“Carol Doda Topless At The Condor” Available To Buy Or Rent On All Digital Platforms May 17

Los Angeles, CA – May 17, 2024 – Bring the va va voom home. Experience the phenomenal, titillating story of the daring young woman who ignited the flames of the 1960s sexual revolution in Picturehouse’s “Carol Doda Topless at the Condor.” Adored by audiences and critics alike, with a 96% score on Rotten Tomatoes, the film will be available to watch at home on all digital platforms beginning May 17th. Pre-orders are available now on Apple TV.

Against the backdrop of the 1964 Republican National Convention, a San Francisco cocktail waitress became one of the city’s most popular entertainers after making her debut as America’s first topless dancer. The new documentary feature “Carol Doda Topless at the Condor” tells the story of the fresh-faced girl next door who defied convention and the law by gyrating atop a white baby grand piano and turning a North Beach nightclub into the city’s second-most-popular tourist attraction after the Golden Gate Bridge.

Directors Marlo McKenzie and Jonathan Parker share an unprecedented look at Doda’s life and legacy and a behind-the-scenes tour of the vibrant, sometimes outrageous, and always entertaining world of North Beach.

Based in part on ‘Three Nights at the Condor,’ a memoir by Benita Mattioli, the wife of Condor co-owner Pete Mattioli, “Carol Doda Topless at the Condor” brings together a compelling array of Doda’s contemporaries, including dancers, club owners, bartenders, and others, who share their first-hand experiences. The film also features interviews with academics who have studied Doda’s role in redefining attitudes toward female nudity, as well as candid, fascinating interviews with Doda herself.

“Carol Doda Topless at the Condor” will be available to buy or rent on all platforms this Friday, May 17th. The film is rated “R” by the MPAA for nudity/graphic nudity throughout, some sexual material, language, and drug content. The run time is approximately 100 minutes. The film was co-directed by Marlo McKenzie and Jonathan Parker ((“Untitled”)), “Bartleby”) and produced by McKenzie, Parker, Vincent Palomino, and Lars Ulrich, Metallica co-founder and drummer.