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Writers:
John Palmer (screenplay) and
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Release Date:
July 1974 (Austria) more
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Cast

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Edie Sedgwick ... Susan Superstar
Wesley Hayes ... Butch
Isabel Jewell ... Mummy
Jeff Briggs ... Geoffrey (as Geoffrey Briggs)
Paul America ... Paul
Tom Flye ... Tom
Gabriel Lampa ... Mario
Pat Hartley ... Yoli
Nell Bassett ... Receptionist
Charlie Bacis ... Doctor Robert (as Bhavananda)
Jane Holzer ... Charla (as 'Baby' Jane Holzer)
David Weisman ... David
Wesley Rand ... Wes
Viva ... Diana - Vogue editor
Roger Vadim ... Dr. Braun
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Ciao! Manhattan (USA) (alternative spelling)
Edie in Ciao! Manhattan
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Runtime:
84 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Quotes:
Susan: They serve like a mockery in way of reality because they think everything is smiles and sweetness and flowers, when there is something bitter to taste. And to pretend there isn't is foolish. more
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29 out of 37 people found the following comment useful.
Sad, so very, very sad, 20 June 2005
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Author: emefay from United States

As Edie's biography here on IMDb says, she was in and out of institutions. It is clear that this woman-child was taken advantage of very callously by Andy Warhol and others, at first for her money, and later for her celebrity.

Ciao! Manhattan shocked and angered me when I first saw it in 1972, because I had known Edie. For several months in 1962, when she was in a very tony, low-security psychiatric institution in Westchester, I knew her as a sweet-natured, somewhat reticent, and very artistic 19-year-old. When I first met her I thought she was a 12-year-old child, as I was, for she was so thin and under-developed looking for her age. Seeing the way she is abused in Ciao! Manhattan just leaves me feeling very sad for her. She deserved better than this exploitation film.

As for the "Summer of Love" reference made by an earlier reviewer on IMDb, referring to the fact that this film was actually made partly in 1967, I do not think Ciao, Manhattan represents any of the genuine feelings of free expression and loving attitudes that were touted at the time. There is far too much cynicism inherent in this film to connect it in any way to the hippie happiness one could experience in pleasanter circles than that inhabited/created by the ghastly, selfish, mean-spirited, and self-involved Warhol. He used and threw away such gentle souls as Edie. I weep for the lost and under-appreciated life she led while under the influence of Warhol. In kinder company, she might have survived and been happier.

Ciao, Edie! You deserved better.

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