Fifty years ago today (26 August 1974) fabulous ray-of-sunshine Dolly Parton rocked the freakin’ house performing at WBAP's Country Gold 4th anniversary event Arlington Stadium in Arlington, Texas. #DollyParton #countrydiva #countrymusic #lobotomyroom #bouffantwig #kween #gayicon

“This is the story of a great star and a fan who went too far …” See Golden Age Hollywood’s #LaurenBacall starring as a Broadway diva terrorized by an obsessive fan in 1981 shocker The Fan! #LobotomyRoom cinema club on 19 Sept in Dalston! Info: tinyurl.com/292me2y3 #badmovies

Pretty, pretty? Polaroid portraits of luscious young starlet Divine in a “red-hot camera session” with Andy Warhol (what a marriage made in heaven!), 1974. #Divine #AndyWarhol #polaroid #lobotomyroom #hogprincess #LGBTQIA #queer #punk #cultcinema #dragqueen #dragartist #kween

Sixty years ago this month in the golden age of sleazy men’s magazines: b-movie ultra-vixen Mamie Van Doren graced the front cover of the September issue of Topper. #vintagesmut #vintagesleaze #lobotomyroom #mamievandoren #kitsch #wiglet #sexploitation #badgirl #mensmagazines

Released forty-five years ago today (4 September 1979): Muse, the most neglected of the trilogy of Tom Moulton-produced disco albums recorded by incomparable panther-faced freak diva #GraceJones in the mid-seventies (it followed Portfolio (1977) and Fame (1978)). #disco #kween

BOTD in London: morbidly beautiful actress #GloriaHolden (5 Sept 1903 – 22 March 1991). Holden’s one big stab at stardom: lead role in Dracula’s Daughter (1936). Unfortunately it flopped and didn’t lead to other noteworthy opportunities (although she continued to act until 1958).

Venus in Furs: Maila Nurmi (aka horror movie hostess Vampira) photographed at the Seventh Primetime Emmy Awards on 7 March 1955 at the Moulin Rouge nightclub in Los Angeles. Wish this was in colour: Nurmi's dress was ice-blue - and she dyed her hair to match! #vampira #mailanurmi

Released thirty year ago today (6 September 1994): the ferocious album The Sporting Life, a collaboration between scary avant-garde diva Diamanda Galás and Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones, a true marriage made in heaven / hell. #diamandagalas #lobotomyroom #fierce #kween #artrock

Died on this day: golden age Hollywood’s tempestuous Queen of Technicolour Exotica, Caribbean Cyclone and leading lady of films like Arabian Nights (1942), White Savage (1943) and Cobra Woman (1944), #MariaMontez (née María África Gracia Vidal, 6 June 1912 – 7 September 1951).

Born on this date 100 years ago: wild, fiercely abrasive and utterly distinctive character actress of stage and screen, New York scene-maker and "one helluva gorgeous chick" - Sylvia Miles!(9 September 1924 – 12 June 2019), #sylviamiles #characteractress #midnightcowboy #fierce

Woke up to the news that esteemed actor #JamesEarlJones (17 January 1931 – 9 September 2024) has aged 93. It’s a good excuse to post these 1961 portraits of Jones as an impossibly handsome long-lashed young star on the ascent taken by the great Carl Van Vechten. #carlvanvechten

BOTD 71 years ago: fierce American photographer #NanGoldin (née Nancy Goldin, 12 September 1953). Think of her as the bruised, worldly-wise Marianne Faithfull of modern art (or as Variety puts it, “the postpunk Diane Arbus”). Pic: "Nan in the Bathroom With Roommate in Boston.”

A Joey to behold! Sex-kitten-gone-berserk, Playboy playmate, Vegas headliner, Serta mattress spokeswoman and kitsch icon Joey Heatherton (born 14 September 1944) turns 80 today. #joeyheatherton #sexkittengoneberserk #lobotomyroom #kitsch #starlet #johnwaters

Released on this day 90 years ago (15 September 1934): The Scarlet Empress, visionary director Josef von Sternberg’s wild, perverse and baroque biopic of Russia’s Czarina Catherine the Great starring his sensational leading lady of choice, #MarleneDietrich. #catherinethegreat

BOTD 60 years ago (16 September 1964): striking jolie-laide Spanish actress, former punk musician, fashion muse (she’s modeled for Jean-Paul Gaultier, Thierry Mugler and Alexander McQueen) and ultimate Madrileña – the glorious Rossy de Palma! #rossydepalma #pedroalmodovar

Born on this day 100 years ago: ineffably feline and insolent Siamese cat-in-human-form, smoky-eyed Golden Age Hollywood leading lady #LaurenBacall (née Betty Joan Perske, 16 September 1924 – 12 August 2014). Pictured: portrait of Bacall by Louise Dahl-Wolfe, 1957. #oldhollywood