Francis Francine
Acting
(56 years old)
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.
Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted mov...
A follow-up to now legendary film Flaming Creatures. This vivid, full-color homage to B-mo...