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The dog feces in the infamous final scene are real. According to director John Waters, the dog was fed steak for three days beforehand. Divine's reaction to eating it was real.

During filming, Divine was arrested for stealing, and in her defense said that she was a method actor playing a criminal.

According to production designer Vincent Peranio, the art department's budget was about $200. Half went to purchasing the trailer, half to decorating it. "And then after that (running out of money), we would just steal things."

A chicken actually died while filming the sex scene in the shed between Crackers and Cookie. One of the deleted scenes that was restored in 1997 actually involved cooking the dead chicken for dinner.

Elizabeth Coffey (Chick with a Dick) was a pre-op male-to-female transexual who had already undergone hormone therapy to develop breasts and female features at the time of filming. She had surgery to remove her penis a week to the day her scene was filmed, and appears as a completely female character in Waters' next film, Female Trouble (1974).

In the film MIDNIGHT MOVIES, John Waters says in part "I was high when I wrote this film. I was NOT high when I made it."

The film has one of the longest front credits sequence of all time. Every actor and every single extra featured in the movie appears listed in it.

After eating the dog feces, Divine called a hospital emergency hot line the night after filming the scene pretending to be a mother asking that her child ate dog feces, they told her the worst thing that could happen was the boy might get white worms.

At his request, the Singing Asshole is not credited, and John Waters maintains that he "certainly will remain nameless. It's his choice." This individual does, however, apparently still disclose his involvement in the film to friends.

In some theatres, patrons were given a "Pink Phlegm-ingo Barf Bag."

Divine and the party guests are actually inhaling amyl nitrate during the party scene. At the time of filming, it was still legal to buy such "poppers" at the drug store. If you watch Divine's face during the scene, she suddenly starts laughing uproariously. John Waters says that's where "it kicked in".

John Waters has stated that the only scene in the film he regrets is the unsimulated fellatio sequence between Divine and Danny Mills; he claims it was awkward to film because the two actors were friends. He also feels it is the most 'dated' part of the film; Deep Throat (1972) had just been released and this scene was Waters satirizing the rise of 'porno chic'.

Years later, John Waters was asked by a reporter why Divine consumed dog feces for the movie. Waters replied, "It was just a little piece of dogshit, and it made her a star."

Filming only took place on weekends; John Waters raised money during the week.

When Connie and Raymond call the police to break up Divine's birthday party, Raymond gives the police real directions, which would have easily guided real police (or anyone else, for that matter) to the site of the trailer.

In the original script there was to be a scene in which Connie Marble's hair catches fire. Mink Stole initially agreed to do the stunt (the movie's shoestring budget meant they couldn't afford a professional stuntwoman) before eventually changing her mind. John Waters said on the audio commentary track that he was happy that Stole changed her mind in retrospect because she would have ended up with third degree burns on her head and he would have ended up in jail.

Director John Waters wrote a sequel to this film, entitled "Flamingos Forever". It takes place 15 years after the action of the original film, showing Babs' return to Baltimore with Cotton, Crackers, Miss Edie, and her new grandson Dwayne, an 8-year-old transvestite. Their foe in this film is Vera Venninger, Connie Marble's 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, and later that of Divine, whose roles were integral to the plot. Waters was also VERY uncomfortable with TROMA's 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) in a collection entitled "Trash Trio".

Connie and Raymond's car belonged to a jive-talking black man that John Waters met during pre-production in Baltimore. In exchange for using the car, Waters attempted to work the man into some scenes he made up on set, where Connie would talk to a magic mirror and say, "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the filthiest of them all?" A black pimp in a zoot suit and fedora would then appear in a cloud of smoke and say, "Divine is." Waters couldn't get the special effects for the scene to work correctly, though, so it was cut from the final product.

After filming the notorious scene in which he ate dog excrement, Divine immediately washed his teeth using the toothbrush of someone he didn't like.

Some of the music was changed for the 1997 re-release, most notably at the beginning of the party scene, where "Sixteen Candles" was replaced with "Happy, Happy Birthday, Baby".

Cookie mentions a tabloid story about Harris Glenn Milstead being released from jail and Divine says that she hadn't heard that name in years. Harris Glenn Milstead was Divine's own real name.

According to director John Waters, the film's budget was so tight, that he could not afford "A" and "B" reels. The work print was in effect the master copy.

Ranked #5 in Entertainment Weekly's "Top 50 Cult Films of All-Time."

Marilyn Manson sampled Mink Stole shouting "Burn you fucker!" for his song "Dogma."

David Lochary and Mink Stole designed and colored their own hair for the film. Lochary reportedly colored his with a blue Magic Marker.

John Waters originally wanted a man named "Mr. Ray" to be the narrator of Pink Flamingos. Mr. Ray was famous for his hair-weave radio ads and for his Baltimore accent. Mr. Ray refused, so Waters recorded the voice-over himself, imitating Mr. Ray's voice as "Mr. J."

The house that Connie and Raymond Marble live in together was rented by John Waters and Mink Stole. Interiors were filmed in Stole's part of the house with minimal redressing.

At the "trial" scene at the end of the movie, one of the reporters is filming it. This was actually Steve Yeager and his cameraman, who were shooting material that ended up in 'Divine Trash (1998).

Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.

In the deleted scenes, Director John Waters tells of a character named Patty Hitler whose scenes were cut from the film, Patty is a friend of Divine and tells her where Connie and Raymond live, she is also adorned in swastikas and other Nazi attire. Although her scenes are cut from the film, you can still see her in the crowds of the birthday party scene.

There was a "Revenge On Cookie" subplot, cut from the final film.

Danny Mills (Crackers) and Linda Olgeirson (Linda) never acted again, only appearing in documentaries. For many of the Party Guests and Extras, this was their only ever appearance on film.

John Waters: [manson] In one of the scenes of Divine sashaying through Baltimore, she walks past graffiti that says "Free Tex Watson". There is also a framed picture of Susan Atkins in Connie and Raymond's apartment.