Francis Francine
Frank di Giovanni, elevator operator, was the first of the Andy Warhol transvestite superstars.
Francine had been intended as the star of Flaming Creatures, 1962, but disappeared partway through filming, leaving Mario Montez the throne.
He was given star treatment in the Andy Warhol/Paul Morrissey film Lonesome Cowboys, 1968, as a the transvestite sheriff. The camera lingers as he puts on drag and makeup. This in a cowboy village partly owned by John Wayne.
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1969
No President
5.3/3
Smith's third feature film was originally titled "The Kidnapping of Wendell Willkie by the Love Bandit," in reaction to the 1968 Presidential Campaign...
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No President
1963
Flaming Creatures
4.6/51
Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously enough with se...
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Flaming Creatures
1963
Normal Love
6.9/9
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Normal Love
2017
Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
0/0
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Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
1968
Lonesome Cowboys
5.2/9
Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse.
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Lonesome Cowboys
1963
Chumlum
6/12
Ron Rice's Chumlum is one of those films in which the conditions of its construction are integral to the experience of watching it. It is a record of...
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Chumlum
1970
Coming Attractions
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“Coming Attractions” looks backward into the memories and forward into the future of Francis Francine, an elegantly dowdy transvestite of, and indeed...
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