Divine
Biography: Divine (19 October 1945 – 7 March 1988), né Harris Glenn Milstead, was an American actor, singer and drag queen. Described by People magazine as the "Drag Queen of the Century", Divine often performed female roles in both cinema and theater and also appeared in women's clothing in musical performances. Even so, he considered himself to be a character actor and performed male roles in a number of his later films. He was often associated with independent filmmaker John Waters and starred in ten of Waters's films, usually in a leading role. Concurrent with his acting career, he also had a successful career as a disco singer during the 1980s, at one point being described as "the most successful and in-demand disco performer in the world." Born in Baltimore, Maryland, into a conservative, wealthy middle class family, he became involved with John Waters and his acting troupe, the Dreamlanders, in the mid-1960s and starred in a number of Waters's early films such as Mondo Trasho, Multiple Maniacs, Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble. These films have since become cult classics. In the 1970s, Milstead made the transition to theater and appeared in a number of productions, including Women Behind Bars and The Neon Woman, while continuing to star in such films as Polyester, Lust in the Dust and Hairspray. The New York Times said of Milstead's '80s films: "Those who could get past the unremitting weirdness of Divine's performance discovered that the actor/actress had genuine talent, including a natural sense of comic timing and an uncanny gift for slapstick." He was also described as "one of the few truly radical and essential artists of the century… was an audacious symbol of man's quest for liberty and freedom." Since his death, Divine has remained a cult figure, particularly with those in the LGBT community.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 19, 1945
Deathday: March 07, 1988
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Known For
Pink Flamingos
1972-03-17
Pink Flamingos
Overview: 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".
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-17
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Out of the Dark
1988-06-02
Out of the Dark
Overview: A deranged killer wearing a clown mask begins preying on a group of young women working at a phone-sex company.
Genres: Comedy Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-02
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Trouble in Mind
1985-12-11
Trouble in Mind
Overview: The lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the hypnotic Rain City.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-11
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Female Trouble
1974-10-04
Female Trouble
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-04
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Polyester
1981-05-29
Polyester
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-29
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Divine: Shoot Your Shot & Live at the Hacienda
2000-01-01
Divine: Shoot Your Shot & Live at the Hacienda
Overview: This DVD combines two concerts filmed at the Hacienda in 1983. Both were previously available on separate VHS releases. Shoot Your Shot is more dimly lit, but Divine really revs up the show toward the end, with the audience crowding the stage for the closing "Love Reaction." Recorded nine months earlier, Live at the Hacienda is better lit and Divine is more animated throughout. Both concerts feature a hardworking, sweating Divine obscenely bantering with the audience. Both concerts are about 40 minutes and feature Divine performing "Jungle Jezebel," "Born to be Cheap," "Alphabet Rap" and more.
Genres: Documentary Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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The Neon Woman
1990-01-01
The Neon Woman
Overview: Produced in 1978, The Neon Woman is an “outrageous murder mystery” set in a run-down Baltimore burlesque house managed by a retired stripper, Flash Storm, the hottest stripper that ever lived who has gone legit, opened her own strip joint, and is trying to cope with whatever comes along. There's Kitty Larue, the stripper with an identity problem. There's the horny bible thumping senator who wants to pray with Divine but really wants something less spiritual. Finally, Divine's young virgin daughter returns from boarding school and within minutes is turned into an alcoholic, heroin addicted stripper who has been betrothed to the black janitor. There's more but as the cliché goes, it has to be seen to be believed! By the time of it's VHS release, the 12 year old live footage was already a bit raw and gritty, but still gives more than a fair idea as to why Divine was so loved as a performer. The production ran for eighty-four performances at the Hurrah Discotheque, New York.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Lust in the Dust
1985-03-01
Lust in the Dust
Overview: Assaulted by Third World outlaws, donkey-riding Rosie joins a silent drifter's search for gold.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-01
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Tab Hunter Confidential
2015-03-15
Tab Hunter Confidential
Overview: Throughout the 1950s, Tab Hunter reigned as Hollywood’s ultimate male heartthrob. But throughout his years of stardom, Tab had a secret. Tab Hunter was gay, and spent his Hollywood years in a precarious closet that repeatedly threatened to implode and destroy him. Tab Hunter himself shares first hand, for the first time, what it was like to be a studio manufactured movie star during the Golden Age of Hollywood and the consequences of being someone totally different from his studio manufactured image.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-15
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Divine Trash
2000-03-31
Divine Trash
Overview: The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-31
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DIVINE R.I.P.
