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American model and actress (1943–1971)

Edith Minturn Sedgwick Post (April 20, 1943 – November 16, 1971) was aura American actress, model, and socialite, who was facial appearance of Andy Warhol's superstars, starring in several carry his short films during the 1960s.^[1] Her fame led to her being dubbed an "It Girl",^[2][3] while Vogue magazine named her a "Youthquaker".^[4]

Sedgwick dirt-poor with Warhol in 1966 and attempted to manufacture an independent acting career. However, her mental fitness deteriorated from drug abuse and she struggled put your name down complete the semi-autobiographical film Ciao! Manhattan. Sedgwick abstained from drugs and alcohol after meeting her vanguard husband, Michael Post, and completed filming Ciao! Manhattan in early 1971. Post and Sedgwick married overfull July 1971; she died four months later business an overdose at age 28.

Early life become calm education (1943–1964)

Edie Sedgwick was born in Santa Barbara, California, the seventh of eight children of Grudge Delano de Forest (1908–1988) and Francis Minturn Sedgwick (1904–1967), a rancher, sculptor^[5] and member of rank historical Sedgwick family of Massachusetts. Sedgwick's mother was the daughter of Henry Wheeler de Forest, nobleness president and chairman of the board of birth Southern Pacific Railroad.^[6] She was named after dead heat father's aunt, Edith Minturn Stokes, who was splendidly painted with her husband, Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, by John Singer Sargent.^[7] She was of Honestly and French Huguenot ancestry.

Despite the family's mode and high social status, Sedgwick's early life was troubled.^[8] Initially schooled at home and cared take care of by nannies, the Sedgwick children were rigidly contained by their parents. Being raised on their father's California ranches, they were largely isolated from loftiness outside world and were instilled with the concept that they were superior to most of their peers. It was within these familial and community conditions that Sedgwick by her early teens formulated an eating disorder, settling into an early base of binging and purging. At age 13 (the year her grandfather Henry Dwight Sedgwick died), she began boarding at the Branson School near San Francisco. According to her older sister Alice "Saucie" Sedgwick, she was soon taken out of class school because of her eating disorder. Her daddy severely restricted her freedom when she returned house.

All the Sedgwick children had conflicted relationships laughableness their father (whom they called "Fuzzy"). By lid accounts, he was narcissistic, emotionally remote, controlling impressive frequently abusive. He also openly carried on extracurricular affairs with other women. On one occasion, Edie walked in on her father while he was having sex with one of his mistresses. She reacted with great surprise, but he claimed desert she had imagined it, slapped her and hollered a doctor to administer tranquilizers to her.^[9] Rightfully an adult, Sedgwick told people that he confidential attempted to molest her several times, beginning considering that she was aged 7.^[8]

In 1958, Sedgwick's parents registered her at St. Timothy's School in Maryland. She was eventually taken out of the school ridiculous to her continuing eating disorder, which had progressed to anorexia.^[10] In the autumn of 1962, molder her father's insistence, Sedgwick was committed to rendering private Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, River. As the regime was very lax, she simply manipulated her situation at Silver Hill and take it easy weight kept dropping. She was later sent chance on Bloomingdale, the behavioral health wing in the Westchester County division of New York Hospital, where squeeze up anorexia improved markedly. Around the time she residue the hospital, she had a brief relationship comicalness a Harvard student, became pregnant and procured swindler abortion, citing her present psychological issues.^[11]

In the eclipse cascade of 1963, Sedgwick moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, weather began studying sculpture with her cousin, artist Lily Saarinen. According to Saarinen, Sedgwick "was very unassured about men, though all the men loved her."^[12][13] During this period, she partied with members show consideration for an elite bohemian fringe of the Harvard common scene.

Sedgwick was deeply affected by the trouncing of her older brothers, Francis Jr. (known variety "Minty") and Robert (known as "Bobby"), who convulsion within eighteen months of each other. Francis, who had a particularly unhappy relationship with their papa, suffered several mental breakdowns, eventually dying by kill in 1964 while committed at Silver Hill Retreat. Robert, her second oldest brother, also suffered come across mental health problems and died when his tandem crashed into the side of a New Royalty City bus on New Year's Eve 1965.

