LITTLE JOE SUPERSTAR: THE FILMS OF JOE DALLESANDRO

Laguna Hills, California: Companion, 1998. First Edition. Signed by Ferguson on the title page and by Dallesandro ("To Jeff, 7-14-98") on a portrait frontispiece. Joseph Angelo Dallesandro III ("Little Joe") is an American actor and Andy Warhol superstar, having also crossed over into mainstream roles like mobster Lucky Luciano in The Cotton Club, Dallesandro is generally considered to be the most famous male sex symbol of American underground films of the 20th century, as well as a sex symbol of gay subculture. Dallesandro starred in the 1968 film produced by Andy Warhol, Flesh, as a teenage street hustler. Rolling Stone magazine in 1970 declared his (truncated) second starring vehicle, Trash, the "Best Film of the Year", making him a star of the youth culture, sexual revolution and subcultural New York City art collective of the 1970s. Dallesandro also starred in 1972's Heat, another Warhol film that was conceived as a parody of Sunset Boulevard. This book was signed a the 1998 Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Lon Angeles, California, on July 14, 1998. An uncommon book, especially signed by the author and subject. Quarto: pictorial white cardboard warps; 214 pages. Illustrated.. Very Good (covers nice; contents clean & tight). (Inventory #: 57389)