Francis Francine

Francis Francine

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Biography: 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.

Movies

No President
No President

Smith's third feature film was originally titled "The Kidnapping of Wendell Willkie by the Love Band...

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Flaming Creatures
Flaming Creatures

Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” ...

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Normal Love
Normal Love

The feature length Normal Love is Jack Smith’s follow up to his now legendary film Flaming Creatures...

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Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith

In his essay film, Jerry Tartaglia, longtime archivist and restorer of the film estate of queer New ...

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Lonesome Cowboys
Lonesome Cowboys

Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez...

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Chumlum
Chumlum

Ron Rice's Chumlum is one of those films in which the conditions of its construction are integral to...

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Coming Attractions
Coming Attractions

“Coming Attractions” looks backward into the memories and forward into the future of Francis Francin...

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