he had a magnetic effect on Hollywood's luscious young actresses. Velez was linked romantically to a number of Hollywood actors, including Gary Cooper. The only concessions to the narrative premise of the film are the 100-foot silent shots spliced on the end of each reel, which show Edie slouched on a bathroom floor with her head in the toilet." (FAW24) Warhol's camera documents all of this in a fairly straightforward manner, occasionally abandoning the action of the film to pan slowly up to the high molded ceilings, as if gazing in awe at its elegant surroundings. the film shows Edie engaged in what might have been the regular activities of her life - listening to music, dancing, playing with a kitten, taking pills, eating supper, waking up in the morning, putting on her makeup, getting a haircut from Billy Name, and so on. In particular." (POP127) The film was based on the suicide of the Mexican actress/singer Lupe Velez who appeared in a number of films, often billed as the "Mexican Spitfire." After making one film titled Mexican Spitfire in 1940, she then went on to make entire series of "Spitfire" films including Mexican Spitfire Out West (1940), Mexican Spitfire's Baby (1941), Mexican Spitfire at Sea (1941), Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost (1942), Mexican Spitfire's Elephant (1942) and Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event (1943).Īs Callie Angell noted in the Films of Andy Warhol (Part II), although Warhol's movie took Velez as its inspiration, it actually featured Edie "simply acting as herself."Ĭallie Angell ( Films of Andy Warhol (Part II)): With Lower East side types - she seemed to adore the drug-related writers Panna is described in POPism as "a hostess of the sixties who put uptown intellectuals together Lupe was shot in Panna Grady's apartment in the old Dakota building. When Andy arrived, although he did astonish me that evening by asking, 'Whenĭo you think Edie will commit suicide? I hope she lets me know so I can Script I was working on and Edie said innocently, 'Oh, we already filmed When I got there Edie was at a table with a fuzzy-haired blondīob Dylan whose shiny black limousine was parked outside. I met Edie at the Kettle of Fish on MacDougal Street to talk over Spitfire, found dead in her Hollywood hacienda with her head in a toiletīowl. Of Lupe Velez for Edie who was anxious to play the role of the Mexican "During this period I conferred with Andy about writing The Death (FAW25) According to Caffe Cino playwright Robert Heide, Warhol had originally approached him about writing the script for Lupe: White processing to avoid distortion and Lupe was shot and processed in color. The Auricon recorded an optical soundtrackĭirectly on the film during shooting but optical tracks required black and Shot in December 1965 using Andy Warhol's sync-sound Auricon camera which resulted
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