Tally Brown, New York

Duration: 90

Year Published: 1977

Creator: R. von Praunheim

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Flamboyant singer, Tally Brown, provides a tour of New York's underground clubs and cabarets while narrating the story of her life and career. Born in New York, a city child, Brown, once called the white Billie Holiday, has displayed her inimitable vocal style in strip joints, Las Vegas clubs and New York's now defunct Continental Baths. Working as an actress/singer on Broadway, Tally has appeared in horror movies and the avant-garde films of Andy Warhol. Brown is seen with longtime friends, Taylor Mead, Holly Woodlawn, and Divine.