Mary Vivian Pearce
Nude

Lifelong friendships are seldom thicker and yield freakier fruit than the bond that binds cotton-candy blonde Mary Vivian Pearce and her childhood buddy from Baltimore, deviant director John Waters. Starting with her role as a wacked-out hoochie dancer in Hag in Black Leather Jacket (1964), Mary Vivian and her Jean Harlowesque visage have played some part in every Waters film of note, up to and including A Dirty Shame (2004). Mary Vivian’s evil, victimized, traumatized, vengeful, and winning Waters characters have exuded a thrift-store glamour that has been often copied but never duplicated by generations of arty bohemian chicks who have followed in the Pearce footsteps, often going so far as to doff their tops and flash their impressionable young breasts for a pervy pal with a camera, as Mary Vivian did in the Waters cult midnight classic Pink Flamingos (1972).