Teenage delinquent Dawn Davenport, incensed after her parents do not give her the cha-cha heels she wanted for Christmas, runs away from home. After an illegitimate child and hairstylist husband bring her more misery, she's enticed into a life of crime when the owners of her husband's salon promise her fame and fortune.

Divine
as Dawn Davenport / Earl Peterson

David Lochary
as Donald Dasher

Mary Vivian Pearce
as Donna Dasher

Mink Stole
as Taffy Davenport

Edith Massey
as Aunt Ida

Cookie Mueller
as Concetta

Susan Walsh
as Chicklette

Michael Potter
as Gater

Ed Peranio
as Wink

Paul Swift
as Butterfly