Holly Woodlawn
Also Known As: Ms. Holly Woodlawn
Biography: Holly Woodlawn was a transgender Puerto Rican actress and Warhol superstar who appeared in his movies Trash and Women in Revolt. She was probably best known as the Holly in Lou Reed's hit pop song "Walk on the Wild Side".
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico
Birthday: October 26, 1946
Deathday: December 06, 2015
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Resident Alien
Overview: At age 73, writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp (1908-1999), became an Englishman in New York. Nossiter's camera follows Crisp about the streets of Manhattan, where Crisp seems very much at home, wearing eye shadow, appearing on a makeshift stage, making and repeating wry observations, talking to John Hurt (who played Crisp in the autobiographical TV movie, "The Naked Civil Servant"), and dining with friends. Others who know Crisp comment on him, on his life as an openly gay man with an effeminate manner, and on his place in the history of gays' social struggle. The portrait that emerges is of one wit and of suffering.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-14
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Night Owl
Overview: A vampire in the East Village picks up women, and while having sex with them kills them and drinks their blood. Meanwhile, a young Puerto Rican guy begins searching the Village for his sister, who is one of the vampire's victims.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-30
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This Is America
Overview: Inspired by shock-documentaries like Mondo Cane, this film looks at the wilder side of life in America. Starting off with the bloodier side of the American car culture by showing a series of crashes at race events, the film then goes on to lesser-known sexual practices. Included among these is a porno movie award show, a nude beauty contest, a sex therapy session, and a detailed explanation of where dildos come from.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-01
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Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss
Overview: Billy Collier is a photographer working on a series of pictures featuring recreations of movie kisses, with drag queens playing the female roles. For his male model, he hires Gabriel, a young waiter on whom he has developed a serious crush. While Billy is openly gay, Gabriel says that he is straight and even claims to have a girlfriend. However, as they spend more time together and grow closer, Billy becomes increasingly unsure that this is true.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-24
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Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story
Overview: Seed Money is the story of Chuck Holmes, a San Francisco pornographer turned philanthropist. Holmes helped shaped and create gay identity in the years after Stonewall, and later became a major contributor to gay advocacy groups like the Human Rights Campaign and the LGBT Victory Fund, only to find later in life that while his money was welcome in philanthropic circles, he sometimes wasn't.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-30
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Queer Realities and Cultural Amnesia
Overview: A documentary about queer realities and cultural amnesia.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Scathed
Overview: A truly odd little mood piece, it features Matthew Bell (the narrator of Gregory's Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Shocking Truth) as a guy named Joe who stops off for an afternoon beer at a bar where nudists and weirdos prowl around outside. There he strikes up a difficult conversation with a beautiful but not-very-conversant young woman in an eyepatch who tells him about how she wound up at this hole in the wall, a perverse saga involving an iron-fisted owner named Miss Antonia Curis.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Trash
Overview: The movie follows Joe, a heroin addict, throughout his quest to score more drugs. The episodic plot occurs over a single day and centers on Joe's problematic relationship with his on-off, sexually frustrated girlfriend. During the course of the day, Joe overdoses in front of an upper-class couple, attempts to fool Welfare into approving his methadone treatment by having Holly fake a pregnancy, and frustrates the women in his life with his drug-induced impotence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-05
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The Best of the New York Erotic Film Festival
Overview: A stimulating, hilarious, provocative collection of the best American films dealing with you-know-what. Prize-winning films chosen by judges Gore Vidal, Andy Warhol, Terry Southern, Milos Forman, Holly Woodlawn, Sylvia Miles and Xaviera Hollander at the last two Erotic Film Festivals in New York.
Genres: Fantasy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-25
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Beverly Hills Hustlers
Overview: BIG Video does it again with a release that will give you everything you want in a hardcore ass-banging video! We have assembled brand new, never before seen actors, and again some of them are right off the fashion magazines of New York. If you like new actors fucking and sucking like old pros; then Beverly Hills Hustlers should be added to your collection.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Women in Revolt
Overview: Candy is an aloof heiress caught in an unhappy relationship with her brother. Jackie is a virginal intellectual who believes women are oppressed in contemporary American society. And Holly is a nymphomaniac who has come to loathe men, despite her attraction to them. Together, they join a militant feminist group, P.I.G. (Politically Involved Girls), but their newfound liberation doesn't make them any happier.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-01
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Take Off
Overview: A Don Juan-like playboy doesn't get old, but a stag film of his does in this hardcore riff on The Portrait of Dorian Gray.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Is There Sex After Death?
