Myra Breckinridge

Myra Breckinridge (1970)

Myron Breckinridge flies to Europe to get a sex-change operation and is transformed into the beautiful Myra. She travels to Hollywood, meets up with her rich Uncle Buck and, claiming to be Myron's widow, demands money. Instead, Buck gives Myra a job in his acting school. There, Myra meets aspiring actor Rusty and his girlfriend, Mary Ann. With Myra as catalyst, the trio begin to outrageously expand their sexual horizons.

Data de estreia
1970-06-24
TMDB
4.6 / 10 (57)
Duração
1 h 34 min
Géneros
Comédia
Realizador
Michael Sarne

Elenco

Curiosidades

  • Baseado em: Myra Breckinridge
  • Filmado em: Los Angeles

Myra Breckinridge is a 1970 American comedy film based on Gore Vidal's 1968 novel of the same name. The film was directed by Michael Sarne, and featured Raquel Welch in the title role. It also starred John Huston as Buck Loner, Mae West as Leticia Van Allen, Farrah Fawcett, Rex Reed, Roger Herren, and Roger C. Carmel. Tom Selleck made his film debut in a small role as one of Leticia's "studs", and Dan Hedaya has his first uncredited appearance as a hospital patient. Theadora Van Runkle was costume designer for the film, though Edith Head designed West's costumes.

Production

Film rights for Gore Vidal's novel Myra Breckinridge were sold for a reported $750,000 - $900,000 including a percentage of the profits and a fee covering Vidal writing the screenplay. Vidal wrote a draft, but the job was ultimately assigned to David Giler, who wrote a draft in three weeks. Vidal told Giler how much he liked the draft.

Michael Sarne had just made Joanna. 20th Century Fox's head of production, Dick Zanuck, said "he came to me when we had two lousy scripts and said he knew how to do it. He had some good ideas." Zanuck introduced Sarne to the film's producer, Robert Fryer, who was so impressed that the studio hired Sarne to write a script. The final draft of the script would be the tenth. The original director was Bud Yorkin.

The producers conducted approximately 15 to 20 screen tests with drag queens and straight actors for the title role. Warhol superstar Candy Darling also sought the role, and according to Jack Doroshow (Flawless Sabrina), Vidal supported the idea of casting her, having suggested that she be given an audition before Doroshow became involved, but she was not invited to audition.

Raquel Welch was cast in July 1969. The next major casting was Mae West, accepting her first film role since 1943. (She said she had turned down Pal Joey and The Art of Love.) West was introduced to producer Robert Fryer via George Cukor. "It's a return, not a comeback," said West. "I've never been away, just busy." The producers allowed her to rewrite her dialogue and sing some songs, including "Hard to Handle". She was paid $350,000.

Filming was laden with controversy due to Michael Sarne being granted complete control over the project. Sarne quickly went over budget due to his unorthodox techniques, which included spending up to seven hours at a time by himself, "thinking", leaving the cast to wait around on set for him to return so that filming could commence.

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