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Female Trouble is a 1974 film by Baltimore, Maryland filmmaker John Waters starring Divine, Edith Massey, Cookie Mueller, Mink Stole, Mary Vivian Pearce and David Lochary.

Dawn Davenport (Divine) is a troubled teen who wants nothing more for Christmas than a pair of cha-cha heels. When she doesn't get what she wants, she runs away from home and is promptly molested by a disgusting man in a fur cap (also Divine). She becomes pregnant with a daughter, Taffy (Mink Stole), and begins a life of crime with her two girlfriends (Cookie Mueller and Susan Walsh). One day, to cheer Dawn up, her friends advise her to get her hair done at the Lipstick Beauty Salon...a bizarre establishment run by 2 fascist weirdos, Donald and Donna Dasher (Lochary and Pearce). All potential customers have to be interviewed to have their hair done. Here, Dawn meets her future husband, Gator (Michael Potter), who styles hair at the salon.

Dawn clashes with Ida (Massey), her peroxide blonde, leather-clad lesbian neighbour, and aunt to Gator. When her marriage to Gator begins to turn sour, she falls in with Donald and Donna Dasher, who employ her as their 'crime model' and have a theory which equates excessive crime with ultimate glamour.

Ida, angry at Dawn for the departure of Gator, throws acid at Dawn's face. The Dashers persuade Dawn to retain the disfigured facial injury, making her believe that she is more beautiful than ever. Dawn becomes addicted to drugs, and embarks on a rampant cavalcade of criminal activity, which culminates in the death of her daughter and a theatre performance, where she shoots members of the audience. Dawn is eventually sentenced to death in the electric chair. The theme song was written by Waters to a pre-existing piece of music and sung by Divine.

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