Sometime during the halfhour between speaking to hermotherandDavid's arrival Ziggy hanged herself, and itstill isnotclearwhethersheintended David to find her in time or not.
It also highlighted an offer letter he wrote to Austrian actor Oskar Werner for the title role in the film and a "very polite hand-written inability letter" from Audrey Hepburn, in which she said she had decided not to work for a while, but asked if he would consider her "again sometime".