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Edie Sedgwick

Date of birth: 1943-04-20

Place of birth: Santa Barbara, California, U.S.

Known for: Acting

Also known as: Mazda Isphahan

Biography

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".

Movie Credits

2.7

Ciao! Manhattan

1973-04-19

Fiction and documentary mingle in a freewheeling portrait of Susan Superstar, a New York celebrity o

3.3

Take Your Pills

2018-03-09

In a hypercompetitive world, drugs like Adderall offer students, athletes, coders and others a way t

2.5

Outer and Inner Space

1966-01-14

A 16mm Warhol film of Edie Sedgwick sitting in front of a television monitor on which is playing a p

3.6

Beauty #2

1965-07-17

The movie has a fixed point of view showing a bed with two characters on it, Sedgwick and Piserchio.

Poor Little Rich Girl

1965-06-19

A young, jobless woman stays in bed, reads, talks on the phone, smokes cigarettes, makes fresh coffe

2.3

Vinyl

1965-06-04

Andy Warhol’s screen adaptation of Burgess's "A Clockwork Orange”.

Bitch

1965-01-01

“Andy Warhol called Marie Menken and Willard Maas ‘the last of the great bohemians,’ and, in 1965, m

2.8

Horse

1965-08-28

Warhol plunked a horse named Mighty Byrd in the middle of the Factory for this dark, homoerotic take

Lupe

1966-02-08

Mexican actress Lupe Vélez's final hours as she overdoses on Seconal.

3.1

The Queen

1968-06-17

In 1967, New York City is host to the Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant. This documentary takes

Color Me Shameless

1967-12-29

Made when I was a bit depressed which is nothing new,. Bob Cowan happened to be depressed as well an

3.2

Screen Test: Edie Sedgwick

1965-01-01

Andy directs Edie for a screen test.

Andy Warhol Screen Tests

1965-11-28

The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were

Restaurant

1965-06-28

The film begins with a close-up of a table in a restaurant covered with a checkered cloth, in a comp

3.5

Carol Doda Topless at the Condor

2024-03-22

On a fateful San Francisco night in the early '60s, Condor nightclub performer Carol Doda was lowere

3.8

End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones

2003-01-19

A years-in-the-making documentary on the legendary punk band the Ramones. Through a mixture of archi

Space

1965-09-17

A melange of casual talking, food fights, and folk singing. The film includes Eric Andersen with his

13 Most Beautiful… Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests

2009-04-07

Between 1964 and 1966, Andy Warhol shot nearly 500 Screen Tests, beautiful and revealing portraits o

Velvet Underground's First Public Appearance

2006-11-01

Velvet Underground's first public appearance.

3.3

Kitchen

1966-03-03

Instructed by Warhol to write a vehicle for Edie Sedgwick in a “completely white” setting, scenarist

Andy Makes a Movie

1967-02-22

This pop movie about Warhol includes appearances by Henry Geldzahler, Edie Sedgwick and The Velvet U

Afternoon

1965-10-01

Edie Sedgwick hanging out at her apartment with Ondine and others in an alcohol and amphetamine–fuel

1.5

The Velvet Underground: Psychiatrist's Convention, NYC, 1966

1966-01-14

The Velvet Underground's first public appearance, filmed in Super 8 at a Psychiatrist's Convention,

Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties

1989-01-01

Documentary on Andy Warhol's cinema of the sixties, made for Channel 4 in association with The Facto

Four Stars

1967-12-15

Photographed entirely in color, Four Stars was projected in its complete length of nearly 25 hours (

Poem Posters

1967-05-19

... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson,

Superartist

1967-01-01

Documentarians Juan Drago and Bruce Torbet follow a surprisingly relaxed and open Andy Warhol, at th

Dirt

1965-09-25

Two nuns take a bath, then meet a sailor on the Staten Island Ferry.

Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar

2016-04-14

Warhol Superstar Ultra Violet (Isabelle Colin Dufresne) and Lower East Side Icon Taylor Mead (Poet/A

3.4

Danny Says

2015-03-18

DANNY SAYS is a documentary unveiling the amazing journey of Danny Fields. Fields has played a pivot

2.9

Andy Warhol

1987-06-09

The first major profile of the American Pop Art cult leader after his death in 1987 covers the whole

1.3

Edie: Girl on Fire

2010-01-01

Model, film star, muse, socialite, icon. Edie Sedgwick was the very first "it" girl of the Andy Warh

Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks

1970-01-01

This compilation of Gerard Malanga's short films consists of a collection of extremely rare footage

3.6

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

1990-07-18

Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at

Prison

1965-01-01

Inspired by Bibbe Hansen's experiences in a juvenile detention center.

The Andy Warhol Story

1966-01-01

Andy Warhol (Rene Ricard) invites a friend (Edie Sedgwick) over to his apartment one evening to disc

Screen Test: Edie Sedgwick & Kipp Stagg

1966-10-05

Screen Test of Edie Sedgwick and Kipp Stagg (aka Bima Stagg).

Andy Warhol + Roy Lichtenstein

1966-03-08

This program profiles Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, two of pop art's greatest icons. Back-to-bac

2.8

Chelsea Girls

1966-09-01

Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's mammoth film follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in

Face

1965-12-31

An hour-long close-up of Edie singing along to rock songs, making herself up, and talking.

3.3

Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections

1990-06-01

Jonas Mekas’s intimate diary film spans 1963 to 1990, capturing Andy Warhol alongside friends and co

3.7

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

1968-03-01

Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s Ne

Screen Test [ST310]: Edie Sedgwick

1965-01-01

Begins with a close-up of Edie Sedgwick powdering her face with a powder puff. She is wearing two di

3.6

I Shot Andy Warhol: SCUM Manifesto

2024-03-20

New York, June 3, 1968. Valerie Solanas enters the Factory, Andy Warhol's studio, and fires three sh

Vies et morts d'Andy Warhol

2005-11-25

Icon of pop art, Andy Warhol has marked the 20th century. This film pays tribute to him with the exc

2.5

A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol

2015-08-25

Stephen Smith sets out to discover the real Andy Warhol - in the hour-by-hour detail of his daily li

Screen Test [ST309]: Edie Sedgwick

1965-01-01

Edie Sedgwick, wearing no make up, her eyes wet and swollen as if she had been crying, looks sad for