Andy Warhol: My Hustler & Beauty no.2

Scarce handbill for Warhol's My Hustler - his controversial and first commercially successful film. My Hustler stars Ed Hood, and Paul America as the titular blonde hustler, with appearances by Joseph Campbell, Genevieve Charbin, and Dorothy Dean. Directed by Andy Warhol and Chuck Wein, with Paul Morrissey as camera and audio operator, the film was shot over Labor Day Weekend 1965 on Fire Island. The first Warhol film that Morrissey worked on, the film utilized camera movement and sound synchronization, techniques Warhol had never used in his films. My Hustler premiered in January 1966 at the Film-makers’ Cinematheque in New York and showed in Boston in February 1967 with Beauty no.2 - with Edie Sedgwick and Gino Piserchio.