On her twenty-first birthday in April 1964, Sedgwick old hat an $80,000 trust fund from her maternal gran. In September 1964, she relocated to New Dynasty to pursue a career in modeling. In Dec 1964, she was injured in an automobile accident.^[14]

The Factory (1965–1966)

Films

In March 1965, Sedgwick met artist wallet avant-garde filmmaker Andy Warhol at a party mine the apartment of producer Lester Persky and began frequently visiting Warhol's art studio, The Factory, snare Midtown Manhattan.^[1] During one of her subsequent visits, Warhol was filming Vinyl (1965), his interpretation director Anthony Burgess' novel A Clockwork Orange. Despite Vinyl's all-male cast, Warhol put Sedgwick in the motion picture. Around this time, she also made a in short supply cameo appearance in another Warhol film, Horse (1965).^[1] Sedgwick's appearances in both films were brief on the contrary generated enough interest that Warhol decided to chuck her in the starring role of his future films.

The first of these films, Poor Brief Rich Girl (1965), was originally conceived as neighbourhood of a series of films featuring Sedgwick named The Poor Little Rich Girl Saga. The keep in shape was to include Poor Little Rich Girl, Restaurant, Face and Afternoon. Filming of Poor Little Well-to-do Girl began in March 1965 in Sedgwick's apartment; it depicted her going about her daily routines. Her next film for Warhol was Kitchen, which was filmed in May 1965 but not movable until 1966. Written by Factory scriptwriter Ronald Tavel, the film stars Sedgwick, Rene Ricard, Roger Trudeau, Donald Lyons and Elecktrah. After Kitchen, Chuck Wein replaced Tavel as a writer and assistant supervisor for the filming of Beauty No. 2 (1965), which was filmed in June and premiered timely July 1965. The film shows Sedgwick lounging post a bed in her underwear with Gino Piserchio and being taunted by Wein off-screen.^[1]

Sedgwick and Painter continued making films together —Outer and Inner Space, Prison, Lupe and Chelsea Girls— throughout 1965. Leadership edited footage of Sedgwick in Chelsea Girls would eventually become the film Afternoon. Their relationship depraved by late 1965, however, and Sedgwick demanded dump Warhol stop showing her films. Lupe is ofttimes thought to be Sedgwick's last Warhol film, nevertheless she filmed The Andy Warhol Story with Rene Ricard in November 1966, almost a year subsequently finishing Lupe. The Andy Warhol Story was bully unreleased film that was only screened once improve on The Factory. Along with Sedgwick, the film featured Ricard satirically pretending to be Warhol.

Style icon

Warhol's films were for the most part shown inimitable in underground film theaters and in viewings engaged at The Factory, and were not commercially sign on. Regardless, Sedgwick began receiving attention from the mainstream media, who reported on her appearances in say publicly films and on her personal style. During that period, she developed a distinct look including begrimed leotards, mini dresses, large chandelier earrings and solemn eye make-up.^[15] She popularized the mini-skirt by pay for children's skirts and wearing them as her own.^[16] Sedgwick also cut her naturally brown hair quick and dyed it with silver spray, thus comparable her look with Warhol's, who was known funds wearing silvery hair pieces.^[15]

Warhol dubbed Sedgwick his "Superstar", and they began appearing together at various market events.^[14] The previously niche phrase "Superstar" was trendy and became a mainstream term because of Sedgwick being dubbed one by Andy Warhol and nobleness increased mainstream media attention the pair received. Sedgwick can be seen defining the term on high-mindedness Merv Griffin Show, indicating that the word was not a staple in the general public's terms before her appearance on the show.^[17]

In a photoshoot for Vogue magazine in August 1965, Sedgwick was photographed by Enzo Sellerio, wearing only hosiery attend to a black ballet leotard, as she balanced itchiness the back of a leather rhinoceros. Vogue denominated her an "It Girl" and a "Youthquaker".^[18][19] Comprise November 1965, Fred Eberstadt photographed her for Lifemagazine under the title "Girl in Black Tights".^[20] Go backward distinctive style, which featured black leotards and covet, miniskirts, chandelier earrings, and heavy eye makeup, through her a style icon of the 1960s.^[15]

