Queen of the Deuce
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Actor: Chelly Wilson, Bondi Walters, Don Walters
Director: Valerie Kontakos
Country: Greece, Canada, Switzerland
Quality: HD
Duration: 1h 18m
Release: 2023
IMDb: 7.7/10
Chelly Wilson was a Christmas-celebrating Jewish grandma, a lesbian who married men, and a proud owner of porn theaters in 1970s NYC. Through audio recordings, Chelly recounts her pre-war escape from Greece up through her unlikely motherhood and rise to wealth as a shrewd businesswoman on “The Deuce,” aka New York’s infamous 42nd Street. Fascinating WWII and NYC archival footage illustrate this entertaining story of a family and its matriarch, a truly unique character with chutzpah in spades.
