![]() ![]() These would include Cry-Baby, Serial Mom, and Pecker. ![]() Waters would continue to write and direct films that pleased the mainstream but also showcased his unique approach to filmmaking. ![]() Waters's commercial breakthrough, Hairspray (1988) told the story of Baltimore's televised sock-hop program, The Corny Collins Show, and how one brave girl (Ricki Lake) used her platform as a dancer to end segregation in her town. The film starred Divine as an unhappy housewife who romances a former teen idol played by Tab Hunter. Waters soon entered the mainstream with Polyester, the first movie filmed in a revolutionary new process: smell-o-vision. The films cemented Waters's status as a cult favorite and continue to play at college campuses and art house theaters to this day. These films showcased poor taste, obscene cinema, and transformative approaches to politics, gender, and art. Waters broke through to national acclaim with his "trash trio," Pink Flamingos (1972), Female Trouble (1974), and Desperate Living (1977). The Dreamlanders would include his diva and partner-in-film, Divine, who would go on to star in Waters's most familiar works. His cast of actors, the Dreamlanders, were featured in every subsequent film. His first shorts such as Hag in a Black Leather Jacket and Mondo Trasho demonstrated an innate talent at capturing the hideous and crude and elevating it to art. Waters began making films in his hometown of Baltimore in 1964. 1946) has worked at the forefront of American cinema for nearly forty years. ![]() As a film director, artist, and personality, John Waters (b. ![]()
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