Dawn Davenport

Dawn Davenport is a villain from the 1974 dark comedy movie Female Trouble directed by John Waters and is Playd by Divine. On Christmas Dawn fails to get the cha-cha heels she wants and gos into a violent rage pushing her mother into the Christmas tree, Dawn runs away from home and, while hitchhiking, gets picked up by Earl Peterson, (also Playd by Divine) Peterson drives Davenport to a dump, where they have sex When she later finds herself pregnant and demands money from him, he tells her off, Dawn gives birth to her daughter Taffy and works as a waitress, go-go dancer, hooker, and petty thief Taffy now eight years old and driving her mother to violence (beating her with a car antenna) so she keeps her chained up a lot of the time  one day at the Lipstick Beauty Salon, owned by Donald and Donna Dasher. Dawn marrys a man named Gator, but five years later, she is Fed up with Gator's infidelities so Dawn leaves Gator and She seeks solace at the Lipstick Beauty Salon, where the Dashers ask her to be a "glamorous guinea pig" for a "beauty experiment": They want to test a theory that "crime equals beauty". At their behest, Dawn performs several crimes including knocking her daughter unconscious with a chair during which Dawn poses for photographs. Gators aunt Ida then bursts into Dawn's house and disfigures her face with acid blameing Dawn for Gator leaveing Dawn is now hideously disfigured, the Dashers convince her she's pretty and a star and discourage her from having plastic surgery. next Dawn finds out the Dashers, have kidnapped and confined Ida to an oversize bird cage. After encouragement from the Dashers, Dawn cuts off Ida's hand. Dawn, now with grotesque hair, make-up, provided by the Dashers, starts a nightclub act. on opening night, Dawn strangles Taffy to death after discovering that she is now a Hare Krishna, while the Dashers cheer her on. Dawn performs her nightclub act, which includes jumping on a trampoline and wallowing in a playpen filled with dead fish She then yells out, "Who wants to be famous? Who wants to die for art?" and shoots into the crowd. killing Several people Dawn is soon arrested by the police. At Dawn's trial, the Dashers are granted immunity by in exchange for their testimony against her Ida testifies against Dawn for kidnapping her and cutting off her hand, when actually the Dashers kidnapped Ida and told Dawn to cut off her hand (even providing her with a axe). After Dawn is found guilty and sentenced to die in the electric chair, the Dashers are seen paying Ida off In jail awaiting execution, Dawn has an affair with another prisoner Dawn tells her lover being executed will make her famous, "like winning an Academy Award". as Dawn is strapped to the electric chair, she gives a speech as if she were winning an Oscar

“ I'd like to thank all the wonderful people that made this great moment in my life come true. My daughter Taffy, who died in order to further my career. My friends Chicklet and Concetta who should be here with me today. All the fans who died so fashionably and gallantly at my nightclub act. And especially all those wonderful people who were kind enough to read about me in the newspapers and watch me on the television news shows. Without all of you, my career could never have gotten this far. It was you that I burn for and it is you that I will die for! Please remember, I love every fucking one of you! ”

After the fatal electric shock, her distorted face is shown in with the end credits rolling over it.