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Myra Breckinridge

Item number (ISN):

222031

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1970

Item number (ISN):

222031

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORPORATION: CANADIAN FILM INSTITUTE

Accession:

1973-0226

Media:

Film

Original title:

Myra Breckinridge

Part:

4 of 4

Production date:

1970

Release date:

1970

Production company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Production credit:

director, Michael Sarne; producer, Robert Fryer; scenario, David Giler; Gore Vidal; photography, Richard Moore; sound, Don Bassman; Dave Dockendorf; editing, Danford B. Greene; music, Lionel Newman

Cast credit:

Mae West, John Huston, Raquel Welch, Rex Reed, Farrah Fawcett, John Carradine, Roger C. Carmel, Roger Herren, Calvin Lockhart, Jim Backus, Andy Devine, Grady Sutton, Robert Lieb, Skip Ward, B.S. Pully, Kathleen Freeman, Buck Kartalian, Monty Landis, Tom Sellede, Peter Ireland, Nelson Sardelle, Genevieve Waile, William Hopper, Charlene Jones

Country of production:

us

Distributor name:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Description:

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A sex change operation transforms young film critic Myron Breckenridge into Myra. Myra, posing as Myron's widow goes to Hollywood with two purposes in mind, to destroy the American male and to claim her share of an inherited estate currently being exploited by her uncle, Buck Loner. Buck is running a questionable academy purporting to groom people for stardom. In order to keep Myra quiet while his lawyers investigate her claim, he appoints her a teacher in his academy. Her knowledge of the cinema and her unorthodox approach make her a hit in her classes. Among her students are Rusty and Mary-Ann, his girlfriend. Myra is attracted to them both, on the pretext of giving Rusty medical examinations to assess his future in films she brutally seduces him, which destroys his relationship with his girlfriend. He becomes an embittered stud and is snapped up by Hollywood's leading talent scout, Leticia Van Allen. Leticia in gratitude becomes Myra's ally in getting her inheritance which Myra finally wins by showing the scars of her real identity. Meanwhile Mary-Ann seeks Myra's consultation for the departure of Rusty but proves an unresponsive bedmate for Myra, her taste ironically is for men. Myra finds herself hospitalized after an accident and finds herself irreversibly Myron again although irreparably deficient in some particulars, and in this new emasculated form cruises once more along Sunset Boulvard. <94mn>

Language:

English

Genre:

COMEDY

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

230727

Format:

FILM

Location number:

CFI-8103/I1
CFI-8103/I2
CFI-8103/I3
CFI-8103/I4
CFI-8103/I5
CFI-8103/I6

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

6

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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Open

Restrictions on consultation:

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