Poor Little Rich Girl - Edie Sedgwick - Part 5/7

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Poor Little Rich Girl Part 5/7

BW/Sound/66 mins at 24 fps
Edie Sedgwick and Chuck Wein (off screen)
(filmed March-April 1965)

Andy Warhol:

"Whatever anyone may have thought, the truth is I never gave Edie a drug, ever. Not even one diet pill. Nothing. She certainly was taking a lot of amphetamine and downs, but she certainly wasn't getting them from me. She was getting them from that doctor who was shooting up every Society lady in town." (POP108)


Poor Little Rich Girl was originally conceived as part of a series of films featuring Edie Sedgwick which Warhol started shooting in March 1965 called The Poor Little Rich Girl Saga. It included Restaurant, Face, and Afternoon, as well as this film. The title is the same as a 1936 movie starring Shirley Temple who Andy idolized in his childhood. (FAW20)

The film takes place in Edie's apartment. Andy and Gerard shot two rolls (approx. 70 mins) of Edie as "she lay on her bed, talked on the phone and walked around her room, showing off her clothes and describing how she had spent her entire inheritance in six months." (L&D221)

When the rolls were processed, they were completely out of focus because of a problem with the camera lens. They re-shot the two long takes, adding it to the first reel so that the first 33 minutes of the film are completely out of focus as Edie wakes up, orders coffee and orange juice, smokes cigarettes does her excercises, takes pills and puts on make-up - all done in silence, except for the background music of an Everly Brothers album.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Poor
• Little
• Rich
• Girl
• Edie
• Sedgwick
• Andy
• Warhol
• Factory
• Chuck
• Wein
• 1965

[sarahreddy]

I feel chic just watching these

[blackjakko]

who is talking to her? it's so weird watching this, it's like it's happening right now. It's like she's alive and talking and living and about to go to dinner. Film and our experience of it is so odd, that it creates this sense of life, when this was filmed many years ago and she is sadly gone.

[BryantFinlay]

@tomthefunky have some respect for the dead

[tomthefunky]

@MowgliX A "moral purity"??? Are you joking? She used to suck cock for smack. If she was "morally pure", I'm a fucking saint.

[jodahoe08]

@blackjakko It's her friend Chuck talking to her.

[MowgliX]

Ohhh, her reaction at 07:08...! One of many, many priceless things about this and other Edie clips!!!!

[MowgliX]

@Tam28ish That's so right. Edie had a very appealing naivety, a moral purity and a straightforward honesty and directness. How can you not love a girl like that? But yes, she was very careless about her money and her life in general, including her own safety and health.

[MowgliX]

@natanielcostard Yes, absolutely. You's so right!

[natanielcostard]

It´s "Big Brother", 1965 version.

[Tam28ish]

@woobia Of course no one should want to be a bulimic drug addict who spends all their money on clothes and jewellry. However, there is something very admirable about her. Her entire family was fucked up beyond belief, and horrifying things happened to her all the time, and everyone she trusted hurt her, and yet she insisted on maintaining that sweet outlook on everything. Perhaps that was her naivete, but perhaps she made a conscious decision not to turn into a cunt.

[shnookie123]

@blackjakko It`s supposedly Andy Warhol. He loved to film Edie and others just doing regular things, like sleeping.