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Jackie Curtis (February 19, 1947 – May 15, 1985) was an American actor, writer, singer, and Warhol superstar.
Oct 22, 2018 · Jackie Curtis was one of Andy Warhol’s Superstars — a somewhat ironic term, to be sure: being an East Village drag performer in the 1960s and 1970s wasn’t a career track that led all that...
Feb 19, 2021 · Jackie Curtis made the most of the radical shifts happening downtown in the 1960s, when bohemians escaped rising rents in Greenwich Village by moving eastward. A Lower East Side slum kid…
SUPERSTAR IN A HOUSEDRESS: THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF JACKIE CURTIS. By Amy Taubin. JACKIE CURTIS made brilliant entrances, and although he sometimes overstayed his welcome, his final exit, in 1985 at age thirty-eight, came much too soon. Heroin, to paraphrase Lou Reed, was the death of him.
The film stars Jackie Curtis, Candy Darling, and Holly Woodlawn, three trans women and superstars of Warhol's Factory scene. It also features soundtrack music by John Cale.
Feb 26, 2024 · Jackie Curtis, the playwright and drag performer best known for her outlandish roles in Warhol films including Flesh and Women in Revolt, wasn’t just a Superstar. Raised in the East Village, where her grandmother ran a notorious dive bar, Jackie grew up in the spotlight, scoring her first off-Broadway role in 1965 at just 17 years old.
Actor: Women in Revolt. Jackie's friendship and professional association with Andy Warhol began in the mid-1960s. He appeared in director Paul Morrissey's Women in Revolt (1971) with Candy Darling and Holly Woodlawn and Flesh (1968) with Joe Dallesandro and Candy Darling, presented by Andy Warhol.
Jul 23, 2004 · Of the three major cross-dressing “superstars” who emerged from Andy Warhol’s wild, wild world, Jackie Curtis may be the least celebrated.
Actor: Women in Revolt. Jackie's friendship and professional association with Andy Warhol began in the mid-1960s. He appeared in director Paul Morrissey's Women in Revolt (1971) with Candy Darling and Holly Woodlawn and Flesh (1968) with Joe Dallesandro and Candy Darling, presented by Andy Warhol.
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.
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