The Dashers' Bed Frame - Female Trouble (1974)

The Dashers' bed frame, a screen-matched piece of set decoration from John Waters' Female Trouble (1974) starring Divine.

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When Dawn Davenport (Divine) asks the audience at her nightclub performance in Female Trouble "Who wants to die for art?" Vincent Peranio jumps up and shouts, "I do!" Peranio also worked behind the scenes, credited for the film's sets. He and his brother Ed owned an ironworks shop at the time and made the Dashers' (Mary Vivian Pearce and David Lochary) blue-and-pink bed frame.

The Dashers own the Lipstick Beauty Salon, where Dawn first learns to equate crime with beauty. They invite her to their bedroom, where Donna Dasher entices Dawn to consume makeup appliances, such as mascara brushes, and Donald Dasher stokes her vanity by repeatedly photographing her. This metal bed frame is painted blue and pink to symbolize the duo, deliberately playing with the concept of traditional binary gender aesthetics.

Distinctive welds and shaping from metal work on this bed frame screen-match to shots throughout the film. The headboard was conserved by the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and was previously exhibited in the "John Waters: Pope of Trash" exhibition. The headboard and footboard exhibit signs of age, including some wear throughout the finish.

MATERIALS: Cast iron, paint, soldering material

DIMENSIONS: Headboard: 55″ w x 75.5″ h to pointed post, 90″ h to top of first swirl; 95″ to top of middle swirl. Footboard: 55″ w x 56.25″ h