Dorothy Karen "Cookie" Mueller was an American actress, writer, and Dreamlander who starred in many of filmmaker John Waters' early films, including Multiple Maniacs, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, and Desperate Living.
14 Facts About Cookie Mueller
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Cookie Mueller had many pets as a child, including many turtles, a dog named Jip, snakes, and tadpoles.
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Cookie Mueller began to write at age 11, when she wrote a 321-page book about the Johnstown flood of 1889.
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Cookie Mueller stapled it together, wrapped it in butcher paper and Saran wrap, and placed it on the shelves of a local library in what would have been its proper place.
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Cookie Mueller took a small job at a Baltimore men's department store and saved enough funds to head to Haight-Ashbury, where she continued the hippie lifestyle.
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Cookie Mueller traveled across the country, living with groups of vagrants, and settled in places such as Provincetown, Massachusetts; British Columbia; San Francisco; Pennsylvania; Jamaica; and Sicily.
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In 1969, Cookie Mueller first met film director John Waters at the Baltimore premiere of his film Mondo Trasho.
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Cookie Mueller wrote the health column "Ask Dr Cookie Mueller" for the East Village Eye and later served as art critic for Details.
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Cookie Mueller was in a relationship with Sharon Niesp, an actress, singer and Provincetown fixture.
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Cookie Mueller later married the Italian artist Vittorio Scarpati, who died of AIDS in September 1989.
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Cookie Mueller died from AIDS-related pneumonia on November 10,1989, at Cabrini Medical Center in New York City, aged 40.
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Cookie Mueller's ashes are interred in multiple locations: on the beach near Provincetown; in the flowerbed of the Church of St Luke in the Fields in Greenwich Village; alongside those of Vittorio and her dog Beauty in the Scarpati family crypt in Sorrento, Italy; under the statue of Christ the Redeemer atop Corcovado in Rio de Janeiro; in the South Bronx; and in the holy waters of the Ganges River.
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Cookie Mueller was survived by her son, Max Wolfe Mueller, who appeared in Pink Flamingos.
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Cookie Mueller is one of many commemorated in the AIDS Quilt.