''The Diane Linkletter Story'' is a 1970

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by American filmmaker John Waters starring

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, and David Lochary.

Overview

This improvised film is based on the 1969 suicide of TV personality

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's daughter, Diane. In the film, Mr. and Mrs. Linkletter fret about their daughter's recent behavior, which includes taking drugs and dating a lowlife named Jim. Eventually, the parents confront Diane, which results in her

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under the influence of LSD. Waters claims that the film is "accidental" – he and his friends improvised a story while testing a new synch-sound camera (later used on '' Multiple Maniacs''). The film had a very limited release in the early 1970s, mainly in art houses as short feature before Pink Flamingos, and gained a wider audience when it showed up on a 1990 videotape entitled '' A Divine Double Feature''.

Cast

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as Diane Linkletter * David Lochary as Art Linkletter *

as Lois Foerster Linkletter

Background

John Waters stated in a 2015 interview with the British Film Institute that the short is the worst of his works, but that the Diane Linkletter Story was ad libbed and was really just a test of the camera the day it was filmed.

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