Ciao! Manhattan

Ciao! Manhattan

84 mins | Drama, Documentary | April 19, 1973

Warhol superstar and icon of sixties bohemia Edie Sedgwick delivers her final performance in this semiautobiographical look at the price of fame. Fiction and documentary—including snippets from Sedgwick’s own audio dairies—mingle in a freewheeling portrait of Susan Superstar (Sedgwick), a New York celebrity on a drug-fueled downward slide that mirrors Sedgwick’s own self-destructive spiral. Released after her death from an overdose of barbiturates, CIAO! MANHATTAN endures as a testament to Sedgwick’s unique magnetism and as a haunting elegy for the counterculture she embodied.

Ciao! Manhattan

84 mins | Drama, Documentary | April 19, 1973

Ciao! Manhattan
Warhol superstar and icon of sixties bohemia Edie Sedgwick delivers her final performance in this semiautobiographical look at the price of fame. Fiction and documentary—including snippets from Sedgwick’s own audio dairies—mingle in a freewheeling portrait of Susan Superstar (Sedgwick), a New York celebrity on a drug-fueled downward slide that mirrors Sedgwick’s own self-destructive spiral. Released after her death from an overdose of barbiturates, CIAO! MANHATTAN endures as a testament to Sedgwick’s unique magnetism and as a haunting elegy for the counterculture she embodied.
IMDb rating 5.6
Producers Sugarloaf Films Inc., Court Pictures, Maron Films
Original title Ciao! Manhattan
Directors John Palmer, David Weisman
Writers Chuck Wein, John Palmer, David Weisman

Cast

Edie Sedgwick

as Susan Superstar

Wesley Hayes

as Butch

Isabel Jewell

as Mummy

Jeff Briggs

as Geoffrey

Paul America

as Paul

Tom Flye

as Tom

Gabriel Lampa

as Mario

Pat Hartley

as Yoli

Nell Bassett

as Receptionist

Charlie Bacis

as Doctor Robert

Jane Holzer

as Charla

David Weisman

as David

Wesley Rand

as Wes

Viva

as Diana - Vogue editor

Roger Vadim

as Dr. Braun

Brigid Berlin

as Brigid

Rosko

as Locker Attendant

Lorenzo

as Rapist

Titus

as Rapist

Allen Ginsberg

as Himself

Christian Marquand

as Entrepreneur

John Nahan

as Lawyer

Jean Margouleff

as Mister Verdecchio