Scarecrow In A Garden Of Cucumbers

A campy spoof of Hollywood, the story focuses on a young girl, Woodlawn, who goes by the name Eve Harrington (the name of the ambitious young actress from ALL ABOUT EVE). On her way to New York to make it big as a Broadway actress, she runs into eccentric people with names of characters from novels and famous movies. These include Mary Poppins, a very hefty blues singer; Blanche Dubois, sister to a midget wrestler; and Rhett Butler, an independent film producer. Though this name game and the interesting personalities depicted are of some amusement, the absence of plot makes the film tiresome after a while. Transvestite Woodlawn's appearance marked her first in a no...