Jackie Curtis

Jackie Curtis

Born: February 19, 1947
Died: May 15, 1985
in New York, New York
Jackie Curtis was a pioneer transgender film star, poet, playwright, and Warhol Superstar.

Movies for Jackie Curtis...

Disclosure
Title: Disclosure
Character: (archive footage)
Released: June 19, 2020
Type: Movie
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
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Beautiful Darling
Title: Beautiful Darling
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 2, 2010
Type: Movie
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.
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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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Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Title: Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 5, 2004
Type: Movie
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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The Cockettes
Title: The Cockettes
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 16, 2002
Type: Movie
Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.
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Burroughs: The Movie
Title: Burroughs: The Movie
Character: Self
Released: February 10, 1984
Type: Movie
An exploration of Burroughs’ life story, as told by Burroughs himself along with many of his contemporaries, including Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, Francis Bacon, Herbert Huncke, Patti Smith, Terry Southern, and William Burroughs Jr.
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Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking
Title: Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking
Character: Buddie
Released: April 9, 1981
Type: Movie
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Underground U.S.A.
Title: Underground U.S.A.
Character: The Room-mate
Released: November 6, 1980
Type: Movie
The Sunset Blvd. of underground cinema, and a suitably ambivalent retrospect on the star-game casualties of New York's upper depths, with Patti Astor statuesquely hysterical as a 20-year-old Norma Desmond, made up to recall Edie Sedgwick and surrounded by Warhol's lost children. We've been here before, but without the hindsight: a camera cruise along a hustler's meat-rack, kitchen-talk over cold canned spaghetti, Taylor Mead grimacing in a spastic dance, the silent stud a sullenly passive observer. Mitchell's ear for campy native wit and eye for figures in a loft-scape happily keep at bay the otherwise contagious NY ennui.
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Jesus
Title: Jesus
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Michel Auder’s Jesus – in which underground NY artists and Warhol superstars openly discuss their beliefs. Jesus – which premiered as a screening at The Kitchen in 1980 – mixes documentary elements such as footage of evangelical TV programs, books, cartoons, paintings, and other Jesus related imagery – with performances including Taylor Mead as a priest in the West Village and Florence Lambert playing a crucified Jesus. Also, intercut throughout are surprisingly candid interviews with Auder’s friends, family, and people he approaches on New York City streets about their faith and relationship to the world’s most famous person. Among those interviewed are Diego Cortez, Jackie Curtis, Gerard Malanga, Alice Neel (Andrew Neel’s grandmother), Larry Rivers, and Viva.
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Andy Warhol
Title: Andy Warhol
Character: Self
Released: January 2, 1972
Type: Movie
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.
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Women in Revolt
Title: Women in Revolt
Character: Jackie
Released: December 1, 1971
Type: Movie
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.
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WR: Mysteries of the Organism
Title: WR: Mysteries of the Organism
Character: Jackie Curtis
Released: May 10, 1971
Type: Movie
What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions). His surreal documentary-fiction collision WR: Mysteries of the Organism begins as an investigation into the life and work of controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative of a beautiful young Slavic girl’s sexual liberation.
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The Stone Age
Title: The Stone Age
Character: Richard Nixon
Released: January 31, 1970
Type: Movie
"The question is, it is either going to be a stoned age or a new Stone Age" - Louis Brigante
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Flesh
Title: Flesh
Character: Jackie
Released: December 16, 1968
Type: Movie
A heroin junkie works as a prostitute to support his habit and fund an abortion needed by the girlfriend of his lesbian wife. His seedy encounters with delusional and damaged clients, and dates with drag queens and hustlers are heavy on sex, drugs and decadence.
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The Queen
Title: The Queen
Character: Self
Released: June 17, 1968
Type: Movie
In 1967, New York City is host to the Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant. This documentary takes a look behind the scenes, transporting the viewer into rehearsals and dressing rooms as the drag queen subculture prepares for this big national beauty contest. Jack/Sabrina is the mistress of ceremonies, and their protégé, Miss Harlow, is in the competition. But, as the pageant approaches, the glamorous contestants veer from camaraderie to tension.