2007-08-09
DIVINE R.I.P.
Overview: Drag Queen Divine Tribute
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-09
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My Life with the Waters
My Life with the Waters
Overview: Vito Zagarrio, who in 1985 directed the famous documentary "Divine Waters", after 40 years goes again through it's relationship with John Waters and it's family, giving a new and intimate insight.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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I Am Divine
2013-03-09
I Am Divine
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-09
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The Alternative Miss World
1980-09-18
The Alternative Miss World
Overview: A filmed record of the 1978 "Alternative Miss World" beauty pageant held in a circus tent on Clapham Common in South London.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-18
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Discolocos
2016-12-31
Discolocos
Overview: The high energy movement in Mexico is visited without prejudice through its places and its protagonists. The icon Pascal Languirand is one of them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-12-31
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Queen: The Magic Years vol. 3
1987-11-30
Queen: The Magic Years vol. 3
Overview: This anthology chronicles Queen's 16 years. Footage includes "Live Aid" and the 1986 tour.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-30
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Queen: The Magic Years vol. 1
1987-11-30
Queen: The Magic Years vol. 1
Overview: This video is the first of a three volume documentary on the band.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-30
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Queen: Magic Years - A Visual Anthology
1987-11-30
Queen: Magic Years - A Visual Anthology
Overview: This video trilogy documents the music group Queen. Videos in this set are Magic Years Vol. 1 - The Foundations Magic Years Vol. 2 - Live Killers in the Making Magic Years, Vol. 3 - Crowned in Glory
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-30
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The British Guide to Showing Off
2011-11-11
The British Guide to Showing Off
Overview: Documentary about British artist Andrew Logan as he attempts to put on the 2009 edition of his Alternative Miss World. The film also presents a history of the contest (which has run eccentrically since 1972) which was set up firstly as an excuse to have a good party, but has grown into a celebration of alternative lifestyles and sexualities. The documentary mixes archive footage, animated inserts, with talking head interviews and a fly-on-the-wall look at the organisation of the 2009 event
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-11
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Howard
2018-04-22
Howard
Overview: Though legendary lyricist Howard Ashman died far too young, his impact on Broadway, movies, and the culture at large were incalculable. Told entirely through rare archival footage and interviews with Ashman’s family, friends, associates, and longtime partner Bill Lauch, Howard is an intimate tribute to a once-in-a-generation talent and a rousing celebration of musical storytelling itself.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-22
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The Cockettes
2002-01-16
The Cockettes
Overview: Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-16
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Disclosure
2020-06-19
Disclosure
Overview: An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-06-19
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Night Flight: Born Again
2016-04-10
Night Flight: Born Again
Overview: Documentary tribute to what VH1 called “the single greatest rock omnibus program ever aired” and Brooklyn Vegan named “the most consistently weird and awesome thing on cable television in the ’80s.” This ‘Best Of’ episode features some of the most memorable moments of Night Flight's near-decade long run including restored interviews and segments from Kate Bush, New Wave Theatre, David Lynch, Prince, Wendy O Williams, Divine, Billy Idol, Johnny Rotten, and much more Night Flight treasures from the archive.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-10
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Uncle Bob
2010-06-26
Uncle Bob
Overview: Robert Oppel's documentary about the life and murder of his uncle and namesake, Robert Opel, the man who streaked the Academy Awards in 1974.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-26
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Tally Brown, New York
1979-05-04
Tally Brown, New York
Overview: Tally Brown, New York is a 1979 documentary film directed, written and produced by Rosa von Praunheim. The film is about the singing and acting career of Tally Brown, a classically trained opera and blues singer who was a star of underground films in New York City and a denizen of its underworld in the late 1960s. In this documentary, Praunheim relies on extensive interviews with Brown, as she recounts her collaboration with Andy Warhol, Taylor Mead and others, as well as her friendships with Holly Woodlawn, and Divine. Brown opens the film with a cover of David Bowie’s “Heroes” and concludes with “Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide.” The film captures not only Tally Brown’s career but also a particular New York milieu in the 1970s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-05-04
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Underground and Emigrants
1976-10-25
Underground and Emigrants
