Edward Leffingwell (1941–2014)
Autor(a) de Flaming Creature: The Life and Time of Jack Smith, Artist, Performer, Exotic Consultant
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Obras por Edward Leffingwell
Flaming Creature: The Life and Time of Jack Smith, Artist, Performer, Exotic Consultant (1997) 35 exemplares
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1941-12-03
- Data de falecimento
- 2014-08-05
- Sexo
- male
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 11
- Membros
- 99
- Popularidade
- #191,538
- Avaliação
- 4.2
- Críticas
- 1
- ISBN
- 6
Jack Smith was raised in Texas where he made his first film, Buzzards over Baghdad, in 1952. He moved to New York in 1953.
The most famous (and arguably the most notorious) of Smith's productions is Flaming Creatures (1962). The film is a satire of Hollywood B movies and tribute to actress Maria Montez, who starred in many such productions. However, authorities considered some scenes to be pornographic. Copies of the movie were confiscated at the premiere and it was subsequently banned (technically, it still is to this day). Despite not being viewable, the movie gained some notoriety when footage was screened during Congressional hearings and right-wing politician Strom Thurmond mentioned it in anti-porn speeches.
Smith's next movie Normal Love was the only work in Smith's oeuvre with an almost conventional length (120 mins.), and featured multiple underground stars, including Mario Montez, Diane di Prima, Tiny Tim, Francis Francine, Beverley Grant, John Vaccaro, and others. The rest of his productions consists mainly of short movies, many never screened in a cinema, but featured in performances and constantly re-edited to fit the stage needs (including Normal Love).
Apart from appearing in his own work, Smith worked as an actor. He played the lead in Andy Warhol's unfinished film Batman Dracula, Ken Jacobs's Blonde Cobra, and appeared in several theater productions by Robert Wilson.
He also worked as a photographer and founded the Hyperbole Photographic Studio in New York. In 1962, he released The Beautiful Book, a collection of pictures of New York artists, that was re-released by Granary Books.… (mais)