The Capote Tapes

Newly discovered interviews with friends of Truman Capote made by Paris Review co-founder George Plimpton invigorate this fascinating documentary on the author (and socialite) behind Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood, while situating Capote in the 20th-century American literary canon.

Documentary

Truman Capote

(Self (archive footage))

George Plimpton

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Kate Harrington

(Self)

Dotson Rader

(Self)

Lauren Bacall

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Sally Quinn

(Self)

John Richardson

(Self, art historian)

Jay McInerney

(Self)

Phoebe Pierce

(Self, Truman Capote's friend (voice) (archive footage))

Barbara Lawrence

(Self, journalist, The New Yorker (voice) (archive footage))

Babs Simpson

(Self, fashion writer, Vogue (voice) (archive footage))

Norman Mailer

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Colm Tóibín

(Self)

Marella Angelli

(Self, Truman Capote's friend (voice) (archive footage))

Jack Dunphy

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Sadie Stein

(Self)

George Axelrod

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Louise Melhado Grunwald

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Gavin Lambert

(self, Truman Capote's friend (voice) (archive footage))

Slim Keith

(self, Truman Capote's friend (voice) (archive footage))

C.Z. Guest

(self, Truman Capote's friend (voice) (archive footage))

Lee Radziwill

(self, Truman Capote's friend (voice) (archive footage))

Babe Paley

(self, Truman Capote's friend (voice) (archive footage))

André Leon Talley

(Self)

Loel Guinness

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Lewis Lapham

(Self)

William F. Buckley Jr.

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Donald Brooks

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Leonora Hornblow

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Candice Bergen

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Dick Cavett

(Self)

Mick Jagger

(Self (archive footage))

Bob Colacello

(Self (archive footage))

Piedy Lumet

(self, Truman Capote's friend (voice) (archive footage))

Kate Paley

(Self, Babe Paley's daughter (voice) (archive footage))

Judy Green

(self, Truman Capote's friend (voice) (archive footage))