Holly Woodlawn

Holly Woodlawn

Nascimento : 1946-10-26, Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico

Morte : 2015-12-06

História

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".

Perfil

Holly Woodlawn

Filmes

Revelação
Holly Sandiago (archive footage)
Neste documentário, nomes influentes da arte e do pensamento transgêneros analisam o impacto de Hollywood na comunidade trans.
Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies
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.
Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story
Self
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.
Continental
Herself
A stylish and thoughtful examination of the infamous Continental Baths NYC circa 1968-1976. Told by the people who were there.
Eu Sou Divine
Herself
Este documentário retrata parte da vida e carreira do excêntrico artista americano Divine (Harris Glenn Mistead, 1945- 1988). Como drag queen, ator e cantor, ele se destacou no universo do espetáculo graças às suas versáteis performances.
Dust
Rita
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.
She Gone Rogue
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.
Beautiful Darling
Self
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.
Heaven Wants Out
Evelyn Morton
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.
Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
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.
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Herself
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.
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Herself
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.
The Cockettes
Self
Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.
A Look on the Wild Side
Herself
A Cannes red carpet tribute for three iconic protagonists of Warhol's Factory glory days.
Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
Herself
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.
Amor em Dobro
Flamboyant at Party
O filme retrata a vida dos tímidos gêmeos siameses Blake e Francis Falls, que moram em um hotel decadente e esperam reencontrar a mãe biológica, que os abandonou. Eles passam a ter um maior contato com o mundo exterior através de uma excêntrica jovem prostituta chamada Penny.
O Beijo Hollywoodiano de Billy
Holly
Billy (Sean Hayes) é um fotógrafo gay que nasceu em uma pequena cidade de Indiana, mas se mudou para Los Angeles, pois só existiam heterossexuais na sua cidade natal, fazendo-o se sentir deslocado. Tendo uma predileção por Polaroids e cansado de ser "a outra", ele se apaixona por Gabriel (Brad Rowe), um garçom que aspira ser músico e, aparentemente, é heterossexual.
Bubblegum
A 16mm narrative short shot in New York with Nick Zedd and Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn.
Phantom Pain
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.
The Matinee Idol
Party Guest
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.
Scathed
Miss Antonia Curtis
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.
Night Owl
Barfly
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.
Resident Alien
Performer / Actor
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.
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Self
Documentary portrait of Andy Warhol.
Nelson Sullivan
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.
The Sound Of Muzak
Maria
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.
Tally Brown, New York
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.
Take Off
Lounge Singer
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.
This Is America
Self (uncredited)
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.
Underground and Emigrants
Self
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)
Broken Goddess
Herself
Holly Woodlawn is an aimless, lovelorn beauty in this seventies silent short.
Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers
Eve Harrington / Rhett Butler
SCARECROW IN A GARDEN OF CUCUMBERS is about an aspiring actress from Kansas who comes to New York and meets a host of zany characters. Warhol Superstar Holly Woodlawn plays both the female lead, “Eve Harrington,” and a male anti-hero, “Rhett Butler.” All of the characters’ names in the film are taken from popular motion pictures and books. Characters included “Mary Poppins,” “Ninotchka,” “Margo Channing,” “Walter Mitty,” “Blanche DuBois,” “Baby and Jane Hudson” (played by twin sisters), “Marjorie Morningstar,” “Joe Buck,” “Noel Airman,” “Ratzo Rizzo,” and “Stanley Kowalski.” The film also has musical numbers that were spoofs of 1930s and 1940s routines choreographed by famed dance director Busby Berkeley. One production number, “The Dusty Rose Hotel,” sung by Tally Brown, paid homage to Judy Garland’s “born-in-a-trunk” sequence in 1954’s A STAR IS BORN. (from: http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?pageID=13&threadID=88881&archive=0)
Andy Warhol
Self
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.
Women in Revolt
Holly
Three women join a militant feminist group, P.I.G. (Politically Involved Girls), but their newfound liberation doesn't make them any happier.
Is There Sex After Death?
Herself
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.
Bad Marien's Last Year
Angel
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.
Lixo
Holly Sandiago
Segundo filme da trilogia de Paul Morrissey e Andy Warhol. Joe (Joe Dallesandro) um rapaz viciado em heroína vive com sua namorada, Holly (Holly Woodlawn), num apartamento minúsculo e abarrotado de lixo em Manhattan. Lixo à que Holly recorre todos os dias para revender e também para mobiliar a casa. Lixo que preenche o vazio e o desespero dos dois. Eles tentam com o governo a adoção de um bebê a fim de se beneficiarem da assistência social. No entanto, apesar dos seus sonhos, o casal parece condenado a permanecer às margens da sociedade, rodeado pelo lixo. Lou Reed imortalizou em música e verso os dois personagens em “Walk on the wild side”.