Title: Pull my daisy /
Authors: Frank, Robert, 1924-2019; Leslie, Alfred, 1927-; Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969,; Amram, David; Bellamy, Richard,; Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997; Corso, Gregory; Rivers, Larry, 1925-2002,; Neal, Alice,; Prochnik, Leon,; Gross, Sally,; G-String (Firm); Amos Vogel Annenberg School of Communications Collection (Harvard Film Archive)
Publisher: A G-String enterprise,
Year: 1959
Subjects: Kerouac, Jack,; Cassady, Neal.; Beats (Persons)
Abstract: Widely acknowledged as a classic of American independent cinema, Pull My Daisy was photographer Robert Frank's filmmaking debut. The film describes the moods and feelings of a group of poets and musicians meeting in a loft apartment on a Friday morning. The idea for the film was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play, Beat Generation. Kerouac also provides the narration. Pull My Daisy features poets Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso, and artists Larry Rivers and Alice Neel. Based on an incident in the life of Beat icon Neal Cassady and his wife Carolyn, the film tells the story of a railway brakeman whose wife invites a respectable bishop over for dinner. However, the brakeman's bohemian friends crash the party, with comic results. The title Pull My Daisy was taken from a poem written by Kerouac, Ginsberg and Cassady in the late 1940's.