![]() ![]() Impressed with Divine’s performance, Eyen would once again cast him in the lead role of his next play The Neon Woman in which Divine played a retired stripper and owner of a Baltimore burlesque house. It was a hit upon release in New York City and resulted in second run in London. It is in this film that Divine famously ate the dog poop to the disgust (and apparent delight) of moviegoers.įrom 1976-1977 Divine portrayed the matron in the revival of Tom Eyen’s play Women Behind Bars (a satirical take on female prison movies). In the film Divine plays Babs Johnson, “the filthiest woman alive”, and is forced to defend that title against any and all challengers. From here the stage was set for Pink Flamingos (1972), arguably the most important (and trashiest) film of both John Waters’ and Divine’s careers. This was followed immediately after by Multiple Maniacs (1970) in which Divine played the role of the murderous Lady Divine who ran The Cavalcade of Perversion. Mondo Trasho (1969) was the pair’s first feature length film about a day in the life of a hit and run driver and her victim. With the seeds of bad taste firmly planted in the ground, it was only a matter of time before Divine and Waters would bloom into the trash icons we know and love today. That performance was followed up with Eat Your Makeup (1968), another short film in which Divine portrayed the widowed Jackie Kennedy reliving her husband’s assassination. Soon after that Divine starred in one of Waters’ early short films called Roman Candles (1966) in which he played a smoking nun. ![]() It was Waters that gave Glenn the name Divine along with the tagline “the most beautiful woman in the world, almost”, and it stuck. It was during this time that Glenn was introduced to John Waters and the two became fast friends, bonding with each other over a mutual admiration for counter-culturalism and the arts. After graduating high school in 1963 he went to beauty school to learn hair styling and began working in local salons. As a child Divine, or Glenn as he preferred to be called back then, was overweight and routinely bullied for his size and effeminacy. He also found success as a disco artist and was a celebrated stage actor and performer.īorn on October 19 th, 1945, Divine came from an upper middle-class background in Baltimore Maryland. March 7 marks the 34 th anniversary of the death of the beloved Harris Glenn Milstead, better known to us as Divine.Ī character actor at heart, Divine became a cult figure during the ’70s and ’80s for his over-the-top performances as female characters in a string of independent films directed by longtime collaborator John Waters. ![]()
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