"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-cam... (Full plot summary below)
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"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.
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| E! OnlineE! StaffAs this entertaining documentary makes clear, the witty, wisecracking, son-of-a-Marine drag queen was an artist in his own right. |
| New York PostLou LumenickThere are several admiring -- and often hilarious -- interviews with an astounding array of Curtis' surviving pals. |
| Orlando SentinelJay BoyarAn affectionate biographical documentary. |
| Newark Star-LedgerStephen Whitty[Curtis'] life fascinates, as colorful as one of the old movies he loved. |
| User ReviewLee HAny man, woman or child who likes glam rock, trashy-on-purpose fashion style, or is gay, a theater actor, or likes Andy Warhol, should see this movie. Jackie was extremely talented, and sources say that Warhol never had an original idea. He got some of them from Jackie. |
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
