Paul Mazursky: beach house owner and accused drug dealer.
Polyester - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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The movie featured the regular actors and actresses that had appeared in John Waters movies who were an acting troupe ensemble known as "The Dreamlanders".
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Director William Castle was a hero of this film's director John Waters. Castle's movies frequently featured gimmicks and this inspired Waters to use the "Odorama" (Scratch 'n' Sniff Cards) gimmick for this movie.
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First of John Waters' movies in which Mary Vivian Pearce doesn't play a main character.
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This film and Female Trouble (1974) were the first feature films where Divine portrayed a character who was not called Divine.
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Todd Tomorrow (Tab Hunter) takes Francine Fishpaw (Divine) to an "intellectual" drive-in theatre showing three Marguerite Duras movies. In their next cinema movie collaboration, Lust in the Dust (1984), the name of the saloon cantina was "Marguerita's" which was named after it's owner Marguerita Ventura (Lainie Kazan).
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The make and model of Todd Tomorrow (Tab Hunter)'s flashy sports car was, according to the IMCDb, a white 1980 Chevrolet Corvette [C3] Coupé.
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The 23rd June 1981 edition of publication 'Us' stated that this movie was tenth film of director John Waters where in fact it was actually the eleventh.
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The look of the film was influenced by the work of 1950s director Douglas Sirk.
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Final feature film directed by John Waters until Hairspray (1988) where there was an interval of around seven years.
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This John Waters film differed from his earlier movies in that it was set in middle class suburbia as against the slum neighborhoods and bohemian culture of his previous pictures.
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In the scene where Todd Tomorrow (Tab Hunter) is standing around the car accident, real ambulances were used, and local people called the police, reporting an accident.
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Various residents of the suburban neighborhood this film was shot on location at appear as extras.
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The movie was made at an estimated cost of only US $300,000.
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Tab Hunter worked about ten days reportedly somewhere between one and two weeks
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Ken King was discovered in a bar.
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The movie's "smelling is believing" was a reference and/or parody of the earlier tagline seeing is believing" which is also the name of a 1941 mystery novel and an earlier British film Seeing Is Believing (1934)].
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First mainstream overground non-underground movie directed by John Waters.
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John Waters chose the Debbie Harry and Michael Kamen romantic song "The Best Thing" for Divine's Francine Fishpaw and Tab Hunter's Todd Tomorrow characters. It was sung by Bill Murray and lasts about one minute in the finished film.
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Reproduction scratch and smell "Odorama" cards were manufactured in 1999 by the Independent Film Channel so they could be used at John Waters revival film festival screenings.
Polyester - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Polyester - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Polyester - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Polyester - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Polyester - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Polyester - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Polyester - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Polyester - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Polyester - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Polyester - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Polyester - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Polyester - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Polyester - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Polyester - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Polyester - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Polyester - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Polyester - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Polyester - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Polyester - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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