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Queen of the Deuce

Summary Chelly Wilson escaped the Holocaust and built a porn cinema empire in New York City in the 1970s. Chelly was a Greek-born, Christmas-celebrating, Jewish grandma, who married men but was openly gay. This documentary charts her unlikely rise to wealth as a shrewd businesswoman on “The Deuce,” aka New York’s infamous 42nd Street.

Directed By: Valerie Kontakos

Written By: Valerie Kontakos, Despina Pavlaki, Christos Asteriou

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  • 2024
  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 1 h 18 m
  • 2024
  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 1 h 18 m

Queen of the Deuce

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Summary Chelly Wilson escaped the Holocaust and built a porn cinema empire in New York City in the 1970s. Chelly was a Greek-born, Christmas-celebrating, Jewish grandma, who married men but was openly gay. This documentary charts her unlikely rise to wealth as a shrewd businesswoman on “The Deuce,” aka New York’s infamous 42nd Street.

Directed By: Valerie Kontakos

Written By: Valerie Kontakos, Despina Pavlaki, Christos Asteriou

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May 24, 2024
An affectionate portrait of Chelly as a one-of-a-kind trailblazer who lived life to the fullest, and always on her own iconoclastic terms, all while also providing a vivid snapshot of New York City during its daring and dangerous pre-sanitized era.
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May 23, 2024
Psychotronic cinema fans may wish Queen of the Deuce spent more time on her celluloid stomping ground, and a bit less on family ties. Still, she did have a fascinating backstory, and surviving relatives’ (as well as some colleagues’) reminiscences are colorful.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
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May 23, 2024
The style is stilted, the look rudimentary, with Abhilasha Dewan’s cheeky animation supplying an occasional visual lift. Yet as Wilson’s former errand boy guides us around her onetime fiefdom — conjuring an area fizzing with smut until doused by Giuliani — we may sense the milieu, but its matriarch remains stubbornly indistinct.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Canada Media Fund (CMF), Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (CPTC), Documentary Channel, Exile Films, Greek Film Centre (GFC), Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), Jewish Story Partners, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Marni Films, Ontario Creates, Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC), Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS), Rogers Documentary Fund, Storyline Entertainment
Release Date May 24, 2024
Duration 1 h 18 m
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Website https://www.exile.gr/en/exile-films/
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Awards

Hellenic Film Academy Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
DocAviv Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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