Francis Francine

Francis Francine

Frank di Giovanni, elevator operator, was the first of the Andy Warhol transvestite superstars. Francine had been intended as the star of Flaming Creatures, 1962, but disappeared partway through filming, leaving Mario Montez the throne. He was given star treatment in the Andy Warhol/Paul Morrissey film Lonesome Cowboys, 1968, as a the transvestite sheriff. The camera lingers as he puts on drag and makeup. This in a cowboy village partly owned by John Wayne.

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Francis Francine Movies

  • 1963
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    Flaming Creatures
    Flaming Creatures

    4.7 1963 HD

    Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously...

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  • 1969
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    No President
    No President

    5.3 1969 HD

    Smith's third feature film was originally titled "The Kidnapping of Wendell Willkie by the Love Bandit," in reaction to the 1968 Presidential...

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  • 1963
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    Normal Love
    Normal Love

    7 1963 HD

    The feature length Normal Love is Jack Smith’s follow up to his now legendary film Flaming Creatures. This vivid, full-color homage to B-movies...

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  • 2017
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    Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
    Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith

    1 2017 HD

    In his essay film, Jerry Tartaglia, longtime archivist and restorer of the film estate of queer New York underground, experimental film, and...

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  • 1968
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    Lonesome Cowboys
    Lonesome Cowboys

    4.8 1968 HD

    Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse.

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  • 1963
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    Chumlum
    Chumlum

    6 1963 HD

    Ron Rice's Chumlum is one of those films in which the conditions of its construction are integral to the experience of watching it. It is a record of...

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  • 1970
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    Coming Attractions
    Coming Attractions

    1 1970 HD

    “Coming Attractions” looks backward into the memories and forward into the future of Francis Francine, an elegantly dowdy transvestite...

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