Milstead developed a massive coterie of good friends, between them David Lochary, who grew to become an actor and costar in many of Divine's later movies. Many of his pals, a group which came to be identified as "the Dreamlanders" (and who provided Divine, Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce and Mink Stole), appeared in some of his minimal-spending plan productions, filmed on Sunday afternoons.