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Robert Frank
Pull My Daisy
Pull My Daisy is a collectable object containing Robert Frank’s famous film of 1959 on DVD; a text booklet with an
introduction, the transcript of the film and lyrics to the opening song; and a photo-magazine of on-set documentary
photos by John Cohen.
Pull My Daisy typifies the Beat Generation. Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Pull My Daisy was adapted
by Jack Kerouac from the third act of a stage play he never finished entitled Beat Generation. Kerouac also provided
improvised narration. It stars Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers, Peter Orlovsky, David Amram, Richard Bellamy,
Alice Neel, Sally Gross and Pablo, Frank’s then infant son. Based on an incident in the life of Neal Cassady and
his wife Carolyn, the movie tells the story of a railway brakeman whose painter wife invites a respectable bishop over
for dinner. However, the brakeman’s bohemian friends crash the party, with comic results. Pull My Daisy was praised
for years as an improvisational masterpiece, until Leslie revealed in 1968 that the film was actually carefully planned,
rehearsed, and directed by him and Frank.
Robert Frank was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1924 and immigrated to the United States in 1947. He is best known
for his seminal book The Americans, first published in 1959. Frank’s other important projects include the books Black
White and Things (1952) and Lines of My Hand (1972), as well as the film Cocksucker Blues (1972) for the Rolling
Stones. He divides his time between New York City and Nova Scotia, Canada.
DVD (NTSC/PAL)
Robert Frank
Pull My Daisy
Book and object design by Robert Frank and Gerhard Steidl
DVD, text booklet and photo-magazine, housed in a cardboad box
Cardboard box: 5.6 x 7.6 in. / 14.2 x 19.2 cm
Text booklet: 32 pages, 1 photograph
Photo-magazine: 56 pages, 36 photographs
€ 20.00 / £ 16.00 / US$ 28.00
ISBN 978-3-86930-428-1
Robert Frank on the set of Pull My Daisy. Photo by John Cohen Cardboard box
Photo-magazine Text booklet
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