Mondo Hollywood (1967)
2h
Running Time
June 30, 1967Release Date
Plot.
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.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Margaretta Ramsey
Self
Theodore Charach
Self
Ram Dass
Self - Clinical Psychologist
Valerie Porter
Self - Sculptress
Jay Sebring
Self - Hair Stylist
Carazini
Self - Fire Eater
Rudi Gernreich
Self - Clothes Designer
Bobby Beausoleil
Self - Cupid
Rodney Bingenheimer
Self
Robert Carl Cohen
Director
Antony Armstrong-Jones Snowdon
Himself (archive footage)
Mike Curb
Music
Arthur N. Gilbert
Executive Producer
Davie Allan
Music
Allen Porter
Title Graphics
Carl Franzoni
Details.
Wiki.
Mondo Hollywood is a documentary "mondo movie" by Robert Carl Cohen, released in 1967. Filmed over the preceding two years, it was described by Variety as a "flippy, trippy psychedelic guide to Hollywood".