
Mondo Hollywood
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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.
Cast

Vito Paulekas

Carl Franzoni

Gypsy Boots

Ram Dass

Frank Zappa

Bobby Beausoleil
Himself - Cupid

Margaretta Ramsey

Dale Davis

Theodore Charach

Valerie Porter

Jay Sebring

Carazini

Rudi Gernreich

Rodney Bingenheimer

Jimmy Carl Black

Carol Cole

Coleman Francis

Antony Armstrong-Jones Snowdon
Himself (archive footage)

Lewis Beach Marvin III

Jayne Mansfield

Alfred Hitchcock
