Through occasional magazine articles, John Waters‘ writings and stories, a few paragraphs in movie databases and my short film, “Love Letter to Edie,” brief snippets of Edith Massey’s life ...

Edith Massey was the apotheosis of chaotic good: a winning and amiable character actor who’s remembered today for a screen persona that was at once kind, disruptive, and surreal. If the ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Edith Massey (May 28, 1918 – October 24, 1984) was an American actress and singer. Massey was best known for her appearances in a series of movies by ...

As Edith Massey once said, “the world of the heterosexual is a sick and boring life,” and I found renewed sympathy for the straights this Thanksgiving after gorging myself on some weird old ...

Waters managed to get a really good cotillion of characters around him like Edith Massey, Divine and Mink Stole. Divine is especially sensational in all of his/her roles. Cineastes will forever ...

At one point, someone asked him a question about Edith Massey, who played Edie in Pink Flamingos. John Waters said that when you rode in the car with Massey, she would provide a manic, ...

(Photo abovet, Edith Massey as Edie the Egg Lady, Divine’s mother in “Pink Flamingos.”) In a recent phone call to Edith’s brother, Morris Grodsky, I learned more about Edith’s young life ...