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Bookmark this pageThe Queen (1968)
Director: Frank Simon
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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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