Raquel Welch gave her all in the title role as a transgender woman (with film critic Rex Reed as her birth-assigned incarnation) who hits Hollywood, where rascally cowboy-star uncle John Huston puts her to work teaching acting. With Farrah Fawcett, Tom Selleck, Kathleen Freeman, Calvin Lockhart, Jim Backus, and a top-billed Mae West (who sings). Author Gore Vidal vilified the gleefully vulgar screen version of his subversive pansexual novel, and audiences and critics followed suit.