''Poor Little Rich Girl'' is a 1965

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starring

Edie Sedgwick Edith Minturn Sedgwick Post (April 20, 1943 – November 16, 1971) was an American actress and fashion model, known for being one of Andy Warhol's superstars.Watson, Steven (2003), "Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties" Pantheon Books, pp. 210& ...

. ''Poor Little Rich Girl'' was conceived as the first film in part of a series featuring Sedgwick called ''The Poor Little Rich Girl Saga''. The saga was to include other Warhol films: ''Restaurant'', ''Face'', and ''Afternoon''. The title references the 1936 film of the same name, starring Shirley Temple, whom Warhol idolized as a child. The title also serves as a sort of description of the star, heiress

Synopsis

The concept of ''Poor Little Rich Girl'' is a day in the life of socialite Edie Sedgwick. Warhol and

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began shooting in March 1965 in Sedgwick's posh New York City apartment. After initial filming and processing, the reels were found to be out of focus due to a faulty camera lens. Warhol then reshot footage, adding it to the original, out-of-focus first reel footage. The first reel depicts an out-of-focus Sedgwick waking up, ordering coffee and orange juice, smoking cigarettes and marijuana, exercising, taking pills and putting on makeup in silence. The only noise is that of an

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record playing continuously in the background. The second reel, which is in focus, shows Sedgwick lying on her bed and talking to her friend,

Chuck Wein Chuck Wein (March 24, 1939March 18, 2008) was an American promoter and manager of entertainment acts whose celebrity stemmed from his five-year (1964–1969) association with Andy Warhol and from his discovery of Edie Sedgwick who became a ...

, who remains off-camera. Wein can be heard responding to Edie, asking various questions and commenting on different subjects, but never appears on camera. The rest of the film continues with Edie waking up Wein, the two discussing dreams (Wein alludes to his containing miles of people dressed like

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repeatedly playing "

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"), Sedgwick talking on the telephone, during which Wein plays an album by

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, Sedgwick smoking an indistinguishable substance from a pipe, repeatedly applying lipstick, trying on different outfits, including a real leopard-skin coat (Wein describes the coat as "ugly," with buttons that look like "two-way radios"), casual conversation between the two including social situations and various friends, and vaguely describing how she spent her entire inheritance in six months.

Premiere

In June 1965, ''Poor Little Rich Girl'' premiered at the Film-makers' Cooperative Cinematheque on a double bill with another Warhol film, ''

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''.

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