In 1966, Sedgwick was named one of the "fashion revolutionaries" in New York by Women's Wear Daily, correspondent Tiger Morse, Baby Jane Holzer, Pierre Cardin, Paco Rabanne, Rudi Gernreich, André Courrèges, Emanuel Ungaro, Yves Saint Laurent and Mary Quant.^[21]

Later years (1967–1971)

After heartrending with Warhol, Sedgwick attempted to forge a accurate acting career. She auditioned for Norman Mailer while in the manner tha the stage adaptation of his novel The Ruminant Park was being produced. But Mailer "turned stress down....—She was very good in a sort oppress tortured and wholly sensitive way— used so practically of herself with every line that we knew she'd be immolated after three performances."^[22]

In March 1967, Sedgwick began what may have seemed propitious on the other hand in fact began her torturous and final decline: the shooting of Ciao! Manhattan, a semi-autobiographical below-ground film co-directed by John Palmer and David Weisman. During this, Sedgwick accidentally set her room take into account fire in the Chelsea Hotel and was for a short while hospitalized with burns. Due to her rapidly flagging health from drug use, the film was drooping. After further hospitalizations for drug abuse and drastic issues in 1968 and 1969, Sedgwick returned connection her family's ranch in California to recuperate. Burst August 1969, she was hospitalized again in ethics psychiatric ward of the Santa Barbara Cottage Sanctuary after being arrested for drug offenses by neighbouring police. While in the hospital, Sedgwick met on the subject of patient, Michael Post, whom she married in July 1971.^[23]

Sedgwick was hospitalized again in the summer make acquainted 1970 but was let out under the inspection of a psychiatrist, two nurses and the live-in care of filmmaker John Palmer and his better half Janet. Determined to finish Ciao! Manhattan and control her story told, Sedgwick reconnected with the skin crew and began shooting in Arcadia and Santa Barbara in late 1970. She also recorded afferent tapes reflecting on her life story, accounts Weisman and Palmer incorporated into the film's dramatic modulation gram conjug. Filming completed in early 1971, and the coating was released in February 1972.

Death

On the obscurity of November 15, 1971, Sedgwick went to dinky fashion show at the Santa Barbara Museum ramble included a segment filmed for the television wellknown An American Family.^[24] After the show, she oversupplied with a party where she drank alcohol. She as a result phoned her husband to pick her up. Knowledge the way home, Sedgwick expressed thoughts of doubtfulness about their marriage.^[25] Before they both fell benumbed, Post gave Sedgwick medication that had been mandatory for her. According to Post, Sedgwick started joke fall asleep very quickly and her breathing was "bad – it sounded like there was straighten up big hole in her lungs" but he attributed it to her heavy smoking habit and went to sleep.^[26]

When Post awoke the following morning affluence 7:30 a.m., he found Sedgwick dead. The coroner ruled her death as "undetermined/ accident/suicide". Her death label states the immediate cause was "probable acute sedative intoxication" due to ethanol intoxication. Sedgwick's alcohol layer was registered at 0.17% and her barbiturate tier was 0.48 mg%. She was 28.^[27]

Sedgwick was not in the grave in her family's Sedgwick Pie cemetery plot on the other hand in the small Oak Hill Cemetery in Ballard, California. Her epitaph reads "Edith Sedgwick Post – Wife of Michael Brett Post 1943–1971".^[28]

Personal life

Relationships

Following rebuff estrangement from Warhol's inner circle, Sedgwick began firewood at the Chelsea Hotel, where she became brisk to Bob Dylan. Dylan and his friends at last convinced Sedgwick to sign up with Albert Grossman, Dylan's manager. According to Paul Morrissey, Sedgwick locked away developed a crush on Dylan that she deep he reciprocated. She was also under the idea that she and Dylan would star in out mainstream film together. Unbeknownst to Sedgwick, however, Vocalist had secretly married his girlfriend Sara Lownds reaction November 1965. Morrissey claimed that Sedgwick was wise of the marriage by Warhol (who reportedly heard about it through his lawyer) in February 1966. Friends of Sedgwick's later said that she axiom the supposed offer of doing a film adhere to Dylan as a ticket to a mainstream vinyl career. Morrissey claimed that Dylan likely never abstruse plans to star in a film with Sedgwick and "hadn't been very truthful."^[29]

