Casual acquaintances, the world is full of casual acquaintances.
Sometimes casual acquaintances can produce a serendipitous spark…
It was the director John Huston who first introduced Marilyn Monroe to Truman Capote during the filming of his noir crime-caper The Asphalt Jungle… though Capote had a cultural disdain for the Hollywood machine - like anyone and everyone - he was starstruck, and as many artists before and after - the artist in him recognized the muse in her, immediately…
When Marilyn made the move to Manhattan years later - she had reinvented herself as a student of life - absorbing every piece of culture she could get close to…this included people. While she bettered her craft through a rigorous schedule at The Actor's Studio, rehearsing scenes with the likes of Marlon Brando, she was bewitched by the literati.
In today's episode we explore the unlikely, casual friendship between two lions of industry, two misfits of reinvention that had more in common than some would think…
Thank you to Sherri Marmon at Penguin Random House and Mr. Alan U. Shwartz, Mr. Capote's attorney, friend and Trustee of The Truman Capote Literary Trust, excerpts taken from "A Beautiful Child" in Truman Capote's collection of stories in the book Music for Chameleons is used with permission given by The Truman Capote Literary Trust.