In Some Like It Hot (1959), two struggling musicians have to dress as women to escape the ire of gangsters. JSTOR ( April 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "Cross-dressing in film and television" – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification. Cross-gender acting, on the other hand, refers to actors or actresses portraying a character of the opposite gender. One early exception was Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Murder!, where the murderer is a transvestite who wears particularly frilly dresses and petticoats. Only in recent decades have there been dramatic films which included cross-dressing, possibly because of strict censorship of American films until the mid-1960s. The tradition has continued for many years, usually played for laughs. The Three Stooges, especially Curly ( Jerry Howard), sometimes appeared in drag in their short films.
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Even the beefy American actor Wallace Beery appeared in a series of silent films as a Swedish woman. Both Chaplin and Laurel occasionally dressed as women in their films. Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel brought the tradition from the English music halls when they came to America with Fred Karno's comedy troupe in 1910. Drag in film has followed a long history of female impersonation on English stage, and made its appearance in the early days of the silent films.
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