Mondo Hollywood
30/06/1967
Long considered a cult classic, "Mondo Hollywood" captures the underside of Hollywood by documenting a moment in time (1965-67), when an inquisitive trust in the unknown was paramount, hope for the future was tangible and life was worth living on the fringe. An interior monologue narrative approach is used throughout the film, where each principal person shown not only decided on what they wanted to be filmed doing, but also narrated their own scenes. The film opens with Gypsy Boots (the original hippie vegan - desert hopping blender salesman), and stripper Jennie Lee, working out 'Watusi-style' beneath the 'Hollywood' sign -- leading into the 'sustainable community' insight of Lewis Beach Marvin III, the S&H Green Stamp heir, who lived in a $10 a month garage while owning a mountain retreat in Malibu.
Movie Information
Vito Paulekas
as
Carl Franzoni
as
Gypsy Boots
as
Ram Dass
as
Frank Zappa
as
Bobby Beausoleil
as Himself - Cupid
Margaretta Ramsey
as
Dale Davis
as
Theodore Charach
as
Valerie Porter
as
Jay Sebring
as
Carazini
as
Rudi Gernreich
as
Rodney Bingenheimer
as
Jimmy Carl Black
as
Carol Cole
as
Coleman Francis
as
Antony Armstrong-Jones Snowdon
as Himself (archive footage)
Lewis Beach Marvin III
as
Jayne Mansfield
as
Alfred Hitchcock
as
Jennie Lee
as
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