edie sedgwick discusses party.

edie is invited to a transcontinental party during fone call.

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Film & Animation

Tags:

• experimental
• nyc
• 1965
• andy
• warhol
• velvet
• underground
• superstar
• poor
• little
• rich
• girl
• pop
• art
• psychedelic

[MowgliX]

Imagine Edie in Barbarella? I mean Jane Fonda did a fine job, but Edie is Edie...

[desertshore]

@MowgliX ahhh that woulda been awesome, she coulda rocked those tiny space costumes. wonder how often her name crossed the studio heads' lips, before they quashed the idea of casting her, due to the warhol association? madonna said warren beatty, @ the time, crossed paths w/Edie.

[MowgliX]

Every single thought that goes through her mind is instantly reflected as a facial expression or some body movement. Super sensitive! I adore her, I think she was beyond belief. She could have been a major star if she hadn't been so terribly inundated by heavy drugs. But it is doubtful she would have survived in Hollywood anyway. After all, other sensitive people like Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Judy Garland and James Dean didn't really manage very well.

[xXPinkGoddessXx]

@MowgliX "Every single thought that goes through her mind is instantly reflected as a facial expression or some body movement."

That's a fantastic way of putting it! Reminds me of Andy saying that anything Edie did, even just a movement inside her eye, was fascinating to watch. For all of the problems Edie was cursed with, she sure was blessed in some respects. It's just a shame she couldn't really appreciate any of it.

[desertshore]

@xXPinkGoddessXx i think she could appreciate her gifts, but couldn't "harness" them.

[desertshore]

@MowgliX Hollywood REALLY dropped the ball when they belittled her during interviews. imagine if she had had the opportunity to do a few "BIG" movies ("Rosemary's Baby" woulda been perfect for her i.m.o.) - of course she woulda had to put her "friends" on hold, which i tseems she wasn't willing to do @ the time :(

[jadebrush]

Self-centred yes, that's true - but you have to understand the world she came from. She had no concept of reality. And certainly she was very loving to those she cared for -from Bob Dylan -who cruelly led her to believe they had a relationship - and then got married in secret, to her brothers Minty and Bobby - who both died suddenly. She was broken. It really isn't fair to judge. Nobody could recover from an upbringing like hers. A mixture of unbelievable privilege and unbelievable abuse.

[Moniqueee15]

Amazing video, it really captures her glamour.

[MowgliX]

@desertshore Yeahhh! Rosemary's Baby, my all time favorite! Just imagine Edie in that one...

[MowgliX]

@desertshore Yeah, Warren said to Madonna that Edie once turned up in a see-through raincoat, and nothing on under it. :) Hard to believe, though. But she did wear a fur coat and just leotards and a bra underneath sometimes... Whey you are that dazzlingly beautiful, you can get away with that sort of behavior.

[MowgliX]

@desertshore Well, imagine Edie is super tight sci-fi costumes!!! By 1968, Edie was more of less a real space alien anyway. But she is so adorable in this clip from 1965.

[circethesorceress]

she's a swan. i <3 edie in every possible way.

[MowgliX]

@xXPinkGoddessXx My mother is almost the same age as Edie: mom was born on March 22, 1942 and Edie on April 20, 1943. I wonder what Sigmund Freud would have to say about my fascination for Edie! :D

[xXPinkGoddessXx]

@MowgliX Haha, I wasn't four years old until about three decades later, so I can't comment based on experience either! I agree the fact that Edie's rise and fall was so quick and fleeting has a lot do with our fascination of her.

[xXPinkGoddessXx]

@MowgliX I agree in respect to Audrey's portrayal, which why I said it is Capote's Holly (who herself was very rebellious and considered improper) who shares many parallels to Edie. Unlike the film version, the book has Holly running away as a 'wild thing' and leaving New York and its inhabitants forever mystified.

[MowgliX]

@xXPinkGoddessXx Andy Warhol wrote that he could never figure out if so many things happened in the 1960s because everybody were on speed, and rarely slept, or if people took speed because so many things were happening all the time and they needed to stay up... Everything happened so fast and was over so quickly. But I was only 4 years old when the 1960s were over, so what do I know?

[MowgliX]

@xXPinkGoddessXx I happened to see Breakfast At Tiffany's, the 1961 movie, about two months ago. That's a real classic, and very very elegant. Audrey Hepburn had the same level of refinement as Edie, and it's more than likely Edie and Andy were influenced by it. But Edie was a lot more decadent and rebellious than Audrey, who was a proper English-Dutch lady. Edie had a very similar townhouse at 16 East 63rd Street as Audrey's character, but was too heavily into drugs to really function.

[xXPinkGoddessXx]

@MowgliX Have you ever thought about Edie as Holly in Breakfast At Tiffany's? The film version doesn't remind me much of her, but it's astonishing how much Capote's original Holly has in common with Edie, even down to her age and physical appearance. I think in some ways the 'Poor Little Rich Girl Saga' was Warhol's adaptation of Breakfast At Tiffany's.