Overview: In this film, outspokenly homosexual filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has documented his encounters with friends in the New York "underground" arts movement, the better-known of whom are William Burroughs (who says nothing for the camera), Andy Warhol (seen in the distance) and Fernando Arrabal (who is interviewed in Spanish). The emigrants named in the title are notable Germans who left the country before World War II, such as Greta Keller and Grete Mosheim. Reviewers at the time of the film's release considered it to have been a sort of paid vacation for the filmmaker rather than a serious effort. (Clarke Fountain, Rovi)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-10-25
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Divine: Shoot Your Shot
1995-01-01
Divine: Shoot Your Shot
Overview: This show was filmed in Manchester, England in 1983, just as Divine's recording career was taking off, and shows him at his tasteless and tacky best. From his appearance in 1966 in his first John Waters film until his death in 1988, Divine always courted controversy. Love him or hate him you can't help but find him talented and very funny.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Divine: Live at the Hacienda
1994-01-01
Divine: Live at the Hacienda
Overview: On 16 February 1983, Divine performs a seven-song set at the Hacienda Club in Manchester. His peroxide blond hair sticks in all directions; he's dressed in a skin-tight, short, off-one-shoulder, sparkling dress that he says he got from the Queen, who wouldn't wear it. The set includes Gang Bang (the name-game song), Jungle Jezebel, Born To Be Cheap, Alphabet Rap, Native Love, Shake It Up, and, for an encore, Shoot Your Shot. The band, whom we never see, is techno-rock. Between songs, Divine chats up the audience, usually talking about sex.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Rhythm Divine - History of Disco Music
1992-09-20
Rhythm Divine - History of Disco Music
Overview: The evolution of disco music through interviews and clips - Acid House, House, Disco, Funk, Italo-Disco, Italodance. Interviewed – Baby Ford, Deee-Lite, Frankie Knuckles, Mark Moore, Mel Cheren Featuring 5000 Volts, Amii Stewart, Anita Ward, Baby Ford, Bananarama, Black Box, Cerrone, Communards, The, Deee-Lite, Donna Summer, Eartha Kitt, Edwin Starr, Evelyn Champagne King, Evelyn Thomas, Farm, The, Giorgio Moroder, Gloria Gaynor, Hot Gossip, Hues Corporation, Isaac Hayes, Kool And The Gang, Kylie Minogue, M, Michael Zager, Miguel Brown, Musique, New Order, Odyssey, S'Express, Shannon, Shirley & Co, Sylvester, Three Degrees, Trammps, Van Mccoy, Village People
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-20
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In Bad Taste
1999-09-03
In Bad Taste
Overview: A documentary on the career of filmmaker John Waters. Featuring interviews with actors and fellow film-makers. The life and death of the actor Divine is also discussed.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-03
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Hairspray
1988-02-26
Hairspray
Overview: '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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-26
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Multiple Maniacs
1970-04-10
Multiple Maniacs
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-10
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Eat Your Makeup
1968-02-23
Eat Your Makeup
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-23
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Mondo Trasho
1969-03-14
Mondo Trasho
Overview: 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).
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-14
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Roman Candles
1967-05-10
Roman Candles
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-10
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The Diane Linkletter Story
1970-04-10
The Diane Linkletter Story
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-10
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Divine Waters
1985-01-01
Divine Waters
Overview: This documentary focuses on the careers of influential partners in trash film, John Waters and Divine. The film includes interviews with Waters' parents and sister, actress Edith Massey sings two songs (Punks, Get off the Grass and Fever), as well as a live performance of Divine performing his song Born to be Cheap.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Soul Ache
1998-08-14
Soul Ache
Overview: Aitor is a director making a film about a lonely man looking for love, called “Soul Ache.” While he uses his auditions to meet women, he really longs to cast actress Myriam Mezieres in the film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-08-14
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BEAT. Contour. Snatched. How Drag Queens Shaped the Biggest Makeup Trends
2018-12-11
BEAT. Contour. Snatched. How Drag Queens Shaped the Biggest Makeup Trends
Overview: How drag queens sharing tips and tricks in dressing rooms shaped the face of today’s mainstream makeup industry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-11
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Studio 54
2018-06-15
Studio 54
Overview: Studio 54 was the epicenter of 70s hedonism - a place that not only redefined the nightclub, but also came to symbolize an entire era. Its co-owners, Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell, two friends from Brooklyn, seemed to come out of nowhere to suddenly preside over a new kind of New York society. Now, 39 years after the velvet rope was first slung across the club's hallowed threshold, a feature documentary tells the real story behind the greatest club of all time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-15
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Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010-05-04
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
Overview: For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-04
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