Holly Woodlawn

Holly Woodlawn

Birthday: 1946-10-26

Place of Birth: Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico

Biography: Holly Woodlawn was a transgender Puerto Rican actress and Warhol superstar who appeared in his movies Trash and Women in Revolt. She was probably best known as the Holly in Lou Reed's hit pop song "Walk on the Wild Side".

Movies

Resident Alien
Resident Alien

At age 73, writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp (1908-1999), became an English...

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Night Owl
Night Owl

A vampire in the East Village picks up women, and while having sex with them kills them and drinks t...

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This Is America
This Is America

Inspired by shock-documentaries like Mondo Cane, this film looks at the wilder side of life in Ameri...

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Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss
Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss

Billy Collier is a photographer working on a series of pictures featuring recreations of movie kisse...

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Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story
Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story

Seed Money is the story of Chuck Holmes, a San Francisco pornographer turned philanthropist. Holmes ...

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Queer Realities and Cultural Amnesia
Queer Realities and Cultural Amnesia

A documentary about queer realities and cultural amnesia....

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Scathed
Scathed

A truly odd little mood piece, it features Matthew Bell (the narrator of Gregory's Texas Chainsaw Ma...

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Trash
Trash

The movie follows Joe, a heroin addict, throughout his quest to score more drugs. The episodic plot ...

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The Best of the New York Erotic Film Festival
The Best of the New York Erotic Film Festival

A stimulating, hilarious, provocative collection of the best American films dealing with you-know-wh...

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Beverly Hills Hustlers
Beverly Hills Hustlers

BIG Video does it again with a release that will give you everything you want in a hardcore ass-bang...

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Women in Revolt
Women in Revolt

Candy is an aloof heiress caught in an unhappy relationship with her brother. Jackie is a virginal i...

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Take Off
Take Off

A Don Juan-like playboy doesn't get old, but a stag film of his does in this hardcore riff on The Pi...

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Is There Sex After Death?
Is There Sex After Death?

Driving through New York City in his Sexmobile, Dr. Harrison Rogers of the Bureau of Sexological Inv...

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I Am Divine
I Am Divine

Harris Glenn Milstead, aka Divine (1945-1988) was the ultimate outsider turned underground hero. Spi...

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Beyond Queer: Voices from Bohemia
Beyond Queer: Voices from Bohemia

Former Warhol Superstar and creator of the seminal sexual politics performance spectacular Bitch!Dyk...

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Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol

With a rambling, unstructured style that echoes Andy Warhol’s own approach to filmmaking, this docum...

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Bad Marien's Last Year
Bad Marien's Last Year

Andy Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn teams up with jazz superstar Asha Puthli for a weekend romp in ...

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Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers
Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers

An aspiring actress from Kansas comes to New York and meets a host of zany characters....

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Heaven Wants Out
Heaven Wants Out

Once a hot spot, the Bowery Follies Cabaret is now just another broken down New York City nightclub ...

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The Sound Of Muzak
The Sound Of Muzak

Holly Woodlawn stars along with underground personalities of downtown New York in this adaptation of...

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Phantom Pain
Phantom Pain

Kristy Nichols is a prostitute with a difference — she is transgender. She decides to make a life ch...

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Underground and Emigrants
Underground and Emigrants

In this film, outspokenly homosexual filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has documented his encounters with...

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Tally Brown, New York
Tally Brown, New York

Tally Brown, New York is a 1979 documentary film directed, written and produced by Rosa von Praunhei...

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Nelson Sullivan
Nelson Sullivan

Nelson Sullivan, a videographer in Manhattan circa 1983 to 1989, documented a large chunk of the fin...

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She Gone Rogue
She Gone Rogue

While visiting her Auntie Holly, Darling enters a parallel, dream-like world, where a series of enco...

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Beautiful Darling
Beautiful Darling

James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known War...

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Broken Goddess
Broken Goddess

Holly Woodlawn is an aimless, lovelorn beauty in this seventies silent short....

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A Look on the Wild Side
A Look on the Wild Side

A Cannes red carpet tribute for three iconic protagonists of Warhol's Factory glory days....

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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Sm...

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Dust
Dust

DUST is the story of an eccentric family in crisis. Unable to move forward or functionally communica...

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

Andy Warhol described Jackie Curtis as “A pioneer without a frontier.” In this biographical document...

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Bubblegum
Bubblegum

A 16mm narrative short shot in New York with Nick Zedd and Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn....

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Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies
Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies

Anjelica Huston narrates this exploration of the spectacularly dreamlike world of Salvador Dali’s pr...

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Continental
Continental

A stylish and thoughtful examination of the infamous Continental Baths NYC circa 1968-1976. Told by ...

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Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture

Andy Warhol, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century (who also coined the immortal c...

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The Cockettes
The Cockettes

Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenom...

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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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Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory

Takes an in-depth look at the lives and times of the people who hung out with Andy Warhol and "worke...

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Twin Falls Idaho
Twin Falls Idaho

Francis and Blake Falls are Siamese twins who live in a neat little room in a rundown hotel. While s...

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The Matinee Idol
The Matinee Idol

A Hollywood movie star (played by Ken Ryker) desperately tries to hide the truth about his homosexua...

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Holly Woodlawn
Holly Woodlawn

Holly Woodlawn interview, 1973....

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Milwaukee, Minnesota
Milwaukee, Minnesota

Having lived his entire life under the watchful eye of his overbearing mother, Albert must fend for ...

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Candy Darling
Candy Darling

Ron Link, Samuel Adams Green, Holly Woodlawn, and Jeremiah Newton delve into Candy Darling’s life, l...

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