Karen Carpenter: Starving for Perfection

Feb 10, 2023

1h 39m

★ 0.0

She'd only just begun.

Overview

Following Karen Carpenter's meteoric climb to stardom in the 1970s and the little-known anorexia nervosa diagnosis that resulted in her untimely death.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

AMS Pictures

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Cast

Self (archive footage)

Karen Carpenter

Self (archive footage)

Richard Carpenter

Self (archive footage)

Olivia Newton-John

Self

Cynthia Gibb

Self

Suzanne Somers

Self

Kristin Chenoweth

Self

Belinda Carlisle

Self

Carol Burnett

Self

Cubby O'Brien

Self

Carnie Wilson

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