Phranc
Biography
Phranc (born Susan Gottlieb) is an American singer-songwriter whose career began playing in a few LA punk bands in the late 1970s. In the 1980s she became a solo artist, turning into the self-proclaimed "All-American Jewish lesbian folksinger." She also became famous selling for Tupperware, a multi-level marketing scheme involving plasticware/kitchen storage but has stopped selling for the company since 2013.
Known For & Full Filmography5 Titles
Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • as Self - Catholic Discipline (Guitar)
The Los Angeles punk music scene circa 1980 is the focus of this film. With Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, and X.
Movie - 1993, 2h 15m • as Self
A positive mix of stand-up and sketch comedy by some of today's funniest gay and lesbian comedians. Filmed before a live audience at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall on October 11, 1993, National Coming Out Day.
Movie - 1997, 2h 15m • as Self
A document of the Riot Grrrl and Queercore scene in the 1990s.
Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • as Self
The rise to fame (and the near-fatal fall from it) of Patty Schemel, drummer for Courtney Love's seminal rock band, Hole. Given a Hi-8 video camera just before Hole's infamous Live Through This world tour, Patty captured stunningly intimate footage of the scene that has never been seen... until now. Not just an all-access backstage pass to the music that shaped a generation, Hit So Hard is a harrowing tale of overnight success, the cost of addiction, and ultimately, recovery and redemption.
Movie - 2001, 2h 15m • as Self
This engaging, long-unavailable documentary follows Phranc—a butch lesbian performer who rose to underground fame in LA’s punk scene before reinventing herself as “America’s favorite Jewish lesbian folk singer” and touring with acts like the Smiths and Hüsker Dü—as she embarks on her surprising new career: Tupperware saleswoman. Using her gregarious personality and performance experience, Phranc finds remarkable success and a newfound community hosting Tupperware parties, shooting straight to the top of the West Coast’s highest sellers. But what does it mean to be a gender-nonconforming queer woman in a business typically associated with the classic postwar suburban housewife? As the irrepressible Phranc herself puts it, “I can change closed minds just by showing up.”