Mary Vivian Pearce

Mary Vivian Pearce

Born: November 9, 1947
in Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Movies for Mary Vivian Pearce...

I Am Divine
Title: I Am Divine
Character: Self
Released: March 9, 2013
Type: Movie
Harris Glenn Milstead, aka Divine (1945-1988) was the ultimate outsider turned underground hero. Spitting in the face of the status quos of body image, gender identity, sexuality, and preconceived notions of beauty, Divine succeeded in becoming an internationally recognized icon, recording artist, and character actor of stage and screen. Glenn went from the often-mocked, schoolyard fat kid to underdog royalty, standing up for millions of gay men and women, drag queens and punk rockers, and countless other socially ostracized misfits and freaks. With a completely committed in-your-face style, he blurred the line between performer and personality, and revolutionized pop culture.
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A Dirty Shame
Title: A Dirty Shame
Character: Unjudgmental Ex-Sex Addict
Released: September 24, 2004
Type: Movie
Sylvia Stickles runs a convenience store with her husband and mother-in-law. One day, Sylvia is hit on the head and transforms from an uptight prude to a sex-crazed lunatic. As she goes on a rampage through town, Sylvia attracts the attention of Ray Ray, a sexual healer and tow truck driver in search of the world's greatest orgasm. Their sexual revolution, however, causes a class war in their tiny Baltimore community.
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Cecil B. Demented
Title: Cecil B. Demented
Character: Family Lady B
Released: August 2, 2000
Type: Movie
A young lunatic director and his devoted cult of cinema terrorists kidnap a Hollywood movie goddess and force her to stair in their radical underground movie.
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Pecker
Title: Pecker
Character: Homophobic Lady
Released: September 25, 1998
Type: Movie
A Baltimore teenager who picks up a second-hand camera starts snapping his way to stardom, soon turning into a nationwide sensation, with a fateful choice between his life and his art.
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Divine Trash
Title: Divine Trash
Character: Herself
Released: January 18, 1998
Type: Movie
The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters.
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Serial Mom
Title: Serial Mom
Character: Book Buyer
Released: April 13, 1994
Type: Movie
Beverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuclear family just might explode when her fascination with serial killers collides with her ever-so-proper code of ethics.
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Cry-Baby
Title: Cry-Baby
Character: Picnic Mother
Released: April 6, 1990
Type: Movie
A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her society grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
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Title: The Incredibly Strange Film Show
Character: Self
Released: August 5, 1988
Type: TV
A series of documentaries focusing on the world of psychotronic movies; focusing on the lives of filmakers such as Hershell Gordon Lewis, Saim Raimi, Doris Wishman, Ed Wood Jr, and Tsui Hark. Covers weird movie genres, like Mexican wrestling movies and Hong Kong horror films.
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Hairspray
Title: Hairspray
Character: Hairhopper Mother
Released: February 26, 1988
Type: Movie
'Pleasantly plump' teenager Tracy Turnblad achieves her dream of becoming a regular on the Corny Collins Dance Show. Now a teen hero, she starts using her fame to speak out for the causes she believes in, most of all integration. In doing so, she earns the wrath of the show's former star, Amber Von Tussle, as well as Amber's manipulative, pro-segregation parents. The rivalry comes to a head as Amber and Tracy vie for the title of Miss Auto Show 1963.
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Polyester
Title: Polyester
Character: Nun A
Released: May 29, 1981
Type: Movie
Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine Fishpaw turns to the bottle as her life falls apart -- until deliverance appears in the form of a hunk named Todd Tomorrow.
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Desperate Living
Title: Desperate Living
Character: Princess Coo-Coo
Released: May 27, 1977
Type: Movie
After killing her husband, Peggy Gravel and her murderous maid Grizelda, wind up in the crazy town of Mortville, where Queen Carlotta presides over a sleazy collection of misfits.
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Edith's Shopping Bag
Title: Edith's Shopping Bag
Character: Herself
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
An American short documentary video about the opening of Edith Massey's thrift store in Baltimore.
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Love Letter to Edie
Title: Love Letter to Edie
Character: Store Customer (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A documentary about actress Edith Massey in which she talks about her life and her career in film.
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Female Trouble
Title: Female Trouble
Character: Donna Dasher
Released: October 4, 1974
Type: Movie
Dawn Davenport progresses from a teenage nightmare hell-bent on getting cha-cha heels for Christmas to a fame monster whose egomaniacal impulses land her in the electric chair.
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Pink Flamingos
Title: Pink Flamingos
Character: Cotton
Released: March 17, 1972
Type: Movie
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".
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The Diane Linkletter Story
Title: The Diane Linkletter Story
Character: Lois Foerster Linkletter
Released: April 10, 1970
Type: Movie
This improvised film is based on the true-life suicide of TV personality Art Linkletter's daughter, Diane. Mr. and Mrs. Linkletter fret about their daughter's recent behaviour, which includes taking drugs and dating a lowlife named Jim. Eventually, the parents confront Diane… with tragic consequences.
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Multiple Maniacs
Title: Multiple Maniacs
Character: Bonnie / Cavalcade Patron
Released: April 10, 1970
Type: Movie
The Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling freak show, acts as a front for Divine, who is out for blood after discovering her lover's affair.
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Mondo Trasho
Title: Mondo Trasho
Character: The Bombshell / Cinderella
Released: March 14, 1969
Type: Movie
A day in the lives of a hit-and-run driver and her victim, and the bizarre things that happen to them before and after they collide (sexual assault by a crazed foot-fetishist, visions of the Virgin Mary, strange chicken-foot grafting operations).
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Eat Your Makeup
Title: Eat Your Makeup
Character: Kidnapped Model
Released: February 23, 1968
Type: Movie
John Waters' first sixteen-millimetre film, about a deranged nanny who kidnaps young girls and forces them to 'model themselves to death' in front of her boyfriend and their crazed friends. It was never shown commercially.
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Roman Candles
Title: Roman Candles
Character: Woman Attacked by Fan
Released: May 10, 1967
Type: Movie
Shot on 8mm, and featuring the introduction of Divine, John Waters' sophomore film is a plotless collage of random incidents involving sex, drugs, religion and The Wizard of Oz, it was shown with an equally random soundtrack mixing “obnoxious radio advertisements, rock 'n' roll and press conferences with Lee Harvey Oswald's mother”. It was shown three times publicly, but never released commercially.
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Hag in a Black Leather Jacket
Title: Hag in a Black Leather Jacket
Character: Bodie Green Dancer
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
The lurid wedding of a black man and white girl, with a Ku Klux Klansman performing the wedding ceremony. John Waters' first film, made on 8mm, given one showing (making back its budget of thirty dollars) before being retired to his closet.