Tag: Edith Massey

Here are two photos, inspired by a shocking exposition in the local paper.   The first is of underground movie actress, Edith Massey, in a scene from the notoriously unfashionable movie, “Pink Flamingos.” Edith has committed the fashion crime of allowing her breasts to actually touch! Photo 2, Actress Sofía Vergara at a Hollywood premier,…

Through occasional magazine articles, John Waters’ writings and stories, a few paragraphs in movie databases and my short film, “Love Letter to Edie,” brief snippets of Edith Massey’s life story have drifted along the edges of hipster culture in the thirty-three years since her underground movie debut in Waters’ “Multiple Maniacs” (April 10, 1970). Since…

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Elinor Cahn made a series of similar photos in the late ’60s early ’70s Baltimore Renaissance period.  This time was marked by John Waters first film successes, downtown $1 homes, and a hipster migration to Fells Point that began its re-birth. Sensing a monumental change, Cahn prowled the remaining ethnic enclaves of East Baltimore, Fells…

I hadn’t seen many of the photos in this collection, some from her last years.  Friend and collaborator, George Stover, who had bit parts in many Waters movies (Bosley Gravel in Desperate Living) is featured in several.  Others are from her shop in California where she hoped to fare better than Baltimore. http://www.flickr.com/photos/harald-haefker/galleries/72157628622685413/

Yesterday while snooping through my office shelves, I pulled out a book by one Morris Grodsky, titled The Home Boy’s  Odyssey: The Saga of the Journey from Orphan Boy to Criminalist.  The title page was inscribed “To Robert Maier with appreciation for your efforts on behalf of my sister Edith (Edie)”. Yes, Morris was Edith…