Song for Rent 1969

During 1969 screenings of No President at New York’s Elgin Theater, a color short directed by photographer Don Snyder preceded the feature. Warhol appears as his red‑wigged, plastic‑jawed alter‑ego Rose Courtyard, seated in a wheelchair amid the detritus of the Plaster Foundation, while Kate Smith’s “God Bless America” plays twice. Dressed in a red satin gown and clutching a bouquet of dead roses, Rose finally rises to salute. The film was later discovered in a can labeled “Song for Rent,” the title of a 1971 mixed‑media production in which Warhol also appeared.

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