The Capote Tapes

Discover the real Truman Capote through unheard interviews…

A portrait of the brilliant American writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and the New York high society of his time.

Documentary History

Dick Cavett

Kate Harrington

Lewis Lapham

André Leon Talley

Jay McInerney

Sally Quinn

Dotson Rader

John Richardson

Sadie Stein

Colm Tóibín

Stephen Mitchell

(Voiceover (voice))

George Plimpton

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Truman Capote

(Self (archive footage))

Lauren Bacall

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Johnny Carson

(Self (archive footage))

Phoebe Pierce

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Barbara Lawrence

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Babs Simpson

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Nancy Ryan

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Norman Mailer

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Marie Bellocq

(Self (archive footage))

Marella Angelli

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Jack Dunphy

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

George Axelrod

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Louise Melhado Grunwald

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Gavin Lambert

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Slim Keith

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

C. Z. Guest

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Lee Radziwill

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Loel Guinness

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Harper Lee

(Self (archive footage))

William F. Buckley Jr.

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Donald Brooks

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Leonora Hornblow

(Self (archive footage))

Candice Bergen

(Self (archive footage))

Groucho Marx

(Self (archive footage))

Mick Jagger

(Self (archive footage))

Alvin Adams Dewey

(Self (archive footage))

Piedy Lumet

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Kate Paley

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Judy Green

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Bob Colacello

(Self (voice) (archive footage))