Ivy Nicholson

Ivy Nicholson


in Queens, New York
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.

Movies for Ivy Nicholson...

Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
Title: Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
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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The Dead Life
Title: The Dead Life
Released: January 2, 2005
Type: Movie
Former Andy Warhol star Ivy Nicholson make an exclusive statement about life on stage and in the gutter.
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The Loves of Ondine
Title: The Loves of Ondine
Character: Girl on Chair
Released: August 1, 1968
Type: Movie
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.
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Four Stars
Title: Four Stars
Character: Girl on Chair
Released: December 15, 1967
Type: Movie
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 the basement of the now-demolished Wurlitzer Building at 125 West 41st Street 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 directed that two reels be screened simultaneously on top of each other on a single screen, rather than side-by-side.
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I, a Man
Title: I, a Man
Released: August 24, 1967
Type: Movie
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.
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Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Title: Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Character: Self
Released: November 28, 1965
Type: Movie
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.
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Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
Title: Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
Character: Herself
Released: September 3, 1965
Type: Movie
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.
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John and Ivy
Title: John and Ivy
Character: Herself
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A stationary shot of John Palmer and Ivy Nicholson in this tiny apartment.
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Batman Dracula
Title: Batman Dracula
Released: July 1, 1964
Type: Movie
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.
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Couch
Title: Couch
Character: Herself
Released: July 1, 1964
Type: Movie
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.
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Soap Opera
Title: Soap Opera
Released: June 27, 1964
Type: Movie
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.
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Le Paris des mannequins
Title: Le Paris des mannequins
Character: Self - Photographer
Released: October 18, 1963
Type: Movie
A photoshoot on the roofs and in the streets of Paris, under the astonished eyes of the inhabitants.
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A House of Sand
Title: A House of Sand
Character: Priscilla
Released: June 1, 1962
Type: Movie
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.
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Abandoned
Title: Abandoned
Character: Andrea's Girlfriend
Released: September 7, 1955
Type: Movie
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.
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Senso
Title: Senso
Character: Una Patriota (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1954
Type: Movie
A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.
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Sins of Casanova
Title: Sins of Casanova
Character: delatrice amica di Gertrude
Released: December 22, 1954
Type: Movie
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.
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An American in Rome
Title: An American in Rome
Character: Molly's friend
Released: December 10, 1954
Type: Movie
Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in the early '50s Roma. He is completely crazy for everything that comes from the States. He tries to speak American-English (the most funny ever), to wear like he thinks Americans do, to walk like John Wayne, trying to eat cornflakes with ketchup... His life is a complete parody of the real American way of life, which he couldn't ever get.