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Pull My Daisy

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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.

Cast & crew

Alice Neel · Allen Ginsberg · David Amram · Gregory Corso · Jack Kerouac · Larry Rivers · Pablo Frank · Peter Orlovsky · Richard Bellamy · Sally Gross · Alfred Leslie · Robert Frank