Nice girls don't wear cha-cha heels.
Teenage delinquent Dawn Davenport, incensed after her parents do not give her the cha-cha heels she wanted for Christmas, runs away from home. After an illegitimate child and hairstylist husband bring her more misery, she's enticed into a life of crime when the owners of her husband's salon promise her fame and fortune.
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Comic, spare, cool and ironic.
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
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Cast
- DivineDawn Davenport / Earl Peterson
- David LocharyDonald Dasher
- Mary Vivian PearceDonna Dasher
- Mink StoleTaffy Davenport
- Edith MasseyAunt Ida
- Cookie MuellerConcetta
- Susan WalshChicklette
- Michael PotterGater
- Ed PeranioWink
- Paul SwiftButterfly
Crew
- John WatersDirector
- John WatersWriter
- John WatersDirector of Photography
- John WatersEditor
- Charles RoggeroEditor
- John WatersProducer
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