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The Filthiest Actress Alive

Posted in John Waters, Pink Flamingos with tags , , , , on September 9, 2010 by mmheidelberger

Film: Pink Flamingo’s

Director: John Waters

Release Year: 1972

What can I say?  My first feature was hastily yanked from the ‘too damn easy’ shelf, but I couldn’t resist starting off with the tasteless genius of John Waters.  In 1972, John Waters needed to make a name for himself; he did this by making a film about “The filthiest people on Earth”.  The result was Pink Flamingos, starring Divine.

The scene featured today is actually the infamous ending scene of the film itself, where Divine proves she’s the filthiest actress on Earth by demonstrating her shit-eating grin…literally!  She and her degenerate, white trash family are departing from Baltimore to Boise when they spot a man walking a dog.  Divine quickly appears behind the dog after it defecates on the sidewalk to consume the excrement, spits it out, smiles, THE END…

Scenes were captured by the DVD, New Line Home Entertainment