Holly Woodlawn

Remembering Holly Woodlawn, Muse To Lou Reed's 'Wild Side'

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Her sassy, improvised dialogue and her vulnerability touched audiences and critics, many of whom were desperate to find a glint of redeeming light in a relentlessly sordid film. “Holly Woodlawn, especially, is something to behold,” Vincent Canby wrote The mordant humor, impeccable comic timing and matchless deadpan that Holly Woodlawn brought so vividly to the … Read more

Remembering Holly Woodlawn, Muse To Lou Reed's 'Wild Side'

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Her sassy, improvised dialogue and her vulnerability touched audiences and critics, many of whom were desperate to find a glint of redeeming light in a relentlessly sordid film. “Holly Woodlawn, especially, is something to behold,” Vincent Canby wrote Woodlawn, the transgender woman who inspired the first verse of Reed's 1973 hit "Walk on the Wild … Read more

Holly Woodlawn, transgender superstar of Warhol films, dies at 69

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The mordant humor, impeccable comic timing and matchless deadpan that Holly Woodlawn brought so vividly to the screen as a welfare cheat married to Joe Dallessandro's heroin addict in “Trash,” and as man-hating nymphomaniac fashion model in  Holly Woodlawn starred in the Andy Warhol classic, 'Trash'. See Holly Woodlawn's star turn in the Andy Warhol … Read more

Remembering Holly Woodlawn, a Transgender Star of the Warhol Era

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Woodlawn was famously one of Andy Warhol's many “superstars.” Woodlawn, born Haroldo Danhakl in Puerto Rico, hitchhiked to New York City at 15. There, she met Warhol and starred in Paul Morrissey's 1970 film “Trash.” She also appeared alongside  Transgender actress and self-proclaimed "Warhol superstar" Holly Woodlawn (neé Haroldo Santiago Franceschi Rodriguez Danhakl ) died … Read more