Eat Your Makeup
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Eat Your Makeup is a short film by filmmaker John Waters
starring Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce
, David Lochary
, and Maelcum Soul
.
It was John Waters' first film production made in 16mm film.
It has never been released on video. However, it was screened occasionally in 2004 as part of the touring exhibition John Waters: Change of Life.
) who kidnaps young girls and forces them to model themselves to death in front of her boyfriend (David Lochary
) and their crazed friends. It was never shown commercially.
John Waters (filmmaker)
John Samuel Waters, Jr. is an American filmmaker, actor, stand-up comedian, writer, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films...
starring Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce
Mary Vivian Pearce
Mary Vivian Pearce is an American actress. She has worked primarily in the films of John Waters.Pearce is the childhood best friend of John Waters and has appeared as an actress in all of his films. Because of her work with Waters, she is considered one of the Dreamlanders, Waters' ensemble of...
, David Lochary
David Lochary
David Crawford Lochary was one of the regular "Dreamlander" actors in early films of the controversial "trash" film director John Waters. He starred in such films as Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, and Multiple Maniacs, in which he typically played exotically-dressed, sophisticated perverts...
, and Maelcum Soul
Maelcum Soul
Maelcum Soul was a 1960s Baltimore, Maryland bohemian, artist, and an actress in two of filmmaker John Waters' earliest works, Roman Candles and Eat Your Makeup....
.
It was John Waters' first film production made in 16mm film.
It has never been released on video. However, it was screened occasionally in 2004 as part of the touring exhibition John Waters: Change of Life.
Plot
John Waters' first 16 mm film, about a deranged nanny (Maelcum SoulMaelcum Soul
Maelcum Soul was a 1960s Baltimore, Maryland bohemian, artist, and an actress in two of filmmaker John Waters' earliest works, Roman Candles and Eat Your Makeup....
) who kidnaps young girls and forces them to model themselves to death in front of her boyfriend (David Lochary
David Lochary
David Crawford Lochary was one of the regular "Dreamlander" actors in early films of the controversial "trash" film director John Waters. He starred in such films as Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, and Multiple Maniacs, in which he typically played exotically-dressed, sophisticated perverts...
) and their crazed friends. It was never shown commercially.
Cast
- Lizzy Temple Black as The Child Star
- Divine as Jackie Kennedy
- Howard Gruber as John F. KennedyJohn F. KennedyJohn Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
- David LocharyDavid LocharyDavid Crawford Lochary was one of the regular "Dreamlander" actors in early films of the controversial "trash" film director John Waters. He starred in such films as Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, and Multiple Maniacs, in which he typically played exotically-dressed, sophisticated perverts...
as Governess' boyfriend - Marina Melin as Head kidnapped model
- Mona Montgomery as Kidnapped model
- Mary Vivian PearceMary Vivian PearceMary Vivian Pearce is an American actress. She has worked primarily in the films of John Waters.Pearce is the childhood best friend of John Waters and has appeared as an actress in all of his films. Because of her work with Waters, she is considered one of the Dreamlanders, Waters' ensemble of...
as Kidnapped model - Maelcum SoulMaelcum SoulMaelcum Soul was a 1960s Baltimore, Maryland bohemian, artist, and an actress in two of filmmaker John Waters' earliest works, Roman Candles and Eat Your Makeup....
as Governess - John WatersJohn Waters (filmmaker)John Samuel Waters, Jr. is an American filmmaker, actor, stand-up comedian, writer, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films...