Other Media About Edith Massey
- Director Robert Maier made a documentary short about her in 1975 entitled Love Letter to Edie. There is also a director's authorized version re-mastered from his original 16mm color film footage.
- Edith also appeared in John Cougar Mellencamp's music video "This Time", as his true love after a string of beautiful floozies. She was also on the album cover of his 1980 album Nothin' Matters and What If It Did.
- A sample of Edith Massey's voice as "Aunt Ida" from the film Female Trouble appears in the track "The Days of Swine and Roses", on the album Confessions of a Knife by the band, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult.
- Dialogue from the film Female Trouble between Edith Massey's "Aunt Ida" character and Micheal Potter's "Gator", in which Aunt Ida tries to convince Gator to become a homosexual, was used as the intro to the 1989 song "I Don't Wanna Be a Homosexual" by the band Sloppy Seconds.
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