[ANDY WARHOL FILM] Andy Warhol Presents Mario Montez as Har

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[ANDY WARHOL--FILM]

Andy Warhol Presents Mario Montez as Harlot.
Letterpress flyer on light blue paper. 280x216 mm; 11x8½ inches. 1965.

A broadside for Warhol's first film with sound, starring Mario Montez dressed in drag as Jean Harlot lounging on a couch with Carol Koshinskie, the former eating banana after banana. Kneeling behind the couch were Gerard Malanga and Philip Fagan--with off-camera dialogue by Harry Fainlight, Billy Linich (aka Billy Name), and playwright Ronald Tavel (who "wrote" the screenplay). Scarce.

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The Garrick Cinema, a movie house once located on Bleecker Street in NYC's Greenwich Village, was known for a time as the New Andy Warhol Garrick Cinema, not because Warhol owned it--he did not--but because he premiered many of his films there, including Blue Movie (1969), Flesh (1968), Lonesome Cowboys (1968), and Loves of Ondine (1967). Warhol's film Harlot (1964) premiered not in the Garrick, but in the large basement below the theater, occupied by the Café Au Go Go nightclub, where numerous legends from the worlds of comedy and music performed, including George Carlin, the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Howlin' Wolf, and The Doors. The building was demolished during the 1970s.