Divine carries Mary Vivian Pearce in this ad for John Waters' "gutter film," Mondo Trasho. Little Richard, the film's patron saint. After several years of making experimental short films like Hag in a Black Leather Jacket and Eat Your Makeup in the mid-to-late 1960s, Baltimore filmmaker John Waters finally took the feature-length plunge in 1969 with his dreamlike, almost plotless epic Mondo Trasho. But in those days, Waters was operating on such a low budget that he couldn't even afford to…
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