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Rudi Gernreich is a Actor and Costume Design Autrichien born on 8 august 1922 at Vienna (Austria)
Rudi Gernreich (August 8, 1922 — April 21, 1985) was an Austrian-born American fashion designer and an early gay activist. He helped to fund the early activities of the Mattachine Society, introduced the single-piece topless monokini in 1964, and had a long, unconventional and trend-setting career as a fashion designer.
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Nationality Austria
Birth 8 august 1922 at Vienna (Austria)
Death 21 april 1985 (at 62 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Birth 8 august 1922 at Vienna (Austria)
Death 21 april 1985 (at 62 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
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Mondo Hollywood (1967)
, 1h28Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about cities
Actors Rudi Gernreich, Coleman Francis, Frank Zappa
Rating60%
Costume and makup
Skidoo (1968)
, 1h37Directed by Otto Preminger
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Frankie Avalon, Fred Clark, Michael Constantine, Frank Gorshin
Roles Costume Design
Rating47%
As a cartoon character dressed in prison stripes (and holding a peace-logo flower which turns into a tiny parasol and then a helicopter blade) executes a few dance steps to the music of Nilsson's Skidoo theme, the words "Otto Preminger" appear below him. Additional words "presents SKIDOO starring" can also be seen as the camera pulls back to reveal that this image is on a TV screen, while Carol Channing's voice is heard exclaiming, "No, Harry, not that. No, I don't wanna see that", with the channel suddenly switching to show a US Senate hearing conducted by Senator Hummel, portrayed by Peter Lawford, who asks a series of organized crime figures various questions to which they invariably reply, "I refuse to answer on the grounds it may tend to incriminate me." Every few seconds, the channel showing the hearing switches to another channel which is screening Preminger's black-and-white 1965 feature, In Harm's Way, or still other channels which have one spurious commercial after another. The initial ad depicts an attractive blonde declaring, "now you too can be beautiful and sexually desirable like me instead of being that fat, disgusting, foul-breathed, slimy, wallowing sow that you are," the second has another intensely smiling blonde stating that "maybe we blondes do have more fun" and the third ad depicts a drunken slob swilling beer and belching, interspersed with an image of a pig with beer foam around its snout, while an unseen announcer exclaims "feel big, drink pig.