Edie was incredible on camera -- just the way she moved ... She was all energy" (Warhol). The chic but troubled heiress/model Edie Sedgwick was Warhol's most iconic Superstar and, for a time, one of his closest companions; at the height of their kinship, the similarly wan, pale-blonde duo even styled themselves as doppelgangers. Borrowing its title from the 1936 film starring Shirley Temple (the young Warhol's idol), Poor Little Rich Girl follows Sedgwick as she putters around her apartment in a staged "day-in-the-life" portrait. Notoriously, the film's entire first reel is completely out of focus, so we watch Sedgwick's morning unfold in a dreamlike haze as the poor little rich girl puts on makeup, lolls about in bed, smokes, and pops some pills .
| Directed by | Andy Warhol |
| Written by | Ronald Tavel |