Truman Capote proofread "My Autobiography." It didn't go well.

Capote, Oona, and Charlie at the Manoir

When Chaplin was writing his autobiography he asked Capote, a Swiss neighbor, to read it and tell him what he thought of it. Capote agreed. "So I went to work on it. In pencil," he told Carol Matthau, Oona's best friend. "And I took it down to him. We started to talk about it and Charlie threw me out. 'Get the fuck out of here,' he said. I wanted you to read it. I wanted you to enjoy it. I don't need your opinion." ¹ Among Capote's criticisms was that he didn't like the title "My Autobiography." Chaplin's response: “What’s so good about Breakfast At Tiffany’s? That’s the silliest title I’ve ever heard!” ² Privately, Chaplin liked to imitate Capote's speech when commenting on the autobiography: "That'th not a thententh. It'th not a thententh, and it never will be a thententh." ³

The story goes that best friends Oona, Carol Matthau, and Gloria Vanderbilt were the inspiration for Holly Golightly in Capote's "Breakfast at Tiffany's."

¹Matthau, Among The Porcupines, 1992
²Epstein, Remembering Charlie, 1989

³Saroyan, Trio, 1985