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Female Trouble
Teenage delinquent Dawn Davenport, incensed after her parents do not give her the cha-cha heels she wanted for Christmas, runs away from home. After an illegitimate child and hairstylist husband bring her more misery, she's enticed into a life of crime when the owners of her husband's salon promise her fame and fortune.
1976 · Directed by John Waters · 98 min · Comedy · Crime · 28 frames
Tagline
Nice girls don't wear cha-cha heels.
Crew
- Written by: John Waters
- Cinematography: John Waters
- Edited by: John Waters, Charles Roggero
- Production design: Vincent Peranio
- Produced by: John Waters
Cast
- Divine as Dawn Davenport / Earl Peterson
- David Lochary as Donald Dasher
- Mary Vivian Pearce as Donna Dasher
- Mink Stole as Taffy Davenport
- Edith Massey as Aunt Ida
- Cookie Mueller as Concetta
- Susan Walsh as Chicklette
- Michael Potter as Gater
- Ed Peranio as Wink
- Paul Swift as Butterfly
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Dreamland
- Budget: $25,000
- Box office: $9,118
- Themes: rape, parent child relationship, delinquent, black humor, run away, juvenile delinquent, campy, hitchhiking, drag, acid
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