Female Trouble (1975)
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A riotously funny bad-taste epic from director John Waters, Baltimore's "Prince of Puke," this sick classic tells the depraved life story of obese criminal Dawn Davenport (Divine), from her bad-girl youth as a go-go dancer on Baltimore's infamous Block to her death in the electric chair. Mink Stole is terrific as Dawn's bratty daughter Taffy, conceived following a romp on a junkyard mattress with a fat derelict in soiled underpants (also played by Divine). Mary Vivian Pearce and David Lochary co-star as crazed owners of a beauty-parlor who are convinced that "crime equals beauty," and they take Dawn under their wings, forcing her to mainline liquid eyeliner to enhance her appeal. Edith Massey steals the film as Dawn's obsessive neighbor, Ida, who wants her nephew to be gay (because heterosexuals lead "sick and boring lives") and throws acid in Dawn's face when she marries him. A hilariously appalling film, Female Trouble is just as disgusting and far funnier than Waters' previous Pink Flamingos, if not as notorious. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Divine - Dawn Davenport
- David Lochary - Donald Dasher
- Mink Stole - Taffy Davenport
- Cookie Mueller - Concetta
- Michael Potter - Gater
- Paul Swift - Butterfly
- Susan Lowe - Vikki
- Roland Hertz - Dawn's Father
- Hilary Taylor - Taffy as Child
- Seymour Avigdor - Defense Lawyer
- Danny Mills
- Divine - Earl Peterson
- Mary Vivian Pearce - Donna Dasher
- Edith Massey - Ida Nelson
- Susan Walsh - Chiclett
- Ed Peranio - Wink
- George Figgs - Dribbles
- George Hulse - Teacher
- Betty Woods - Dawn's Mother
- Channing Wilroy - Prosecutor
- Elizabeth Coffey - Earnestine
- Sally Turner - Divine's double
- Director(s):
- John Waters
- Writer(s):
- John Waters
- Producer(s):
- John Waters
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