I, a Man is an Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

Andrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...

 film featuring Warhol Superstars Tom Baker

Tom Baker (American actor)

Tom Baker was an American actor who starred in the Andy Warhol movie I, A Man . He was a known drug addict and alcoholic, and a close friend of Jim Morrison of The Doors....

, Ivy Nicholson, Ingrid Superstar, Cynthia May, Bettina Coffin, Ultra Violet, Nico

Nico

Nico was a German singer, lyricist, composer, musician, fashion model, and actress, who initially rose to fame as a Warhol Superstar in the 1960s...

, and Valerie Solanas

Valerie Solanas

Valerie Jean Solanas was an American radical feminist writer, best known for her attempted murder of Andy Warhol in 1968. She wrote the SCUM Manifesto, which called for male gendercide and the creation of an all-female society.-Early life:Solanas was born in Ventnor City, New Jersey, to Louis...

. The latter appeared in the film as compensation for a script she had given to Warhol called Up Your Ass, which he had lost. Solanas would later shoot Warhol.

According to a 2004 biography of Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison

James Douglas "Jim" Morrison was an American musician, singer, and poet, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band The Doors...

, Morrison had agreed to appear in this film opposite Nico, but the management of The Doors

The Doors

The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger...

 talked him out of it. Morrison then referred drinking buddy Tom Baker to Warhol.

The title of this film is a parody of the erotic

Erotica

Erotica are works of art, including literature, photography, film, sculpture and painting, that deal substantively with erotically stimulating or sexually arousing descriptions...

 Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 film I, a Woman (1965), starring Essy Persson

Essy Persson

Essy Persson is a Swedish actress born 15 June 1941 in Gothenburg . In 1968 she appeared in the Radley Metzger film Therese and Isabelle, and in 1971 in Want So Much To Believe.- External links :...

, which had opened in the U.S. in October 1966.