Pillow Talk

A touch of camp: The charm of being over-the-top

Mommie Dearest

Few people in movie history have reached the camp heights of Joan Crawford, except maybe Faye Dunaway on the year she was asked to portray Crawford on the big screen. In an unprecedented crescendo of acting hysteria, out-of-control facial expressions and all-around neurosis more suited to horror films that drama, Dunaway interprets the fallen Hollywood star like a female boogeyman on killer heels instead of the subject of an official biography.

Myra Breckinridge

This is the outrageous story of Myra Breckinridge, a gorgeous transsexual who gets a sex change operation and heads out to Hollywood to teach a few of its most arrogant inhabitants a thing or two about acting.

The Shanghai Gesture

Thick clouds of opium waft over a tempestuous story of decadence, seduction and debauchery, camouflaged as a sexually charged, highly operatic melodrama. Based on a script that suffered countless rewrites in an attempt to tone down the explicit nature of the material, the film sees the mysterious female owner of a bustling Shanghai casino (the unforgettably vamp-like Ona Munson) hatch a devious revenge scheme, involving a British soldier, his drug-prone daughter and the Machavelian young doctor who's trying to corrupt her.

Valley of the Dolls

They're young, beautiful and full of dreams. Soon, they will see their expectations fall short, become victims of substance abuse and live on the dark side of fame. Elbow-deep into the gritty reality of show business, they will fight until the very end to maintain their innocence...