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Pat Hartley

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Pat Harley
Occupation(s)Film director, producer, actress
SpouseDick Fontaine
ChildrenSmokey Fontaine

Pat Hartley is a Hungarian-American actress, film director and producer. She was the featured in the Andy Warhol films Screen Test, My Hustler and Prison at Warhol's The Factory in the 1960s.[1][2] Hartley also appeared in the films Rainbow Bridge with Jimi Hendrix[1][2] and Absolute Beginners.[3]

She was married to filmmaker Dick Fontaine and together in New York they founded Grapevine Pictures, a film production company, in the 1980s and produced such films as the documentaries I Heard it Through the Grapevine featuring writer James Baldwin about his time in the American South during the civil rights era[4][5] and Art Blakey: The Jazz Messenger.[2]

Hartley and Fontaine are the parents of music critic Smokey Fontaine.[6]

Hartley has also co-directed, choreographed and written music videos for such musical artists as Johnny Rotten and Afrika Bambaataa as well as Keith LeBlanc.[1]

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  1. ^ a b c ""I Heard It Through the Grapevine" Screening and Conversation with Film Director Pat Hartley". Princeton University. November 13, 2024.
  2. ^ a b c "Dick Fontaine & Pat Hartley Collection". Harvard Film Archive. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  3. ^ "Pat Hartley". AllMovie.
  4. ^ Tillman, Lynne (January 25, 2024). "Pat Hartley and Lynne Tillman Reflect on James Baldwin's Centennial". Interview.
  5. ^ "I Heard It Through the Grapevine with James Baldwin". Harvard Film Archive. October 16, 2023.
  6. ^ Getlen, Larry (2006), "A Better Vibe", Wesleyan, no. IV, pp. 28–32
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