Film

Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis

He was a celebrated playwright and poet. A pioneer in 1960's experimental film and theater. A Warhol superstar. He lived, and performed... sometimes as a man, sometimes as a woman.

2.6

1h 35m

2004

“He was a celebrated playwright and poet. A pioneer in 1960's experimental film and theater. A Warhol superstar. He lived, and performed... sometimes as a man, sometimes as a woman.”

Synopsis

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.