Teenage delinquent Dawn Davenport, incensed after her parents do not give her the cha-cha heels she wanted for Christmas, runs away from home. After an illegitimate child and hairstylist husband bring her more misery, she's enticed into a life of crime when the owners of her husband's salon promise her fame and fortune.
Media
Trailer
John Waters Q&A | 'Female Trouble'
Cast
Divine
Dawn Davenport / Earl Peterson
David Lochary
Donald Dasher
Mary Vivian Pearce
Donna Dasher
Mink Stole
Taffy Davenport
Edith Massey
Aunt Ida
Cookie Mueller
Concetta
Susan Walsh
Chicklette
Michael Potter
Gater
Ed Peranio
Wink
Paul Swift
Butterfly
George Figgs
Dribbles
Susan Lowe
Vikki
George Hulse
Teacher
Margie Skidmore
School Snitch
Berenica Cipcus
Mean Girl
Betty Woods
Dawn's Mother
Roland Hertz
Dawn's Father
Ramsey McClean
Baby
Henry Bederski
Drunk
Hilary Taylor
Taffy as a Child
Cindy Chosky
Stripper
Laurel Douglas
Telephone Company Girl
Mark Lazarus
Priest
Anne Figgs
Gater's Girlfriend
Sally Albaugh
Sally
Lynn Russo
Girl Who Won't Pay
Bob Willis
Doctor
Valerie Stafford
Nurse
Bob Adams
Ernie
Channing Wilroy
Prosecutor
Al Strapelli
Judge
Seymour Avigdor
Defense Lawyer
Christine Mason
Bailiff
Mumme
Bailiff
Pat Moran
Bitch Prisoner
Marina Melin
Cheryll
Elizabeth Coffey
Earnestine
George Stover
Chaplin
Cowboy Foulke
Spectator at Strip Club in Beginning (uncredited)
Mimi Lochary
Juror (uncredited)
Vincent Peranio
Guy Who Dies for Art (uncredited)
