Ivy Nicholson
Also Known As: Irene Nicholson
Biography: Ivy Nicholson was born Irene Nicholson in Queens, New York to working class Irish Catholic parents. She started modeling at the age of 16, and became very successful, gracing the covers of Vogue and Elle. In those days there was not much in the way of work for older models, so when she turned 30, Ivy sought out acting roles, eventually landing in Andy Warhol's Factory.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Queens, New York
Birthday: Not available
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Senso
Overview: A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-30
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Le Paris des mannequins
Overview: A photoshoot on the roofs and in the streets of Paris, under the astonished eyes of the inhabitants.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-10-18
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I, a Man
Overview: Morrissey and Warhol's commercial take on the Swedish film I, A Woman. Somebody suggested to Warhol that they wanted a sexploitation film in the vein of I, A Woman, and so he and Morrissey concocted I, A Man. They created the story of this male hustler who talks with and sleeps with a series of women over the course of the film. The women are: a young woman who worries about parental acceptance of her sexuality, a woman who is on a couch, a woman with whom he does a seance, a woman who speaks French, a lesbian, and a married woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-24
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Sins of Casanova
Overview: 1760 Spain provides the setting for Giacomo Casanova's romantic escapades, every woman he encounters unable to resist his disarming charm, be they single, engaged, or even married.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-22
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Abandoned
Overview: A group of rich young intellectuals hiding from the war in rural Italy play at being partisans when some disbanded soldiers and some refugees ask them for shelter in their villa. The young and aristocratic Andrea strikes up a friendship with a peasant girl, Lucia. Then the Germans suddenly appear, looking for the real partisans, and the time comes for serious decisions.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-09-07
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Four Stars
Overview: Photographed entirely in color, Four Stars was projected in its complete length of nearly 25 hours (allowing for projection overlap of the 35-minute reels) only once, at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque in New York City. The imagery in the film is dense, wearying and beautiful, but ultimately hard to decipher, for, in contrast to his earlier, and more famous film Chelsea Girls, made in 1966, Warhol insisted that two reels be screened simultaneously on top of each other on a single screen, rather than side-by-side. The film's title is a pun on the rating system used by critics to rank films, with "four stars" being the highest rating. From Wikipedia.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-15
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The Loves of Ondine
Overview: Ondine is a gay man attempting to re-adjust his sexuality via various encounters with different women. After trying his luck with three women, Ondine becomes a background character in a sequence in which a group of Latin American men, calling themselves The Bananas, engage in a food fight. Ondine then engages in a wrestling match with Joe Dallesandro, who is married to Brigid Berlin.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-01
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Soap Opera
Overview: Soap Opera, starring Baby Jane Holzer and Lester Persky, among Factory regulars, intercuts television commercials of its day with silent domestic scenes shot by Warhol.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-27
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The Dead Life
Overview: Former Andy Warhol star Ivy Nicholson make an exclusive statement about life on stage and in the gutter.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-02
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Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
Overview: In 1964 Film Culture magazine chose Andy Warhol for its annual Independent Film award. The plan was to show some of Andy's films and have Andy come on stage and hand him the award. Andy said, no, he didn't want a public presentation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-09-03
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Couch
Overview: The couch at Andy Warhol's Factory was as famous in its own right as any of his Superstars. In Couch, visitors to the Factory were invited to "perform" on camera, seated on the old couch. Their many acts-both lascivious and mundane-are documented in a film that has come to be regarded as one of the most notorious of Warhol's early works. Across the course of the film we encounter such figures as poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, the writer Jack Kerouac, and perennial New York figure Taylor Mead.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-01
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Batman Dracula
Overview: Batman Dracula is a 1964 black and white American film produced and directed by Andy Warhol, without the permission of DC Comics. The film was screened only at Warhol's art exhibits. A fan of the Batman series, Warhol made the movie as a homage. Batman Dracula is considered to be the first film featuring a blatantly campy Batman. The film was thought to have been lost until scenes from it were shown at some length in the documentary Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-01
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A House of Sand
Overview: An unsure American girl finds love in Paris, in spite of being repulsed by an assault as a child, and is able to overcome it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-01
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Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Overview: The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film at 24 frames per second. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in 'slow motion' at 16 frames per second.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-28
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John and Ivy
Overview: A stationary shot of John Palmer and Ivy Nicholson in this tiny apartment.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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An American in Rome
Overview: Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome obsessed with all-things American.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-10
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Batman Dracula – “Ivy and Blood”
Overview: One of four finished Batman Dracula shorts shown publicly by Warhol.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-01
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