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How Percy won the Beauty Contest (1909 movie)
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 2:54 pm
by Susan
(Garnered from Rose's Forum)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmS76Bsnpn8
Is this the first cross dressing movie?
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 10:28 pm
by Carolynn
Dunno about being the first crossdressing movie, but it could certainly be the first Benny Hill chase!
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 2:26 pm
by DonnaT
Men in women’s clothing were something of a staple of English music hall and translated very quickly onto film, where the possibilities for mayhem gave delighted audiences a comic frisson.
It may well have been one of the first, if not the first.