Actor Roger Herren

"Myra Breckinridge" pretty much killed his career before it could even take off.

Overall, he had a pretty sad life, battling alcoholism at one point and having a series of unsuccessful relationships. Apparently, he refused to talk about his role in "Myra Breckinridge," feeling embarrassed about his appearance in the movie.

Why is Myra Breckinridge never shown? It like one of those mythical movies that I’ve heard about forever but have never seen anywhere on any channel.

R2 It shows ups every once in a while on TCM, but very rarely. It really is awful. And not even awful in a "Showgirls" awful, but fun way. Just horrific, disjointed, nonsensical.

The best performance in the entire movie is given by Roger Herren's butt, so that should tell you all you need to know.

Some movies--MB is one--are degrading to watch. I don't blame him for refusing to talk about it.

MB was rated X. If it's on TV it would be heavily edited.

R5 Rated "X" in 1970 was not the same. Today, "X" means porn. But back then, it just meant very adult content. "Midnight Cowboy" was rated X, but I think anyone who's seen it would agree there's nothing about it that's pornographic. Same with "Myra Breckinridge."

TCM airs its movies unedited, and I saw it unedited. It was considered scandalous at the time, since Myra was a transgender person, and the scene with Roger Herren was considered shocking since it depicted Raquel raping him with a strap-on, but beyond that, there wasn't anything particularly "adults only" about it.

He had a hot ass but...well, you know the rest.

Mae West had some funny quips in it, but John Huston is pretty embarrassing in it, it didn't help Raquel Welch's career, and yes, it's a disjointed mess. Plus Rex Reed is shown masturbating, though I forget if he was shown nude -- pretty boy, with an annoying voice. Roger Herren was very cute, but pics of his nude scene showed up in Playboy, so being rogered (sorry) by Raquel's dildo was not the best way to forge a career as a hunky leading man in Hollywood back then (or even now).

I was pissed that after getting through the whole mess it turned out It was all just a dream!

Don't forget Mae West as a sex-crazed cougar!

R10 It was such an embarrassing performance for her. And she's only in the first half of the movie. Then she just disappears and is never seen again. Her character made no sense at all in the movie.

A young Farrah Fawcett played Roger's girlfriend or wife in this. She also had a lesbian sex scene if I recall.

Seriously, i felt like I was on some hallucinogen watching this.

Farrah was absolutely gorgeous in this movie. Truly stunning.

She had a lesbian tryst with Raquel in the movie, but it was nothing more than some rolling around in a bed and a couple of butt shots. Nothing you wouldn't see today in a PG-rated movie.

Farrah said that Raquel was rather mean to her off-screen.

Tom Selleck as one of the studs auditioning for Mae West.

I saw MB in a theater when it first came out. It was just a big mess, and didn’t make much sense. I’d never read the Gore Vidal novel it was based on. It was Rex Reed’s awful debut as an actor, and he was just bad. The lead character keeps fantasizing about classic movies, but since the film was a 20th Century Fox production, all the film references used as clips in it had to be from Fox films. Which only made it more confusing.

And this guy Roger Herren Is presented as little more than a dimwitted himbo, whose later stage experience consisted of playing “Cowboy” in various southwest productions of “Boys in the Band.” No surprise there.

Years ago, I saw an interview with Rex Reed where he was saying how people would write him nasty letters whenever he wrote a bad review of a movie they liked and complain that he didn't know anything.

He said, I always tell them, "Hey, I was in the worst movie ever made! I think I know what I'm talking about when it comes to bad movies."

Roger Herren's fine white ass.

He was probably very natural onscreen because he didn’t have any dramatic training. That ability only goes so far and then it’s hard to replicate without training.

Ick, that's a flat ass

Mae's scenes were a movie within a movie. She wrote her own dialog and insisted on a music sequence (for a talent agent?). The director added her because he didn't think Raquel had the gravitas to carry a movie (or the acting chops to play Myron also, thus the loopy addition of film critic Rex Reed).

Raquel hated her and Mae was really hurt. She even had Raquel over to her home for a chat, but RW kept trashing her behind her back, saying she was a man in drag, etc.

Mae had the last laugh; she's the only thing memorable in the film and looks gorgeous for almost 80.

Mae was awful in this movie. It was an embarrassing way to begin the end of her film career. She does two musical numbers in the movie, and in one of them, I remember her clacking her teeth together throughout the whole thing. I couldn't figure out if she was chewing gum or trying to slip her dentures back in place.

And of course, Raquel has a very different recollection of her relationship with Mae. She says Mae was very mean to her and made Raquel change her wardrobe in one scene, because it was the same color as Mae's. She said she felt like Mae was jealous of her because she was younger and prettier.

"Former child star and then-current US ambassador Shirley Temple Black, got her white house buddy Tricky Dick to demand the archival footage of her being squirted in the face while milking a cow (from a scene from Heidi) which was interspersed with a rape scene, be taken out of all prints immediately (which it was, though we do see and hear Ms. Temple in another, non-rape, section).  Loretta Young then, without the help of President Nixon, successfully sued 20th Century Fox for using images of her in that same infamous scene."

He never recovered from the surprise anal.

"It was an embarrassing way to begin the end of her film career."

Honey, Mae ain't doing "Stone Pillow" or "Whales of August".

R25, Or "Trog".

Mae ain't done nothin' since 1977,

Are Roger's eyes close2gether?

I think Myra is fun to watch BECAUSE it's so disjointed and surreal. And Mae's song is something to behold. I had no idea that Black Crowes song wasn't orginal, so first time I saw Mae do it, I got chills like in some time traveler movie.

I think Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is the one that is almost unwatchable and boring (except that short scene with John Hurt - the way he says 'Sissy')

Thank God Dunaway and Tomlin both dropped out of Cowgirls. At first I was devastated because I LOVE Faye and Lily and the thought of them together in a movie filled me with such excitement.

Then I saw Cowgirls and it was a big WHEW!

That look on Roger Herren's face with Raquel Welch behind him says it all.

Had no idea both Candy Darling and Rachel Harlow were considered for Myra Breckenridge.

Pretty much everyone except a slim few tried to distance themselves from Myra Breckinridge, so we can't hold that against Roger Herren. Farrah Fawcett left it out of her C.V IIRC.

Roger Herren was in "Boys In The Band" and overall got good marks for his performance, Farrah Fawcett, Raquel Welch and others managed after a while to move on, so it wasn't impossible. But then again maybe the suits simply felt image of Roger Herren bent over that table with RW behind him just was not something audiences would forget easily.

Then again maybe there were other things going on; plenty of guys came back from Vietnam with all sorts of problems. Yes, Roger Herren was a GD fine looking young man, but sometimes demons just can't be over come easily.