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Jackie Curtis (February 19, 1947 – May 15, 1985) was an American actor, writer, singer, and Warhol superstar . Early life and career. Jackie Curtis was born John Curtis Holder Jr. in New York City to John Holder and Jenevive Uglialoro and had one sibling, half-brother Timothy Holder, who is an openly gay Episcopal priest.
Craig Highberger’s documentary portrait, Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis, which opens at New York’s Film Forum this month, takes its title from one of Curtis’s wryly class-conscious self-descriptions.
Oct 22, 2018 · Jackie Curtis was one of Andy Warhol’s Superstars — a somewhat ironic term, to be sure: being an East Village drag performer in the 1960s and 1970s wasn’t a career track that led all that...
Feb 19, 2021 · Jackie Curtis: East Village Superstar, “Pioneer without a Frontier”. Posted February 19, 2021. By Ariel Kates. “I am not a boy, not a girl, I am not gay, not straight, I am not a drag queen, not a transsexual – I am just me, Jackie.”. This wonderful declaration of what Jackie was not leaves so much space to explore who ...
Feb 26, 2024 · Jackie Curtis, the playwright and drag performer best known for her outlandish roles in Warhol films including Flesh and Women in Revolt, wasn’t just a Superstar. Raised in the East Village, where her grandmother ran a notorious dive bar, Jackie grew up in the spotlight, scoring her first off-Broadway role in 1965 at just 17 years old.
Nov 16, 2006 · The first five minutes of my award-winning documentary on the life and legend of Warhol superstar Jackie Curtis. The film is available for theatrical screenings, it is for sale on DVD on eBay...
Nov 23, 2006 · 65. 15K views 17 years ago. This is one of the last video recordings of Jackie Curtis, who died in 1985 of a drug overdose. This bio was written for a collection of Curtis' poems called "Wild...
