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After undergoing gender reassignment surgery, an aspiring actress travels to Hollywood, where she also wants to make a claim on her wealthy uncle's estate.After undergoing gender reassignment surgery, an aspiring actress travels to Hollywood, where she also wants to make a claim on her wealthy uncle's estate.After undergoing gender reassignment surgery, an aspiring actress travels to Hollywood, where she also wants to make a claim on her wealthy uncle's estate.
Robert P. Lieb
- Charlie Flager, Sr.
- (as Robert Lieb)
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- TriviaIt was not so much the box-office failure as the complete and utter critical savaging of this movie - a reception that could only be termed as "disastrous" - that wrecked the careers of writer and director Michael Sarne and Roger Herren. The critical and financial flop also seriously hurt Raquel Welch, who never achieved the true star status that had been predicted for her.
- GoofsApparently pieced together from different takes, Myra's blouse collar alternately appears fully outside, partially inside/outside and fully outside her jacket while she "depantses" Rusty in her office.
- Alternate versionsOriginally rated "X" when released in 1970. In 1978 the film edited to be re-rated "R".
- ConnectionsEdited from Dante's Inferno (1935)
- SoundtracksSecret Place
Music by John Phillips
Lyrics by John Phillips
Sung by Rex Reed (uncredited)
[Also sung by off-screen vocal group]
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What do you think I am, some kind of idiot?
Quite how this became Hollywood's most famously reviled and ridiculed creation is almost as mysterious as how such a bizarre film was ever made in the first place.
It's the story of a gay film critic knocked unconscious in a car accident who then dreams he has undergone a sex-change operation and been recreated in Raquel Welch's image. I managed to work that much out after two viewings, the first wondering what the hell I was seeing and the second spotting the few clues to the "plotline" that exist between the scenes of insane camp and bizarre sexual acts.
Somehow, through all the confusion and early '70s delirium, I found myself enjoying it. It is a ridiculous mess, but where else are you going to see the legendary John Huston receiving a brutal Swedish massage and Raquel Welch in glorious widescreen, Technicolor Panavision wearing a strap-on and cowgirl outfit ensemble? Not in Legally Blonde, I know that much.
It's the story of a gay film critic knocked unconscious in a car accident who then dreams he has undergone a sex-change operation and been recreated in Raquel Welch's image. I managed to work that much out after two viewings, the first wondering what the hell I was seeing and the second spotting the few clues to the "plotline" that exist between the scenes of insane camp and bizarre sexual acts.
Somehow, through all the confusion and early '70s delirium, I found myself enjoying it. It is a ridiculous mess, but where else are you going to see the legendary John Huston receiving a brutal Swedish massage and Raquel Welch in glorious widescreen, Technicolor Panavision wearing a strap-on and cowgirl outfit ensemble? Not in Legally Blonde, I know that much.
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- Also known as
- Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge
- Filming locations
- 6914 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA(Myron and Myra dancing on the street, Ann Miller's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame)
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- Budget
- $5,385,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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