Plot
Long considered a cult classic, "Mondo Hollywood" captures the underside of Hollywood by documenting a moment in time (1965-67), when an inquisitive trust in the unknown was paramount, hope for the future was tangible and life was worth living on the fringe. An interior monologue narrative approach is used throughout the film, where each principal person shown not only decided on what they wanted to be filmed doing, but also narrated their own scenes. The film opens with Gypsy Boots (the original hippie vegan - desert hopping blender salesman), and stripper Jennie Lee, working out 'Watusi-style' beneath the 'Hollywood' sign -- leading into the 'sustainable community' insight of Lewis Beach Marvin III, the S&H Green Stamp heir, who lived in a $10 a month garage while owning a mountain retreat in Malibu.
Trailer
Cast
Vito Paulekas
Carl Franzoni
Gypsy Boots
Ram Dass
Frank Zappa
Bobby Beausoleil
Himself - Cupid
Margaretta Ramsey
Dale Davis
Theodore Charach
Valerie Porter
Jay Sebring
Carazini
Rudi Gernreich
Rodney Bingenheimer
Jimmy Carl Black
Carol Cole
Coleman Francis
Antony Armstrong-Jones Snowdon
Himself (archive footage)
Lewis Beach Marvin III
Jayne Mansfield
Alfred Hitchcock
Jennie Lee
