Karen Carpenter: Starving for Perfection (2023)
She'd only just begun.
Genre : Documentary
Runtime : 1H 39M
Director : Randy Martin
Synopsis
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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