The film was largely self-financed and was produced through Nguyen's Moviehead Pictures company for a budget of less than $10,000.
Wood himself was a cross-dresser, and the film is a plea for tolerance.
Produced by entrepreneur Howard Hughes, the film was principally shot near St. George, Utah.
It also starred John Huston as Buck Loner, Mae West as Leticia Van Allen, Farrah Fawcett, Rex Reed, Roger Herren, and Roger C. Carmel.
Other actors in the cast included Timothy Dalton, Dom DeLuise, Tony Curtis, Ringo Starr, Keith Moon, George Hamilton, Alice Cooper and Walter Pidgeon.
It stars Kirk Cameron as a fictional version of himself.
It features 18 songs with music and lyrics by Cole Porter.
It is the only feature film produced by the men's magazine Penthouse.
The story was adapted for the screen by Robert Getchell, Tracy Hotchner, Frank Perry, and Frank Yablans, based on the 1978 autobiography of the same name by Christina Crawford.
Although several TV adaptations of Marvel characters had aired during the preceding 21 years, this was the first theatrical released film after the serial Captain America.
The film centers on a 'street-smart' drifter who ventures to Las Vegas and climbs the seedy hierarchy from stripper to showgirl.
[Film] earned a Razzie Award nomination for Thomas as Worst New Star.
The film was directed by Joel Schumacher and written by Akiva Goldsman.
Patrick Macnee, who played John Steed on the original series, makes a vocal cameo as the voice of Invisible Jones.
Travolta, a long-time Scientologist, had sought for many years to make a film of the novel by Hubbard, the founder of Scientology.
The film's plot resembles Green's struggles as a young man trying to get his TV series picked up, which would later become the popular MTV show The Tom Green Show.
Set in 1982, Carey plays Billie Frank, who wants to be a famous singer, and along with her friends Louise and Roxanne (Tia Texada) is a club dancer.
The film stars Noah Ringer as Aang, with Dev Patel as Prince Zuko, Nicola Peltz as Katara, and Jackson Rathbone as Sokka.
This city appears in Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a poem that is quoted in the film.
The film garnered notoriety prior to its release after protracted legal battles with Madonna and Kim Basinger, both of whom backed out of the leading role of Helena.
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