Busby Berkeley musicals:
The Lady with the Tutti Frutti Hat, a number from the film The Gang's All Here (1943), starring Carmen Miranda. Legendary camp!
Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald:
Sweetheart, a number from the film Maytime (1937)
Marlene Dietrich:
Hot Voodoo, a number from the film Blonde Venus (1932)
Scenes from The Devil is a Woman (1935)
Little Richard:
Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On performed on the TV show Shindig! (1964)
Good Golly Miss Molly music video
Sylvester:
Music video for You Make Me Feel Mighty Real (late 1970s)
John Wayne:
A campy appropriation of John Wayne from an installation exhibit
Some more examples of things that have been described as "camp":
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) trailer
Valley of the Dolls (1967) trailer: An outrageously campy trailer for an outrageously campy movie.
The protagonists in the 1970 film The Boys in the Band "camp about".
Mommie Dearest (1981) trailer
Divine sings You Think You're A Man in the late 1970s/early 1980s
The Village People sing Milkshake in their crazily campy film Can't Stop the Music (1980)
Trailer for Showgirls (1995), Paul Verhoeven's notoriously unsuccessful adaptation of All About Eve was re-claimed as a camp classic by some
Feel free to add your own favorite examples of "camp" in the comments section!
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