Overview: Driving through New York City in his Sexmobile, Dr. Harrison Rogers of the Bureau of Sexological Investigation, searches out luminary figures in the world of sex.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-24
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I Am Divine
Overview: Harris Glenn Milstead, aka Divine (1945-1988) was the ultimate outsider turned underground hero. Spitting in the face of the status quos of body image, gender identity, sexuality, and preconceived notions of beauty, Divine succeeded in becoming an internationally recognized icon, recording artist, and character actor of stage and screen. Glenn went from the often-mocked, schoolyard fat kid to underdog royalty, standing up for millions of gay men and women, drag queens and punk rockers, and countless other socially ostracized misfits and freaks. With a completely committed in-your-face style, he blurred the line between performer and personality, and revolutionized pop culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-09
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Beyond Queer: Voices from Bohemia
Overview: Former Warhol Superstar and creator of the seminal sexual politics performance spectacular Bitch!Dyke!Faghag!Whore!, Penny Arcade, washed up on the shores of the Lower East Side of New York as a teenager in 1967. After decades in the Downtown art world, Penny’s personal relationships with dozens of outrageous characters, from the world famous to the fascinatingly obscure, led to the creation of the Lower East Side Biography Project, an oral history of New York’s Bohemian culture from the 1950s to the present. These half-hour biographies have broadcast weekly on Time Warner Manhattan Cable Television for 20 years. Beyond Queer is a feature documentary compiled from these television interviews.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-28
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Andy Warhol
Overview: With a rambling, unstructured style that echoes Andy Warhol’s own approach to filmmaking, this documentary profiles his career, showing him to be a brilliant manipulator, dedicated voyeur and person of astute commercial judgment.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-02
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Bad Marien's Last Year
Overview: Andy Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn teams up with jazz superstar Asha Puthli for a weekend romp in the Hamptons, in which they play two angels rescuing a bored, wayward heiress from herself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-09
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Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers
Overview: An aspiring actress from Kansas comes to New York and meets a host of zany characters.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-16
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Heaven Wants Out
Overview: Once a hot spot, the Bowery Follies Cabaret is now just another broken down New York City nightclub populated with the last vestiges of vaudeville entertainers, misfits and a headliner known as Heaven. She, like the club, has been there too long. In a drunken reverie, she wanders through the lives of the men who watch her sing night after night, looking for love ...trying to make sense of how she got there in the first place, hoping, for a ticket out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-30
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The Sound Of Muzak
Overview: Holly Woodlawn stars along with underground personalities of downtown New York in this adaptation of “the sound of music” by the renowned composer Scott Wittman, presented at limelight April 21, 1986.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-21
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Phantom Pain
Overview: Kristy Nichols is a prostitute with a difference — she is transgender. She decides to make a life change just as a college film professor offers her a part in serious porno film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-22
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Underground and Emigrants
Overview: In this film, outspokenly homosexual filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has documented his encounters with friends in the New York "underground" arts movement, the better-known of whom are William Burroughs (who says nothing for the camera), Andy Warhol (seen in the distance) and Fernando Arrabal (who is interviewed in Spanish). The emigrants named in the title are notable Germans who left the country before World War II, such as Greta Keller and Grete Mosheim. Reviewers at the time of the film's release considered it to have been a sort of paid vacation for the filmmaker rather than a serious effort. (Clarke Fountain, Rovi)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-10-25
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Tally Brown, New York
Overview: Tally Brown, New York is a 1979 documentary film directed, written and produced by Rosa von Praunheim. The film is about the singing and acting career of Tally Brown, a classically trained opera and blues singer who was a star of underground films in New York City and a denizen of its underworld in the late 1960s. In this documentary, Praunheim relies on extensive interviews with Brown, as she recounts her collaboration with Andy Warhol, Taylor Mead and others, as well as her friendships with Holly Woodlawn, and Divine. Brown opens the film with a cover of David Bowie’s “Heroes” and concludes with “Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide.” The film captures not only Tally Brown’s career but also a particular New York milieu in the 1970s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-05-04
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Nelson Sullivan
Overview: Nelson Sullivan, a videographer in Manhattan circa 1983 to 1989, documented a large chunk of the final six years of his life, capturing his days and nights with drag queens and other NYC outcasts of the time. His style takes on a "home movie quality" that captures a lost - and now romanticized - American era in all of its mundane glory.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-03
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She Gone Rogue
Overview: While visiting her Auntie Holly, Darling enters a parallel, dream-like world, where a series of encounters with transfeminine figures (played by Holly Woodlawn, Vaginal Davis, and Flawless Sabrina) explore the complexity of identity politics, gender construction and the edification of affects amid a kaleidoscopic depiction of time and place.
