Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".
Sleaze queen Divine lives in a caravan with her mad hippie son Crackers and her 250-pound mother Mama Edie, trying to rest quietly on their laurels as 'the filthiest people alive'. But competition is brewing in the form of Connie and Raymond Marble, who sell heroin to schoolchildren and kidnap and impregnate female hitchhikers, selling the babies to lesbian couples. Finally, they challenge Divine directly, and battle commences...
Written by Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>
Elizabeth Coffey (Chick with a Dick) was a pre-op male-to-female transexual who had already undergone hormone therapy to develop breasts and female features at the time of filming. She had surgery to remove her penis a week to the day her scene was filmed, and appears as a completely female character in Waters' next film,
Female Trouble.
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Goofs
Continuity:
Throughout the film, the Marbles deliriously talk about their scheme to ruin Divine and seize her title of "Filthiest Person Alive". They refer to the attacks as a series of "phases" - phase one is the sending of the obscene parcel. Phase three is when Connie & Raymond are in the phone booth calling the police about Divine's rambunctious birthday party. But there is no "phase two".
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Quotes
[last lines]
Narrator/Mr. J:
"The filthiest people alive?" Well, you think you know someone filthier? Watch as Divine proves that not only is she the filthiest person in the world, she's also the filthiest actress in the world! What you are about to see is THE REAL THING! See more »
Crazy Credits
For Sadie, Katie, and Les- February 1972 (The Manson Family members Susan
Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten. February 1972 was the
month when the California State Supreme Court abolished the death penalty
in California (it was later reinstated), reducing the sentences of the
convicted Manson Family members to life imprisonment.)
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"Riot in Cell Block #9"
by Mike Stoller and Jerry Leiber Performed by The Robins Produced Under License from Atlantic Recording Corp., By Arrangemetn with Warner Special Products
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