The Topp Twins - Untouchable Girls
2009 Film
- Comedy
- Documentary
- Arts/Culture
- Music
- NZ History
- LGBTQI+
About
Part live performance, part biopic, and part historical record, Untouchable Girls celebrated the Topp Twins' 50th birthday. New Zealand's favourite comedic singing and yodeling lesbian twins tell their personal story: from coming out, to protest (see excerpt one), to Jools' brush with breast cancer. Director Leanne Pooley (Shackleton's Captain) melds archive material, home movies and interviews with the Topps' many alter egos. The result became the biggest Kiwi documentary of its era. Among roughly 20 international awards, it was voted Favourite Documentary at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Lynda Topp (left) and Jools Topp (right) receive their Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit awards.
Taken by: Craig Simcox. Copyright: Dominion Post
Durham Street, Auckland, 1982: the Topp Twins on the way to an interview at radio station 1ZB. Photo by Bruce Connew.
Photo by Bruce Connew
Camp Mother and Camp Leader at the Horowhenua A&P Show.
The Topp Twins and comic duo Slick Stage, after a rehearsal for a university tour in January 1981. From left: Peter Rowell, Peta Rutter, Lynda Topp and Jools Topp.
Supplied by Brian Sweeney
The Topp Twins.
The Topp Twins in the Pasifika episode of Do Not Adjust Your Twin-Set.
From left to right: The Topp Twins - Untouchable Girls director Leanne Pooley, producer Arani Cuthbert, Lynda Topp and Jools Topp with their 2009 Qantas Film and Television Award for Best Feature Film costing under $1 Million.
Photo supplied by Throng.
The Gingham Sisters, two of the Topp Twins' earliest characters. Photo by Sally Tagg.
Ken & Ken share their thoughts on the 1996 general election.
