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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)
- Director
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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]
Featured review
Raquel sinks her teeth into "Myra" with relish!
The widow of a gay movie critic hopes to collect on her husband's inheritance, which includes a drama school in Hollywood run by her in-law, Buck Loner, a faded cowboy star. Despite 20th Century-Fox keeping this thing under-wraps for years, the notorious "Myra Breckinridge" is finally beginning to get the recognition it deserves. This Hollywood satire is indeed a misfire, but it isn't a boring one. Based on Gore Vidal's acidic book, it's an amusingly trashy, wicked and low-down look at Hollywood's loss of morals; it isn't meant to be high-brow, and Raquel Welch is ballsy and bitchy as the gal who takes on Tinsel Town. Rex Reed is her alter-ego, John Huston is perfect as Uncle Buck, Mae West is dazed but ribald as a man-hungry talent agent, and Farrah Fawcett is a sweetly stoned ingénue. Vidal (who penned one of the first screenplay drafts himself before being kicked off the project) chastised the picture but, despite some choppy editing and an uncertain direction, it's a movie perfectly in-tune with the source material. After some 30 years, the times have finally caught up with "Myra Breckinridge". **1/2 from ****
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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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