Myra Breckinridge
Cast & Crew
Michael Sarne
Mae West
John Huston
Raquel Welch
Rex Reed
Farrah Fawcett
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
When New York film critic Myron Breckenridge undergoes a sex-change operation in Copenhagen, he ceases to exist, except as a white-suited phantom alter ego that hovers around his new identity, Myra Breckenridge, the All-American Woman whom "no man will ever possess." Myra, posing as the "late" Myron's widow, arrives at her Uncle Buck Loner's acting academy in Westwood, California, to claim an inheritance of half the land on which the ex-cowboy star has created his lavish training ground for screenstruck Hollywood hopefuls. Outraged, Buck and his attorneys begin a series of desperate legal attempts to invalidate her claim; meanwhile, Myra is offered a position on the faculty as instructress for a posture and empathy class. The crusading Myra begins her true quest: the ruination of American manhood. After ingratiating herself with a young acting student, Rusty, she lures him to the infirmary after hours so they may be alone. On the pretext of measuring him for a special orthopedic brace, Myra straps the naked Rusty to an operating table and rapes him mercilessly from the rear, whipping him in the process. Later, the disillusioned youth ends up at the beach retreat of singer and talent agent Leticia Van Allen, who finds him the best in a long and illustrious list of studs. Mary Ann, Rusty's adoring girl friend, is distraught over his behavior and comes to Myra for consolation, but instead her teacher tries to seduce her. When the attorneys discover that no evidence exists of Myron's marriage or demise, Myra hoists her skirt and reveals to the shocked witnesses the scar from her operation. After leaving the estate, she is hit by a car but awakens in the hospital as Myron. He is disturbed to find himself without large breasts, but later he seems resigned to coexistence with his feminine counterpart as he and Myra dance down the street together.
Director
Michael Sarne
Cast
Mae West
John Huston
Raquel Welch
Rex Reed
Farrah Fawcett
Roger C. Carmel
Roger Herren
George Furth
Calvin Lockhart
Jim Backus
John Carradine
Andy Devine
Grady Sutton
Robert Lieb
Skip Ward
Kathleen Freeman
B. S. Pully
Buck Kartalian
Monty Landis
Tom Selleck
Peter Ireland
Nelson Sardelli
William Hopper
Genevieve Waite
Charlene Jones
Crew
L. B. Abbott
Del Acevedo
Jeff Alexander
Reg Allen
Don Bassman
Ralph Beaumont
James Cresson
Art Cruickshank
Hugh K. Cummings
David Dockendorf
William Eckhardt
Jack Elliott
Allyn Ferguson
Robert Fryer
David Giler
Richard Glassman
Danford B. Greene
Fred Harpman
Edith Head
Alvertis Isbell
Allen Jones
Edith Lindon
Michael Mclean
Richard Moore
Lyn Murray
Lionel Newman
John Phillips
Otis Redding
Michael Sarne
Walter M. Scott
Jack Martin Smith
Dan Striepeke
Theadora Van Runkle
Film Details
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Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Clips from Stowaway (1936), featuring Shirley Temple singing "You Got To S-M-I-L-E" are shown over the beginning and end titles. Clips from other Twentieth Century-Fox films appear throughout the film. One source credits Gore Vidal with screenplay collaboration and Mae West with additional material.
