Pull My Daisy
movie
View on VideBits →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
Pablo Frank · Robert Frank · Sally Gross · Alfred Leslie · David Amram · Jack Kerouac · Gregory Corso · Larry Rivers · Peter Orlovsky · Richard Bellamy · Allen Ginsberg · Alice Neel