Myra Breckinridge (1970)

Directed by

Mike Sarne

Genre

LGBTQ-related film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

R

Rating

4.5 of 10 from 51 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A transgender woman named Myra Breckinridge gets a job at her uncle's acting school and tries to change Hollywood's social order through a strange curriculum. The film is based on a controversial novel and has many famous actors in it.

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What happens

Myra Breckinridge is a 1970 American comedy film based on Gore Vidal's 1968 novel of the same name. The film was directed by Michael Sarne, and featured Raquel Welch in the title role. It also starred John Huston as Buck Loner, Mae West as Leticia Van Allen, Farrah Fawcett, Rex Reed, Roger Herren, and Roger C. Carmel. Tom Selleck made his film debut in a small role as one of Leticia's "studs", and Dan Hedaya has his first uncredited appearance as a hospital patient. Theadora Van Runkle was costume designer for the film, though Edith Head designed West's costumes. Like the novel, the picture follows the exploits of Myra Breckinridge, a transgender woman who has undergone a sex change operation. Claiming to be her own widow, she manipulates her uncle Buck into giving her a position at his acting school, where she attempts to usurp Hollywood's social order by introducing femdom into the curriculum. The picture was controversial for its sexual explicitness (including acts like female-on-male rape), but unlike the novel, it received little to no critical praise and has been cited as one of the worst films ever made. In subsequent decades, the film has developed a cult following. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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