old transvestite. Their foe in this film is Vera Venninger,  Connie Marbles sister, and her husband, Wilbur, a necrophile who  runs a mortuary. Troma Films offered to finance the picture for  $600,000 but it was never made because of the death of  Edith Massey (qv), and later that of Divine (I) (qv), whose  roles were integral to the plot. Waters was also VERY uncomfortable  with TROMAs editing facilities, which at that time were Moviolas  from the very early days of film editing. The screenplay to this  work is available with those of Pink Flamingos (1972) and  _Desperate Living (1977)_ (qv) in a collection entitled "Trash  Trio".