Edie Sedgwick

Acting

Edie Sedgwick

Born April 20, 1943 · Santa Barbara, California, U.S.

Died November 16, 1971 · aged 28

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".

Known For

I Shot Andy Warhol: SCUM ManifestoI Shot Andy Warhol: SCUM Manifesto · 2024
I Shot Andy Warhol: SCUM Manifesto
★ 7.32024
MovieDocumentaryHistory
New York, June 3, 1968. Valerie Solanas enters the Factory, Andy Warhol's studio, and fires three shots at him, who miraculously survives, but is seriously wounded. What led this woman to try to kill the famous pop artist, as well as to write a manifesto calling for the eradication of men?
Andy Warhol, FluorescentAndy Warhol, Fluorescent · 2016
Andy Warhol, Fluorescent
★ 5.02016
MovieDramaDocumentary
A documentary on the legendary creator and victim of pop art. Warhol, revolutionary and controversial, was never afraid to break the mold and reshape the reals of art, advertising, and directing. But who was the real man being behind the colors in which he hid?
Andy Warhol's AmericaAndy Warhol's America · 2022
Andy Warhol's America
★ 8.02022
MovieDocumentary
A pioneering artist and cultural icon. His work is a history of 20th-century America. A country reinventing itself - as seen through the legendary artist's eyes.
13 Most Beautiful Women13 Most Beautiful Women · 1964
13 Most Beautiful Women
★ 8.01964
MovieDocumentary
Ciao! ManhattanCiao! Manhattan · 1973
Ciao! Manhattan
★ 5.51973
MovieDocumentaryDrama
Fiction and documentary mingle in a freewheeling portrait of Susan Superstar, a New York celebrity on a drug-fueled downward slide that mirrors Edie Sedgwick’s own self-destructive spiral.
Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver FactoryAndy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory · 2008
Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
★ 2.92008
MovieDocumentary
Takes an in-depth look at the lives and times of the people who hung out with Andy Warhol and "worked" at the Silver Factory during the Sixties, making it all click as a new counter-culture arose and began to exert its influence throughout the arts.
Poor Little Rich GirlPoor Little Rich Girl · 1965
Poor Little Rich Girl
★ 6.21965
MovieDramaDocumentary
A young, jobless woman stays in bed, reads, talks on the phone, smokes cigarettes, makes fresh coffee, and tries on some clothes from a large wardrobe.
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY UndergroundBarbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground · 2018
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
2018
MovieDocumentary
The 29-minute experimental film Christmas on Earth caused a sensation when it first screened in New York City in 1964. Its orgy scenes, double projections and overlapping images shattered artistic conventions and announced a powerful new voice in the city's underground film scene. All the more remarkable, that vision belonged to a teenager, 18-year-old Barbara Rubin. A Zelig of the '60s, she introduced Andy Warhol to the Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan to Kabbalah and bewitched Allen Ginsberg. The same unbridled creativity that inspired her to make films when women simply didn't, saw her breach yet another male domain, Orthodox Judaism, before her mysterious death at 35. Lifelong friend Jonas Mekas saved all her letters, creating a rich archive that filmmaker Chuck Smith carefully sculpts into this fascinating portrait of a nearly forgotten artist. An avante-garde maverick, a rebel in a man's world, Barbara Rubin regains her rightful place in film history.

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Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY UndergroundBarbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground · 2018
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
2018
MovieDocumentary
The 29-minute experimental film Christmas on Earth caused a sensation when it first screened in New York City in 1964. Its orgy scenes, double projections and overlapping images shattered artistic conventions and announced a powerful new voice in the city's underground film scene. All the more remarkable, that vision belonged to a teenager, 18-year-old Barbara Rubin. A Zelig of the '60s, she introduced Andy Warhol to the Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan to Kabbalah and bewitched Allen Ginsberg. The same unbridled creativity that inspired her to make films when women simply didn't, saw her breach yet another male domain, Orthodox Judaism, before her mysterious death at 35. Lifelong friend Jonas Mekas saved all her letters, creating a rich archive that filmmaker Chuck Smith carefully sculpts into this fascinating portrait of a nearly forgotten artist. An avante-garde maverick, a rebel in a man's world, Barbara Rubin regains her rightful place in film history.