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The Queen (1968)
Director: Frank Simon
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
An outlandish documentary which follows the arrival, preparation for, and participation in the 1967 Drag Miss All American Beauty Queen Contest of a bunch of international hopefuls. The men come into town, lounge about, then dress up and sally out on stage as girls. Breasts created by flesh-cramping sellotape squeeze out of swim-suits; rivalries created by a pursuit for the title shriek around backstage; Sylvia goes bananas and the audience go wild. A rocky horror show indeed.Author: HM
Cast & crew
Director: Frank Simon
Producer: Si Litvinoff, Don Herbert
Cast: Jack Doroshow, Richard Finochio, Crystal, Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, Edie Sedgewick, Terry Southern full cast
Genre(s): Documentaries
Duration: 68 mins
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