Pull My Daisy

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Pull My Daisy is a collectable object featuring Robert Frank’s iconic 1959 film on DVD, accompanied by a text booklet with an introduction, film transcript, and lyrics to the opening song, as well as a photo-magazine of on-set documentary images by John Cohen. This work epitomizes the Beat Generation, directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, and adapted from an unfinished stage play by Jack Kerouac. Kerouac also lends his voice for improvised narration. The film stars notable figures such as Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers, and Frank’s infant son, Pablo. It narrates an incident involving Neal Cassady and his wife Carolyn, focusing on a railway brakeman whose painter wife invites a bishop for dinner, only for the brakeman's bohemian friends to disrupt the evening with humorous consequences. Initially celebrated as an improvisational masterpiece, it was later revealed by Leslie in 1968 that the film was meticulously planned and rehearsed. Robert Frank, born in Zurich in 1924 and a U.S. immigrant since 1947, is renowned for his influential book The Americans, published in 1959, along with other significant works like Black White and Things and Lines of My Hand. He currently splits his time between New York City and Nova Scotia, Canada.