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| Myra Breckinridge
(1970) |
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94 minutes
Rated: R
Country: US
Studio: Fox
Cast: Raquel Welch, Rex Reed,
John Huston, Farrah Fawcett, Mae
West, Roger Herren, Tom Selleck
Director: Michael Sarne
Screenwriter: Gore Vidal,
David Giler, Michael Sarne |
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Synopsis |
Film buff Myron Breckinridge (Rex
Reed) goes to Europe and gets a
sex-change operation from a slovenly
chain-smoking doctor (John Carradine)
and returns to the United States as
the glamorous and willful Myra
Breckinridge (Raquel Welch). Myra
appears at the door of former cowboy
star-turned-acting school
entrepreneur Buck Loner (John
Huston), who also happened to be
Myron's uncle. Myra insists she's
Myron's widow and demands her fair
share of Loner's inheritance to her
late husband. Loner, suspicious of
the appearance of Myron's bride,
tries to find a way out of giving
her any of his money, while giving
Myra a job in his acting school to
keep her busy. Myra's new career
allows her to make the acquaintance
of Leticia Van Allen (Mae West), an
aging sexpot and talent agent who
represents "leading men only."
Through Leticia, Myra meets
alpha-male aspiring star Rusty
Godowsky (Roger Herren) and his
naïve girlfriend Mary Ann Pringle (Farrah
Fawcett). As part of her own bid to
ferment sexual anarchy, Myra
attempts to introduce Mary Ann to
the pleasures of lesbianism, while
forcibly expanding Rusty's sexual
boundaries.
From Gore Vidal's best-selling
novel. |
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