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.
Genres:
Vito Paulekas as
Carl Franzoni as
Gypsy Boots as
Ram Dass as
Frank Zappa as
Bobby Beausoleil as Himself - Cupid
Margaretta Ramsey as
Dale Davis as
Theodore Charach as
Valerie Porter as
Jay Sebring as
Carazini as
Rudi Gernreich as
Rodney Bingenheimer as
Jimmy Carl Black as
Carol Cole as
Coleman Francis as
Antony Armstrong-Jones Snowdon as Himself (archive footage)
Lewis Beach Marvin III as
Jayne Mansfield as
Alfred Hitchcock as
Jennie Lee as
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