Phyllis Altenhaus
Phyllis Smith Altenhaus worked as a secretary to music producer Tom Wilson in the late 1960s.
Frank Zappa
Phyllis Altenhaus is presumably the name "Fyllis", mentioned by Zappa in the sleeve of Freak Out! (1966), under the heading: "These People Have Contributed Materially In Many Ways To Make Our Music What It Is. Please Do Not Hold It Against Them". [1] (Another suggested person is Phyllis Rubino, a teacher at Zappa's school who had a rock with a sign on it that read: Help, I'm a Rock, which inspired Zappa to his song Help, I'm A Rock[2] )
Altenhaus assisted with the editing of the Uncle Meat movie in which she plays "herself" and Sheba Flieschman, being seduced by Don Preston and hamburgers. Parts of her contribution to the film can be heard on the CD reissue of Uncle Meat. She also appears in Video From Hell (1987) and The True Story Of 200 Motels (1989).
Other career
Althenhaus continued working as a film editor on Woodstock (1970), New York, New York (1977) and The Warriors (1979). She played herself in the film "Summer Run" (1974).
