“Milo is a railroad brakeman, his wife a painter. They have some poet friends who spend a good bit of time hanging out at their apartment. When Milo and his wife are visited by their bishop, they naturally would like their friends to be on their best behavior. But poets will be poets” (IMDB‘s plot synopsis)

Pull My Daisy is a 1959 short film directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie.  Jack Kerouac adapted the screenplay from the third act of a stage play he never finished entitled Beat Generation. With Kerouac providing narration, the film features Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers, Peter Orlovsky, David Amram, Richard Bellamy, Alice Neel, Sally Gross and Pablo, Frank’s then-infant son. Based on an incident in the life of Neal Cassady and his wife Carolyn, Daisy tells the story of a railway brakeman whose painter wife invites a respectable bishop over for dinner. However, the brakeman’s bohemian friends crash the party, with comic results. The work was praised for years as an improvisational masterpiece, until Leslie revealed in 1968 that the piece was actually carefully planned, rehearsed, and directed by him and Frank.