Editing Pull My Daisy (section)

== Production ==
Based on an incident in the life of Beat icon [[Neal Cassady]] and his wife, the painter [[Carolyn Cassady|Carolyn]], the film tells the story of a railway brakeman whose wife invites a respected bishop over for dinner. However, the brakeman's [[Bohemianism|bohemian]] friends crash the party, with comic results.

Originally intended to be called ''The Beat Generation'', the title ''Pull My Daisy'' was taken from the [[Pull My Daisy (poem)|poem of the same name]] written by Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Cassady in the late 1940s. Part of the original poem was used as a lyric in Amram's jazz composition that opens the film.

The Beat philosophy emphasized spontaneity, and the film conveyed the quality of having been thrown together or even improvised. ''Pull My Daisy'' was accordingly praised for years as an improvisational masterpiece.  It was filmed in Alfred Leslie's loft at Fourth Ave. & 12th St. in Manhattan.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Pull My Daisy|last=Kerouac|first=Jack|publisher=Grove Press|year=1961|pages=17}}</ref>

Leslie and Frank discuss the film at length in [[Jack Sargeant (writer)|Jack Sargeant]]'s book ''[[Naked Lens: Beat Cinema]]''. An illustrated transcript of the film's narration was also published in 1961 by Grove Press.