gun and shoots Bo-Bo dead. After Lu-Lu flees the unwed mothers' home, she returns home to find Bo-Bo's dead body and is so distraught that she attempts suicide. Francine comes home and faints after witnessing her daughter's suicide attempt—and the apparent suicide by hanging of the family dog, Bonkers, based on a suicide note left near the dog's dangling body. Some time later, Francine's life begins to look up. Dexter is released from jail, having been rehabilitated. Lu-Lu suffers a miscarriage from her suicide attempt and is contrite about her past, becoming an artistic flower child who embraces macramé. Francine quits drinking, confronts and rebukes her mother, and finds new romance with Todd Tomorrow. Todd proposes marriage to an elated Francine, but she soon discovers that Todd and La Rue are romantically involved and conspiring to embezzle her divorce settlement, drive her insane and sell her children into prostitution. Elmer and Sandra break into the house to murder Francine, but Dexter and Lu-Lu kill them: Dexter steps on Sandra's foot, causing her to accidentally shoot Elmer, and Lu-Lu uses her macramé to strangle Sandra. When Cuddles and her German chauffeur and fiancé Heintz arrive, their car runs over La Rue and Todd, killing them. The film concludes with a happy ending for Francine, her children, and newlyweds Cuddles and Heintz. Cast Divine as Francine Fishpaw Tab Hunter as Todd Tomorrow David Samson as Elmer Fishpaw Edith Massey as Cuddles Kovinsky Mink Stole as Sandra Sullivan Ken King as Dexter Fishpaw Mary Garlington as Lu-Lu Fishpaw Joni Ruth White as La Rue Stiv Bators as Bo-Bo Belsinger Hans Kramm as Heintz Rick Breitenfeld as Dr. Arnold Quackenshaw Susan Lowe as Shirley Evans, mall victim Cookie Mueller as Betty Lalinski George Hulse as Principal Kirk Michael Watson as Freddy Ashton Mary Vivian Pearce and Sharon Niesp as Nuns Jean Hill as Gospel bus hijacker Leo Braudy as Abortion picketer Dorothy Braudy as Abortion picketer George Figgs as Abortion picketer Marina Melin as Supermarket Victim Chuck Yeaton as Hospital Reporter Production Waters' usual acting troupe, the Dreamlanders, serve minor roles in Polyester, compared to Waters' previous films Desperate Living, Female Trouble and Pink Flamingos, which starred several Dreamlanders in major roles. Only two, Divine and Edith Massey, receive top billing. This was also Massey's final collaboration with Waters before her 1984 death. Dreamlander perennials Mink Stole, Mary Vivian Pearce, Cookie Mueller, Sharon Niesp,