Myron Breckinridge (gay film critic Rex Reed), a film critic obsessed with classic Hollywood, undergoes gender‑affirming surgery in Europe and returns to America as Myra (Raquel Welch). Myra arrives at the acting school run by her uncle Buck Loner (John Huston), claiming to be Myron’s widow and demanding half the inheritance. Buck doesn’t believe her, but Myra forces her way into the school as an instructor.
A disastrous, adaptation of Gore Vidal’s novel, directed – if that is the right word – by Michael Sarne and starring Raquel Welch, John Huston, and a pre‑fame Farrah Fawcett. The film takes Vidal’s gender‑bending satire of Hollywood and destroys it – not that the novel was any good to begin with. A few camp moments, here and there, keep it from an F rating and a spot on The Hated Fifteen.
With Mae West in a cameo as talent scout Leticia Van Allen.
