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Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.
James Rado
- Jim
- (as Jim Rado)
Gerome Ragni
- Jerry
- (as Jerry Ragni)
Ben Ford
- Benjamin - blond boy
- (uncredited)
Lyndon B. Johnson
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Ethel Kennedy
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Robert F. Kennedy
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Coretta Scott King
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Michael McClure
- The Beard Writer
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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- TriviaJim Morrison: Agnès Varda originally wanted Jim Morrison to play one of the male leads. He declined, though he visited the production during filming and can be briefly seen as an audience member of the theater performance of "The Beard" in the opening scene.
- Quotes
Viva: Even if he is corrupt, at least he does it with style.
Jim: Viva, you're too much.
Viva: Of course, all politics is the same thing. They're just better actors. Much better actors. If you were as good an actor as Bobby Kennedy you'd be where Bobby Kennedy is up on the podium.
Jim: Who wants to be up there? You could get killed.
Viva: Influencing the masses.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Varda by Agnes: Causeries 1 (2019)
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Documentary maker Shirley Clarke comes to Hollywood... finding nothing there .... to negotiate with a big studio about making a movie in which movie stars play themselves. Instead, she hangs out with three fringe actors while her agent negotiates with studio brass. All this is against the background of the Robert Kennedy assassination and the shooting of Andy Warhol.
It's an Agnes Varda movie, which means there is a sarcastic edge to the affair. The actors, part of Andy Warhol's coterie, perform their ad lib roles in a very artificial manner; Miss Clarke refuses to do a particular scene, so Miss Varda comes from behind the camera to do it herself. Only the agent and studio executive give realistic performances. For the rest of it, it seems, it's a movie about movie people trying to make a movie. It's endlessly recursive, and the failure of the project means that's this winds up being a movie about not making a movie. In the end, there is no movie, no studio making a movie, no Hollywood (beyond Larry Edmond's book shop), no Robert Kennedy, and very nearly no Andy Warhol or Shirley Clarke. It's a movie about nothing, except the lights and colors of Hollywood. It's an elaborately detailed travelogue, stretched out two hours, with beautiful people who are so shallow they might exist only on a flat movie screen.
It's an Agnes Varda movie, which means there is a sarcastic edge to the affair. The actors, part of Andy Warhol's coterie, perform their ad lib roles in a very artificial manner; Miss Clarke refuses to do a particular scene, so Miss Varda comes from behind the camera to do it herself. Only the agent and studio executive give realistic performances. For the rest of it, it seems, it's a movie about movie people trying to make a movie. It's endlessly recursive, and the failure of the project means that's this winds up being a movie about not making a movie. In the end, there is no movie, no studio making a movie, no Hollywood (beyond Larry Edmond's book shop), no Robert Kennedy, and very nearly no Andy Warhol or Shirley Clarke. It's a movie about nothing, except the lights and colors of Hollywood. It's an elaborately detailed travelogue, stretched out two hours, with beautiful people who are so shallow they might exist only on a flat movie screen.
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- Runtime1 hour 52 minutes
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