Susan Lowe
Description
Things get rocky at the Gravel household when paranoid Peggy Gravel and her murderous maid, Grizelda, kill Peggy's husband. They escape from the law, only to wind up in the crazy town of MorTVille, where Queen Carlotta presides over a sleazy collection of misfits, including the vivacious Muffy St. Jacques. When the queen disinherits her daughter, Princess Coo-Coo, the citizens of MorTVille decide that it's time for a few changes.
Series
Criterion collection volume 929
Description
"Glamour has never been more grotesque than in Female Trouble, which injects the Hollywood melodrama with anarchic decadence. Divine, director John Waters' larger-than-life muse, engulfs the screen with charisma as Dawn Davenport, the living embodiment of the film's lurid mantra, 'Crime is beauty, ' who progresses from a teenage nightmare hell-bent on getting cha-cha heels for Christmas to a fame monster whose egomaniacal impuses land her in the electric...
Series
Criterion collection volume 863
Description
"John Waters' gloriously grotesque second feature is replete with all manner of depravity, from robbery to murder to one of cinema's most memorably blasphemous sequences. Made on a shoestring budget in Waters' native Baltimore, with the filmmaker taking on nearly every technical task, this gleeful mockery of the peace-and-love ethos of its era features the Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling show mounted by a troupe of misfits whose shocking proclivities...
4) I am Divine
Description
The dynamic, fun, and often poignant portrait of the legendary Divine. Learn about his humble beginnings as an overweight, teased Baltimore youth, and his rise to fame as an internationally recognized drag superstar.