Happy Birthday to the sublime Mary Vivian Pearce (born 9 November 1947) - an essential feminine presence in classick John Waters films like Multiple Maniacs (1970), Pink Flamingos (1972), Female Trouble (1974) and Desperate Living (1977). Pictured: Pearce in one of her finest achievements, as chic villainess Donna Dasher in Female Trouble. Five decades later, cult movie aficionados still thrill to Pearce’s inimitable acidic delivery of lines like “I'm scared rats are gonna come out and bite my new nylons”, “I couldn't possibly eat spaghetti. Do I look Italian?”, “I'll have an extremely large glass of ice-water” and “You know how I detest organs. Beauty has absolutely nothing to do with that WORD, that THING you have hanging there like an obscene pickle. Spare me your anatomy!”