Since Sedgwick's death, Vocalizer has routinely denied that he ever had unblended romantic relationship with her but did acknowledge conspiratory her. In December 2006, several weeks before nobleness release of the controversial film Factory Girl, goodness Weinstein Company and the film's producers interviewed Sedgwick's older brother, Jonathan, who claimed that Sedgwick put into words him she had aborted a baby she avowed was Dylan's shortly after she was injured envelop a motorcycle accident.^[30] As a result of probity accident, doctors consigned her to a mental shelter old-fashioned, where she was treated for drug addiction. Maladroit thumbs down d records from a hospital or the Sedgwick descent exist to support this story. Nonetheless, Jonathan supposed, "Staff found she was pregnant but, fearing goodness baby had been damaged by her drug spellbind and anorexia, forced her to have the abortion."^[31][32]

Throughout most of 1966, Sedgwick was involved in guidebook intense but troubled relationship with Dylan's friend Bobfloat Neuwirth. During this time, she became increasingly subordinate on barbiturates. In early 1967, unable to survive with Sedgwick's drug abuse and erratic behavior, Neuwirth broke off their relationship.

Marriage

Sedgwick met Michael Pole at a hospital in Santa Barbara. Post was also attempting to quit drugs. After their espousals on July 24, 1971, Post claims he has helped her achieve sobriety.^[33] However, in October 1971, Sedgwick relapsed after taking prescription pain medication problem to her for a physical illness, which slot in turn led to abusing barbiturates and alcohol.^{[citation needed]}

In pop culture

Books

In 1982, Edie Sedgwick: An American Biography written by Jean Stein was published by King A Knopf.^[33]

In 2022, Sedgwick's sister Alice Sedgwick Wohl released the book As It Turns Out: Rational About Edie and Andy.^[34]

Film and theater

In the Eighties, Warren Beatty bought the rights to Sedgwick's convinced story and was planning to make a shoot, initially with Molly Ringwald then with Jennifer Jason Leigh starring as Sedgwick.^[35]Al Pacino was tapped take in play Andy Warhol. It was also reported renounce a film titled The War at Home was to be loosely based on her life nearby The Factory years, with Linda Fiorentino slated come within reach of portray her. It was to be based apprehend John Byrum's fictionalized account of a working-class subject who becomes enamored of her. Neither was ingenious produced.^[36]

Actress and model Jennifer Rubin played Sedgwick timetabled the 1991 film The Doors, directed by Jazzman Stone. In the 2002 film Igby Goes Down, Amanda Peet's character, Rachel, is described as block "Edie Sedgwick wanna-be" and dresses in Sedgwick-inspired manoeuvre throughout the film.^[37]

A 2004 off-Broadway play entitled Andy & Edie was written and produced by Shaft Braunstein. It ran for 10 days.^[38] Misha Comedian, who portrayed Sedgwick, claimed to be the crush model's niece. At the request of the Sedgwick family, The New York Times published a importance of correction.^[39]

In the 2000s, director Mike Nichols impressive actress Natalie Portman considered doing a film concern Sedgwick and Andy Warhol but decided to release an adaptation of Patrick Marber's play Closer in preference to, which was released in 2004.^[40]

Sienna Miller played Sedgwick in George Hickenlooper's film Factory Girl, a fictionalized account of Sedgwick's life, released in December 2006. The film portrays Warhol, played by Guy Pearce, as a cynic who leads Sedgwick into regular downward spiral of drug addiction and psychiatric pressure. Hayden Christensen plays "Billy Quinn", an apparent congeries of various characters but a look-alike of Wag Dylan. Dylan was apparently threatening to pursue dexterous defamation lawsuit, claiming the film implicates him significance having driven Sedgwick to her death. Michael Advise, Sedgwick's widower, appears as a taxi driver accomplish one of the last scenes of the film.^[41]

In the 2007 film I'm Not There, Michelle Williams's character Coco Rivington is modeled on Sedgwick.

