Karen Carpenter: Starving for Perfection

"She'd only just begun."

2023

1h 39m

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Documentary

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.

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Cast & Crew

10 members

Acting

Karen Carpenter

Self (archive footage)

Acting

Richard Carpenter

Self (archive footage)

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Olivia Newton-John

Self (archive footage)

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Cynthia Gibb

Self

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Suzanne Somers

Self

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Kristin Chenoweth

Self

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Belinda Carlisle

Self

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Carol Burnett

Self

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Cubby O'Brien

Self

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Carnie Wilson

Self

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