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Aug 18, 2022 · “No party in New York is considered a success unless they are there,” host Merv Griffin declared in a 1965 episode of his talk show before bringing out Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick. His ...
Dec 6, 2017 · Beautiful, rich, and deeply damaged, Edie Sedgwick was the avatar of Andy Warhol’s desires. In 1965, as Pop art’s prince moved from painting into film, he made Sedgwick his superstar—his...
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Nov 6, 2023 · Edie Sedgwick was a model and socialite who became Andy Warhol's muse in the 1960s. She was an actress and fashion star who became one of Pop Art's best-known faces. Nov 6, 2023 • By Diana Oliveira, MA English, BA English Literature.
- Edie Sedgwick’s Troubled Childhood
- From Mental Hospitals to Fame in New York City
- When Edie Sedgwick Met Andy Warhol
- The Rumored Romance Between Edie Sedgwick and Bob Dylan
- The Fatal Downfall of An Iconic Muse
Born on April 20, 1943, in Santa Barbara, California, Edith Minturn Sedgwick inherited two things from her family — money and mental illness. Edie came from a long line of prominent Americans but, as her 19th-century ancestor Henry Sedgwick noted, depression was “the family disease.” She came of age on a 3,000-acre-cattle ranch in Santa Barbara cal...
On the East Coast, Edie Sedgwick’s problems seemed to worsen. After dropping to 90 pounds, she was sent to a closed ward, where she lost her will to live. “I was very suicidal in a blind kind of way,” Edie later said. “I was starving to death just ’cause I didn’t want to turn out like my family showed me… I didn’t want to live.” At the same time, E...
On March 26, 1965, Edie Sedgwick met Andy Warhol at Tenessee Williams’ birthday party. It wasn’t a chance encounter. Movie producer Lester Persky had nudged the two together, recalling that when Andy first saw a picture of Edie, “Andy sucked in his breath and said ‘Oh, she’s so bee-you-ti-ful.’ Making every single letter sound like a whole syllable...
Edie Sedgwick and Bob Dylan’s romance — if it existed — was kept secret. But the singer allegedly wrote a number of songs about her, including “Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat.” And Edie’s brother Jonathan claimed that Edie did fall for the folk singer, hard. “She called me up and said she’d met this folk singer in the Chelsea, and she thinks she’s falli...
After parting ways with Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick’s star seemed to continue to rise. But she still grappled with her inner demons. In 1966, she was photographed for the cover of Vogue. But though the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Diana Vreeland, dubbed her a “Youthquake,” Sedgwick’s excessive use of drugs stopped her from becoming part of the Voguef...
- Kara Goldfarb
Aug 19, 2022 · In effect, he treated the camera as a surrogate for his eye. However, when Wirtschafter took over, he had to make a sudden adjustment, and that caused it to move. Andy would never have moved it, nor would he have walked out if that had been the very first time Edie Sedgwick showed up at the Factory.
Edie Sedgwick. Sedgwick (center), with Pat Hartley, filming Ciao! Manhattan in 1967. Edith Minturn Sedgwick Post (April 20, 1943 – November 16, 1971) was an American actress, model, and socialite, who was one of Andy Warhol's superstars, starring in several of his short films during the 1960s. [1]
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Apr 2, 2014 · Heading to New York in 1963, Sedgwick's hard-partying, socialite lifestyle led her to meet artist Andy Warhol, and she became his muse during the height of the Pop Art movement. She starred in ...