Genres: History Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-02
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Beautiful Darling
Overview: James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her all-too-brief life and career, with a combination of current and vintage interview material, rarely seen archival photos and footage, and extracts from Darling's movies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-02
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Broken Goddess
Overview: Holly Woodlawn is an aimless, lovelorn beauty in this seventies silent short.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-26
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A Look on the Wild Side
Overview: A Cannes red carpet tribute for three iconic protagonists of Warhol's Factory glory days.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Overview: In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's performances and films punctuate interviews with artists, critics, friends and foes to create an engaging portrait of the artist. Widely known for his banned queer erotica film Flaming Creatures, Smith was an innovator and firebrand who influenced artists such as Andy Warhol and John Waters.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-11
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Dust
Overview: DUST is the story of an eccentric family in crisis. Unable to move forward or functionally communicate, three change-averse siblings collide with their older brother and their own myopic worldview with comic and tragic results. The film follows the siblings Lynn, Baker and Margaret Marie as they cope with the news that their oldest brother Coke plans to move into the family home with his new wife, Patty, a woman the other siblings cannot stand. All four siblings find themselves confronted with their inability to cope with life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-29
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Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Overview: Andy Warhol described Jackie Curtis as “A pioneer without a frontier.” In this biographical documentary, Curtis’s co-workers and friends speak of her work and her influence, along with clips from Curtis’s Warhol films as well as never-before-seen footage from her stage shows.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-05
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Bubblegum
Overview: A 16mm narrative short shot in New York with Nick Zedd and Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-19
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Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies
Overview: Anjelica Huston narrates this exploration of the spectacularly dreamlike world of Salvador Dali’s protégé, Steven Arnold, and his strikingly creative and influential body of work filled with occult rituals, Hollywood camp, and surrealist art nouveau whimsy. Taken from more than 70 hours of original and archival footage, including rare scenes of Holly Woodlawn, director Vishnu Dass digs deeply into the decadent countercultural and inspiring life of this unheralded multimedia artist of the queer community.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-21
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Continental
Overview: A stylish and thoughtful examination of the infamous Continental Baths NYC circa 1968-1976. Told by the people who were there.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-10
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Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
Overview: Andy Warhol, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century (who also coined the immortal catchphrase "In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes"), gets the definitive treatment. This film includes a look into his inner circle and examines both his artistic and personal impact on society. From day-glo Marilyns and Elvises to Campbell's Soup cans to the groovy 1960s and '70s, step into the limelight of the Warhol world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-27
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The Cockettes
Overview: Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-16
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Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Overview: Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at both his life and his influence on pop culture. The film provides details about Warhol's upbringing in Pittsburgh and follows his move to New York City, where he found massive success turning pop imagery into art and eventually founded "The Factory," his famed studio and party venue. Among the many notables interviewed are Dennis Hopper, David Hockney, and Roy Lichtenstein.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-18
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Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
Overview: Takes an in-depth look at the lives and times of the people who hung out with Andy Warhol and "worked" at the Silver Factory during the Sixties, making it all click as a new counter-culture arose and began to exert its influence throughout the arts.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Twin Falls Idaho
Overview: Francis and Blake Falls are Siamese twins who live in a neat little room in a rundown hotel. While sharing some organs, Blake is always fit and Francis is very sickly. Into their world comes a young lady, who turns their world upside down. She gets involved with Blake, and convinces the two to attend a Halloween party, where they can pass themselves off as wearing a costume. Eventually Francis becomes really ill, and they have to be separated. They then face the physical and mental strains that come from their proposed separation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-30
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The Matinee Idol
Overview: A Hollywood movie star (played by Ken Ryker) desperately tries to hide the truth about his homosexuality, whilst at the same time having several promiscuous encounters with men.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Holly Woodlawn
Overview: Holly Woodlawn interview, 1973.
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Original Language: en
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