Queen of the Deuce
Shown as part of the Mandell JCC’s 28th Annual Phyllis Hoffman Hartford Jewish Film Festival Queen of the Deuce (2022, Not Rated) is a fascinating and colourful portrait of the Greece-born New York porn matriarch, Chelly Wilson. The film reveals Chelly’s origins as a taboo-breaking entrepreneur and traces the fraught events that lead to her departure from Europe on the eve of war, and the unconventional trajectories of her American business ventures and personal life.
