Mondo Hollywood
- Released on
- Runtime
- 120 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Jayne Mansfield
- Hedy Lamarr
- Brigitte Bardot
- Frank Zappa
- Bobby Beausoleil
- Jay Sebring
- Ann-Margret
- Rodney Bingenheimer
- Julie Andrews
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Ram Dass
- Coleman Francis
- Carol Cole
- Cher
- Arlene Dahl
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Mary Ure
- James Stewart
- Jane Russell
- Mary Pickford
- Ann Miller
- Elsa Lanchester
- Carolyn Jones
- Rock Hudson
- Greer Garson
- Vince Edwards
- Steve McQueen
- Ginger Rogers
- Frank Sinatra
- Nancy Sinatra
- Danny Thomas
- Elke Sommer
- Andy Williams
- Debbie Reynolds
- Ronald Reagan
- Princess Margaret
- Troy Donahue
- Rudi Gernreich
- Gypsy Boots
- Dale Davis
- Carazini
- Theodore Charach
- Carl Franzoni
- Valerie Porter
- Margaretta Ramsey
- Vito Paulekas
- Jimmy Carl Black
- Antony Armstrong-Jones Snowdon
- Jennie Lee
- Lewis Beach Marvin III
- Gail Zappa
Director
- Robert Carl Cohen
