FILM 1232: SUPERSTAR IN A
HOUSEDRESS
"Jackie Curtis is not a drag
queen. Jackie is an artist. A pioneer without a frontier." -- Andy Warhol.
Superstar in a Housedress examines the life and legend of Warhol transvestite
superstar Jackie Curtis who was a poet, playwright, performer, and one of the
great personalities of his time. Jackie both lived and performed sometimes as a
man, sometimes as a woman - and died tragically of a drug overdose under
bizarre circumstances when he was only 38. The film features on-camera interviews
with actor Harvey Fierstein who played Jackie's mother in "Americka
Cleopatra" when he was 18, Ellen Stewart, founder of LaMama Experimental
Theater Club, John Vaccaro, founder of the Playhouse of the Ridiculous, Paul
Morrissey, Director of the Andy Warhol films, and surviving superstars Holly
Woodlawn and Joe Dallesandro, plus 24 other friends and colleagues of Jackie's.
The film includes never-before-seen video and film clips of Jackie performing
in stage plays including "Femme Fatale," "Glamour, Glory and
Gold," and "Vain Victory: The Vicissitudes of the Damned." and
cabarets. The music of jazz musician and composer Paul Serrato is featured, as
is the photography of Jack Mitchell who took more photographs of Curtis and the
Warhol crowd than any other professional. Interviews with media personalities,
writers and editors put the work and life of Jackie Curtis in historical
perspective. Narrated by Lily Tomlin.
- Written by Craig
Highberger
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