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Myron arrives in hollywood as myra while in the rest of the film myron pops up from time to time as. Myra breckenridge was voted one of the fifty worst films of all time by the medved brothers in their 1978 book. Myra breckinridge 1970 michael sarne releases allmovie. Myra breckinridge le film complet en francais 1970. In that light, myra speaks to our present condition with a rare nerviness, humor and brio.
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John huston, mae west, raquel welch, farrah fawcett. There, myra meets aspiring actor rusty and his girlfriend, mary ann. Rusty just wants to be a hollywood star like everyone else at buck loners academy, but now that bucks niece, myra breckinridge, has arrived, the curriculum is taking a wildly strange turn. This uneven film is taken from the novel by gore vidal. Insisting that she is myrons widow, myra enrolls in an acting school run by her uncle, buck loner john huston, where she meets manhungry talent. This book is an amusing story about sexual transformation, but despite an allstar cast, the film is a dismal failure.