Soap Opera (1964)
Soap Opera, starring Baby Jane Holzer and Lester Persky, among Factory regulars, intercuts television commercials of its day with silent domestic scenes shot by Warhol.
- Date of release
- 1964-06-27
- Runtime
- 47m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Andy Warhol, Jerry Benjamin
Casting
- Jane Holzer
- Lester Persky — Self
- Sam Green
- Gerard Malanga
- Ivy Nicholson
- Rufus Collins
- Rosemary Kelly — Self in Commercial (archive footage)
- Jerry Lewis — Self in Commercial (archive footage)
Interesting facts
Soap Opera, subtitled The Lester Persky Story, is a 1964 feature-length underground film directed by Andy Warhol, starring Baby Jane Holzer, and featuring Gerard Malanga, Sam Green, and Ivy Nicholson. The subtitle was used by Warhol since he used old television advertisement footage provided by Lester Persky.
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