Eat Your Makeup is a 1968 short film directed by John Waters, starring Marina Melin, Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary, Howard Gruber, and Maelcum Soul.

It was John Waters' first film production to be shot on 16mm film; his prior films were shot on 8mm stock.

Eat Your Makeup

The film has never been shown commercially, or released on home video. However, since 2004 it has been screened occasionally as part of various John Waters touring art exhibitions.

Eat Your Makeup

Plot

A deranged nanny (Maelcum Soul) kidnaps young girls and forces them to model themselves to death in front of her boyfriend (David Lochary) and their crazed friends. One of the spectators (Divine) fantasizes that he is Jackie Kennedy, and relives the JFK assassination in his mind.

Eat Your Makeup

Cast

Lizzy Temple Black as The Child Star

Divine as Jackie Kennedy

Howard Gruber as John F. Kennedy

David Lochary as Governess' boyfriend

Marina Melin as Head kidnapped model

Mona Montgomery as Kidnapped model

Mary Vivian Pearce as Kidnapped model

Maelcum Soul as Governess

Otts Munderloh as the Chauffeur

John Waters

See also

List of American films of 1968

External links

1968 films

American black-and-white films

Films directed by John Waters

1968 comedy films

1968 short films

Cultural depictions of John F. Kennedy

Cultural depictions of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

American comedy short films

1960s English-language films

1960s American films