Divine (performer)
Dawn Davenport / Earl Peterson
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In Baltimore in 1960, delinquent high-school student Dawn Davenport goes berserk when her parents refuse to buy her the cha-cha heels she wanted for Christmas. In a fit of rage, she topples the family Christmas tree on her mother, and storms out of the house barely even dressed.
Feb 15, 1976 · Female Trouble: Directed by John Waters. With Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole. A spoiled schoolgirl runs away from home, gets pregnant while hitch-hiking, and ends up as a fashion model for a pair of beauticians who like to photograph women committing crimes.
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- Comedy, Crime
- John Waters
- 1976-02-15
Dawn Davenport (Divine) is a rebellious bad-girl teenager who smokes cigarettes, uses hairspray, and doesn't care about school. Dawn and her two best friends, Chicklette (Susan Walsh) and Concetta (Cookie Mueller), discuss the upcoming Christmas holiday.
Female Trouble. 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 ...
- Dawn Davenport/Earl Peterson
Dawn Davenport! I'm a thief and a shitkicker, and, uh, I'd like to be famous. Dawn Davenport : I'm afraid I'm going to have to be the one to break the news to you, Taffy. I've thrown Gater out and started divorce proceedings.
Jun 26, 2018 · Written by Waters as a vehicle for the biggest player in his Dreamland Productions microstudio, Female Trouble is structured to show off the zaftig actor’s formidable range of comedic and even dramatic talent, as it charts protagonist Dawn Davenport’s arc from bratty suburban adolescent to electrocuted criminal.
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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 ...
