Edie Sedgwick

Edie Sedgwick

Birthday: 1943-04-20

Place of Birth: Santa Barbara, California, U.S.

Biography: Edith Minturn Sedgwick was an American actress and fashion model. She is best known for being one of Andy Warhol's superstars. Sedgwick became known as "The Girl of the Year" in 1965 after starring in several of Warhol's short films in the 1960s. She was dubbed an "It Girl", while Vogue magazine also named her a "Youthquaker".

Movies

Ciao! Manhattan
Ciao! Manhattan

Fiction and documentary mingle in a freewheeling portrait of Susan Superstar, a New York celebrity o...

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Take Your Pills
Take Your Pills

In a hypercompetitive world, drugs like Adderall offer students, athletes, coders and others a way t...

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Outer and Inner Space
Outer and Inner Space

A 16mm Warhol film of Edie Sedgwick sitting in front of a television monitor on which is playing a p...

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Beauty #2
Beauty #2

The movie has a fixed point of view showing a bed with two characters on it, Sedgwick and Piserchio....

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Poor Little Rich Girl
Poor Little Rich Girl

A young, jobless woman stays in bed, reads, talks on the phone, smokes cigarettes, makes fresh coffe...

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Vinyl
Vinyl

Andy Warhol’s screen adaptation of Burgess's "A Clockwork Orange”....

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Bitch
Bitch

“Andy Warhol called Marie Menken and Willard Maas ‘the last of the great bohemians,’ and, in 1965, m...

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Horse
Horse

Warhol plunked a horse named Mighty Byrd in the middle of the Factory for this dark, homoerotic take...

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Lupe
Lupe

Mexican actress Lupe Vélez's final hours as she overdoses on Seconal....

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The Queen
The Queen

In 1967, New York City is host to the Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant. This documentary takes ...

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Color Me Shameless
Color Me Shameless

Made when I was a bit depressed which is nothing new,. Bob Cowan happened to be depressed as well an...

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Screen Test: Edie Sedgwick
Screen Test: Edie Sedgwick

Andy directs Edie for a screen test....

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Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Andy Warhol Screen Tests

The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were...

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Restaurant
Restaurant

The film begins with a close-up of a table in a restaurant covered with a checkered cloth, in a comp...

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Carol Doda Topless at the Condor
Carol Doda Topless at the Condor

On a fateful San Francisco night in the early '60s, Condor nightclub performer Carol Doda was lowere...

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End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones
End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones

A years-in-the-making documentary on the legendary punk band the Ramones. Through a mixture of archi...

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Space
Space

A melange of casual talking, food fights, and folk singing. The film includes Eric Andersen with his...

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13 Most Beautiful… Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests
13 Most Beautiful… Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests

Between 1964 and 1966, Andy Warhol shot nearly 500 Screen Tests, beautiful and revealing portraits o...

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Velvet Underground's First Public Appearance
Velvet Underground's First Public Appearance

Velvet Underground's first public appearance....

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Kitchen
Kitchen

Instructed by Warhol to write a vehicle for Edie Sedgwick in a “completely white” setting, scenarist...

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Andy Makes a Movie
Andy Makes a Movie

This pop movie about Warhol includes appearances by Henry Geldzahler, Edie Sedgwick and The Velvet U...

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Afternoon
Afternoon

Edie Sedgwick hanging out at her apartment with Ondine and others in an alcohol and amphetamine–fuel...

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The Velvet Underground: Psychiatrist's Convention, NYC, 1966
The Velvet Underground: Psychiatrist's Convention, NYC, 1966

The Velvet Underground's first public appearance, filmed in Super 8 at a Psychiatrist's Convention, ...

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Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties
Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties

Documentary on Andy Warhol's cinema of the sixties, made for Channel 4 in association with The Facto...

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Four Stars
Four Stars

Photographed entirely in color, Four Stars was projected in its complete length of nearly 25 hours (...

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Poem Posters
Poem Posters

... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, ...

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Superartist
Superartist

Documentarians Juan Drago and Bruce Torbet follow a surprisingly relaxed and open Andy Warhol, at th...

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Dirt
Dirt

Two nuns take a bath, then meet a sailor on the Staten Island Ferry....

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Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar
Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar

Warhol Superstar Ultra Violet (Isabelle Colin Dufresne) and Lower East Side Icon Taylor Mead (Poet/A...

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Danny Says
Danny Says

DANNY SAYS is a documentary unveiling the amazing journey of Danny Fields. Fields has played a pivot...

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Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol

The first major profile of the American Pop Art cult leader after his death in 1987 covers the whole...

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Edie: Girl on Fire
Edie: Girl on Fire

Model, film star, muse, socialite, icon. Edie Sedgwick was the very first "it" girl of the Andy Warh...

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Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks
Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks

This compilation of Gerard Malanga's short films consists of a collection of extremely rare footage ...

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Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at ...

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Prison
Prison

Inspired by Bibbe Hansen's experiences in a juvenile detention center....

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The Andy Warhol Story
The Andy Warhol Story

Andy Warhol (Rene Ricard) invites a friend (Edie Sedgwick) over to his apartment one evening to disc...

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Screen Test: Edie Sedgwick & Kipp Stagg
Screen Test: Edie Sedgwick & Kipp Stagg

Screen Test of Edie Sedgwick and Kipp Stagg (aka Bima Stagg)....

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Andy Warhol + Roy Lichtenstein
Andy Warhol + Roy Lichtenstein

This program profiles Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, two of pop art's greatest icons. Back-to-bac...

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Chelsea Girls
Chelsea Girls

Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's mammoth film follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in ...

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Face
Face

An hour-long close-up of Edie singing along to rock songs, making herself up, and talking....

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Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections

Jonas Mekas’s intimate diary film spans 1963 to 1990, capturing Andy Warhol alongside friends and co...

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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s Ne...

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Screen Test [ST310]: Edie Sedgwick
Screen Test [ST310]: Edie Sedgwick

Begins with a close-up of Edie Sedgwick powdering her face with a powder puff. She is wearing two di...

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I Shot Andy Warhol: SCUM Manifesto
I Shot Andy Warhol: SCUM Manifesto

New York, June 3, 1968. Valerie Solanas enters the Factory, Andy Warhol's studio, and fires three sh...

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Vies et morts d'Andy Warhol
Vies et morts d'Andy Warhol

Icon of pop art, Andy Warhol has marked the 20th century. This film pays tribute to him with the exc...

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A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol

Stephen Smith sets out to discover the real Andy Warhol - in the hour-by-hour detail of his daily li...

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Screen Test [ST309]: Edie Sedgwick
Screen Test [ST309]: Edie Sedgwick

Edie Sedgwick, wearing no make up, her eyes wet and swollen as if she had been crying, looks sad for...

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