This is either highly depressing or highly heartening, depending on where you stand on today's whole celebrity-Photoshop controversy: Back when Breakfast at Tiffany's was released, in 1961, someone at the studio thought Audrey Hepburn, then 32, needed a little smoothing over in some of the publicity stills from the movie. In a never-before-released image -- which appears in a new coffee-table book celebrating the film's 50th anniversary -- a close-up of the actress's face is marked up where retouchers went to town. Whether her faint crows'-feet and slight discoloration around the nose actually warranted airbrushing -- or whether any flaw, on anyone, ever, needs erasing -- is up for debate.
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