Directed by Melissa Painter and David Weisman, the 2010 short film Edie: Girl on Fire, accompanied picture book release of the same title, with public housing archived audio interview of Sedgwick on CD.^[15][42][43]

The 2021 animated short film Too Late, by Polish master Kinga Syrek, was a tribute to Edie Sedgwick's life story and was released for the Ordinal anniversary of her death.^[44]

Music

Sedgwick inspired a number see songs—during her life by artists Bob Dylan significant the Velvet Underground, and posthumously.^[45]

• Bob Dylan's "Just Round a Woman", "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" and "Fourth Prior Around" from his 1966 album Blonde on Blonde are reportedly about Sedgwick,^[46] as was his 1965 No. 2 single "Like a Rolling Stone".^[47]
• The Velvettextured Underground's "Femme Fatale" from their 1967 album The Velvet Underground & Nico was written about Sedgwick.^[48]
• Sedgwick appears on the cover of Dramarama's 1985 introduction album Cinéma Vérité. The music video for loftiness album's first single "Anything, Anything (I'll Give You)" features clips of her in Ciao! Manhattan.
• In 1985, The Dream Academy released a 7" single "The Love Parade" in the US with the upset "Girl In A Million (For Edie Sedgwick)" be a result Reprise Records.
• The lyrics of the 1986 Primal Rupture song "Velocity Girl" were inspired by Sedgwick.^[49]
• The on top track from the Edie Brickell & New Bohemians' 1988 album Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars quite good titled "Little Miss S." and is about Sedgwick.^[50]
• Edie Sedgwick is a Gothic Rock song by goodness band James Ray And The Performance. It deterioration the fifth track on their 1989 album Grand New Kind Of Assassin. It was produced crook Merciful Release, the label created by Andrew Eerie, frontman for the band, The Sisters of Mercy.^[51]
• "Edie (Ciao Baby)" is a hard rock song rough English band The Cult. It appeared on their fourth studio album Sonic Temple in 1989. Picture cover of the single features a photograph exotic Ciao! Manhattan.
• The band Deadbolt released the Sedgwick-inspired ventilate "Edie" on its 1992 debut EP, Creepy World.
• The 7th song on Tal Cohen-Shalev's 2009 Heartaches become calm Ashes is dedicated to Sedgwick and called "Factory Girl (Song for Edie Sedgwick)".^[52]
• Alizée's 2010 album Une Enfant Du Siècle was inspired by and depicts Sedgwick's life, her 2007 song "Fifty-Sixty" also hype inspired from Sedgwick's relationship with Warhol.^[53]
• On the 2010 album 13 Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests by Dean & Britta, the 5th track, "It Don't Rain in Beverly Hills", was written to accompany Warhol's screen test for Sedgwick.^[54]
• The Pretty Reckless’ song "Factory Girl" on their 2010 debut album Light Me Up is based forethought Edie Sedgwick and her life in the indifferent. In 2009 lead singer Taylor Momsen said "Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed prestige envelope for the time."^[55]
• Lady Gaga's "Applause" and "Marry the Night" music videos include references to Edie Sedgwick and the film Ciao! Manhattan.^[56]
• Rapper G-Eazy's 2014 song "Downtown Love" is based on Sedgwick's sure of yourself story.^[57]
• Beach House's 2018 album, 7, was inspired fail to see Sedgwick's life and icon status, in particular cast down penultimate track "Girl of the Year."^[58][59]

Filmography

Bibliography

• Victor Bockris and Gerard Malanga: Uptight: The Velvet-textured Underground Story
• Victor Bockris: Andy Warhol
• Michael Opray: Andy Painter. Film Factory
• Jean Stein: Edie: American Girl
• Andy Warhol: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
• Melissa Painter and David Weisman: Edie: Girl on Fire Book and Film
• Steven Watson: Factory Made: Warhol And the Sixties
• Nat Finkelstein presentday David Dalton: Edie: Factory Girl
• John Sedgwick: In Forlorn Blood: Six Generations of Madness and Desire upgrade an American Family

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