This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An Unfinished Biography

Synopsis

Unpredictably, as most of my life’s key events have been, for a period of several years of late sixties and early seventies, I had the fortune to spend some time, mostly during the summers, with Jackie Kennedy’s and her sister Lee Radziwill’s families and children. Cinema was an integral, inseparable, as a matter of fact, a key part of our friendship. The time was still very close to the untimely, tragic death of John F. Kennedy. Jackie wanted to give something to her children to do, to help to ease the transition, life without a father. One of her thoughts was that a movie camera would be fun for children. Peter Beard, who was at that time tutoring John Jr. and Caroline in art history, suggested to Jackie that I was the man to introduce the children to cinema. Jackie said yes. And that’s how it all began

Main Cast

Jacqueline Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Age : 64 | Popularity : 6%

John F. Kennedy, Jr.

Self (archive footage)

Age : 38 | Popularity : 3%

Caroline Kennedy

Self

Age : 66 | Popularity : 3%

Lee Radziwill

Self

Age : 85 | Popularity : 7%

Andy Warhol

Self (archive footage)

Age : 58 | Popularity : 7%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Jonas Mekas
Writing	Writer	Jonas Mekas
Editing	Editor	Jonas Mekas
Production	Producer	Jonas Mekas
Department	Role	Name

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