Eat Your Makeup (Rarely Seen 1968 Film)

LostEat Your Makeup is a 1968 Short Movie the 3rd made by John Waters, it was his first film in 16mm Film. It stars Marina Melin, Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary, Howard Gruber, and Maelcum Soul.

The Plot is about a deranged Goveness who kidnaps models forcing them to eat makeup and makes them model themselves to death for her, her boyfriend and their friends. one of the Goveness's friends dreams that she is Jackie Kennedy and she relives the JFK Assassination.

The film's title was based on eatable lipstick that John Waters found in the stores, the recreation of the Kennedy Assassination with Divine playing Jackie was shot at Waters' family home, which had only happened 2 years before.

The film was screened in a Church, after disappearing it was later screened again as a part of John Waters' travelling photography show, John Waters: Change of Life. In September 2014, it was screened as part of the "50 Years of John Waters: How Much Can You Take?" film retrospective. It has never been released in any format aside from these three screenings. [3]

A clip of Divine's scenes from Eat Your Makeup is in the Documentary Film I Am Divine.