November 11, 1959
26 minutes
ComedyDrama
Pull My Daisy
Based on an incident in the life of Beat icon Neal Cassady and his wife, the painter Carolyn, the film tells the story of a railway brakeman whose wife invites a respected bishop over for dinner. However, the brakeman's Bohemian friends crash the party, with comic results. Pull My Daisy is a film that typifies the Beat Generation. Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play, Beat Generation; Kerouac also provided improvised narration.
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Cast
Jack Kerouac
(Narrator (voice))
Allen Ginsberg
(Alan)
Gregory Corso
(Gregory)
Peter Orlovsky
(Peter)
Larry Rivers
(Milo)
David Amram
(Mez McGillicuddy)
Richard Bellamy
(Bishop)
Alice Neel
(Bishop's Mother)
Sally Gross
(Bishop's Sister)
Pablo Frank
(Pablo, Milo's Son)
Delphine Seyrig
(Milo's Wife)
Denise Parker
(Girl in Bed)
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