Gender reversal in genre films
Just saw two different movies in which men passed of as women (Head) and viceversa (Theater of Blood.) The gender reversal issue may or may not be genre related. If you catch it, then you know you are...
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Wasn't the creature in Frankenstein's Daughter played by a man? Likely The She Creature was as well.
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Monty Python has a tone of that stuff. Some of the muppeteers like Frank Oz and Jerry Nelson voice women characters. QUEEN KONG is like KING KONG with the gender tables being switched around.
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One of my pet peeves is suspense comedies where a man with a beard or mustache has to disguise himself as a woman, and has minutes or hours of NOTICE before doing it, and of course he still has the...
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In both version of THE UNHOLY THREE Chaney disguised himself as an old woman.
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In Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs, Franco and Ciccio decide that one of them has to slip into Dr. Goldfoot's lair disguised as one of the robot girls. Surprisingly enough, it's the one WITHOUT a...
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How about DEEP RED? _____'s cross-dressing boyfriend is apparently acted by a woman, though the English voice dubbing is for sure a man. Since it doesn't have anything really to do with the plot, I am...
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There's Anna Nichole Smith's character in the third NAKED GUN movie. Maybe I'm the only one, but to me that joke was pretty heavy-handed. (Yes, it's possible to like "ZAZ" movies and still find SOME...
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If you want to see one that's very funny but in almost a "disturbing" way, there's Paul Lynde in THE GLASS-BOTTOM BOAT. (It also leads to a pretty funny cameo by someone else.)
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Homicidal always got me, that Warren/Emily thing was really weird....
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Yeah, I read somewhere that Jean Arless was a woman, and that she never made another flick after HOMICIDAL.
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gene phillips wrote:Yeah, I read somewhere that Jean Arless was a woman, and that she never made another flick after HOMICIDAL.yes, I think I recall that too Gene, 'she' didn't look too good as...
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I've mentioned it elsewhere, but there's either Franco or Ciccio (I get them confused) in DR. GOLDFOOT AND THE GIRL BOMBS. Could this be the only time a man impersonated a ROBOT woman? There are...
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Grant wrote:I've mentioned it elsewhere, but there's either Franco or Ciccio (I get them confused) in DR. GOLDFOOT AND THE GIRL BOMBS. Could this be the only time a man impersonated a ROBOT woman?...
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Yes, as is VOODOO WOMAN. Both are Paul Blaisdell. And FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER (or whoever that was supposed to be) was played by Harry Wilson. And, of course, the Astounding She Monster was played...
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Yes, but in this case I meant a male character doing an impersonation.
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I am under the impression that one of the Python films features an old guy in nun drag who gets busted in a throwaway scene - possibly Jabberwocky. But maybe I am just confused.
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The entirely what the ? girl's gym coach in Wayan's SCARY MOVIE. She is a she, but questions of her gender still linger. [ I am referring to the actress. ]
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It isn't a genre movie but it feels like one due to its big MST3K connection (it even became one of their better running jokes) - an actress named Betty Luster as "Mr. B Natural."
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