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"female impersonator" Definitions
  1. a male entertainer who plays the role of a woman (as in vaudeville)
"female impersonator" Synonyms
drag queen closet queen queen cross-dresser fruitcake transvestite tranny ladyboy TV trannie gender bender

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Would it be different from how a female impersonator sounds?
The female impersonator then slips between the two and mates with the actual female.
Chilli Pepper is a Chicago legend who professionally performed as a "female impersonator" for several decades.
Legendary female impersonator Julian Eltinge ran a magazine widely read by women for its pro makeup tips.
Such traits, it seemed, could be donned the way a female impersonator might put on false eyelashes and high heels.
I wanted him to teach me how to be a woman, and he taught me to be a female impersonator.
Over the years, the subjects have run the gamut, including magazine profiles that ranged from the star female impersonator in Kabuki theater to Steve Jobs.
" The book displayed such scant interest in children, he wrote, that "there are times when one feels the book was written by a female impersonator.
When she finally finds love, it is with someone who shares her profession, the female impersonator and performer Paul L'astnamé, played by Will Forte, a both decent and perverse person (#RelationshipGoals).
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Texas on Wednesday executed a man convicted of strangling a female impersonator in Houston in 2001 and then stealing the victim's car, a prisons official said.
Known more widely at the time as "female impersonator" or "drag" contests, trans pageants are an anchoring tradition consistent throughout transgender history, dating back to the late 19th century in the US and earlier in Europe and Mexico.
And by no stretch would he have imagined that four decades on, at 85 years old, Walter would still regularly grace the stage as the oldest female impersonator in the country, or that their budding love affair would last more than 45 years, and that together they'd operate what's now considered the longest-running drag revue in the country.
I recently co-edited a book, Porno Chic and the Sex Wars: American Sexual Representation in the 1970s, and the contributors dug up material that greatly expands our historical narrative beyond the obvious canon of Deep Throat and The Devil in Miss Jones: Shaun Costello's 0003 hardcore Christmas Carol adaptation, The Passions of Carol; Bob Guccione's failed "Penthouse for women," Viva; forgotten magazines like Female Impersonator News; and the autoerotic gay smut of Peter Berlin.
Other descriptions include "biologically challenged" drag queen, "female female impersonator", or "female impersonator impersonator." All of these terms are generally considered acceptable only when used by the performer themselves, and many drag queens reject all terms that define them by their sex.
Malcolm Dalkeith Scott (7 March 1872 - 8 September 1929) was an English actor, female impersonator, comic entertainer and broadcaster.
Tightlacing was believed to have been a contributing factor in the death of female impersonator Joseph Hennella in 1912.
Scheuer, Philip K. "T. C. Jones, Brilliant Female Impersonator", Los Angeles Times, September 2, 1958, p. B8. ProQuest Historical Newspapers, Ann Arbor, Michigan; subscription access through The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library. In 1959, the American magazine 'Time described Jones as "probably the best female impersonator since vaudeville's late famed Julian Eltinge".
James William Bailey (January 10, 1938 – May 30, 2015) was an American singer, film, television and stage actor, and female impersonator.
Charles Anderson (1883 - after 1937) was an American vaudeville entertainer, singer and female impersonator, known as a pioneer performer of blues songs.
After many years as a female impersonator, Jazzmun announced (circa 2008) she is a transgender woman. She has stated, "It's not so much as a physical thing but mental and spiritual for me." Jazzmun has played drag queen, transvestite, and female impersonator characters in film and television. Her first role playing a transgender character on television came in 2003 on Nip/Tuck.
Bothwell Browne in 1908 Bothwell Browne (born Walter Bothwell Bruhn; 1877–1947) was a Danish American stage and film performer, best known as a female impersonator.
Tracey Lee (real name Maxwell Ritchie) (1933–1990) was an internationally acclaimed Australian cabaret artiste and female impersonator who was active from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Bobby Marchan (born Oscar James Gibson, April 30, 1930 – December 5, 1999) was an American rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, recording artist, bandleader, MC, and female impersonator.
George Francis Peduzzi (June 13, 1897 - July 23, 1947), known professionally as Karyl Norman, was an American female impersonator who was popular in vaudeville, nightclubs and on Broadway in the 1920s.
Andrews is survived by seven children, 19 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. She is the paternal great- grandmother of female impersonator LeJeune Davis, known professionally as Tina Kennedy (formerly Tina Thompson).
He mainly performed as a female impersonator as females were not allowed in theatres in those times. He played role of Desdemona as a female impersonator in Saubhagya Sundari, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello by Parsi theatre in Bombay. It was successful and Jaishankar received his sobriquet Sundari (). He performed female lead opposite Bapulal Nayak several times including in Jugal Jugari (Jugal the Gambler), Kamlata (Lovestruck Girl, 1904), Madhu Bansari (Sweet Flute) and Sneh Sarita (River of Affection), Vikrama Charitra (Vikrama's Life, 1902).
"Barbra, Liza Sing Praises Of Jim Bailey He Specializes In Streisand And Garland, But Don't Call Him A Female Impersonator. He Prefers 'Character Actor.'", The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 27, 1995. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
Meanwhile, in San Francisco, Bothwell Browne was the top female impersonator of the West Coast. He performed at the Grand Opera House and Central Theater, among other venues, went on tour with United Vaudeville, and later appeared in the film Yankee Doodle in Berlin (1919), produced by Mack Sennett. At this time being a female impersonator was seen as something for the straight white male, and any deviation was punished. Connection with sex work and homosexuality eventually lead to the decline of vaudeville during the Progressive Era.
Why not? Victoria could indeed be a man – Europe's greatest female impersonator! Victoria says he's crazy. Toddy pursues his argument, and dreams up Count Victor Grazinsky – a gay Polish aristocrat and Toddy's new lover (Trust Me).
Röbi Rapp (May 27, 1930 - August 26, 2018) was a Swiss actor influential in the European LGBT social movement. He was a female impersonator and cabaret star as well as a member of Der Kreis (The Circle).
A 1986 Off-Broadway musical, Dial "M" For Model by John Epperson, inspired by Millie but not a direct adaptation, was staged at LaMaMa E.T.C. It featured the female impersonator Lypsinka as Mannequin St. Claire, a character based on Chili.
In 1932, Ray (Rae) Bourbon was working full-time as a female impersonator at clubs such as Jimmy's Back Yard in Hollywood and Tait's in San Francisco. At the latter, in May 1933, police raided his "Boys Will Be Girls" review during a live radio broadcast. In the later 1930s and early 1940s, he headlined at the Rendezvous in Los Angeles and starred in his own revue titled "Don't Call Me Madam". Through the 1950s and 1960s, Bourbon entertained at hundreds of clubs throughout the U.S. and released dozens of albums, certainly the most prolific female impersonator to have done the latter.
Richard Anthony Baker, British Music Hall: an illustrated history, Pen & Sword, 2014, , pp.180-182 By 1902, he determined to become a female impersonator, presenting "a feminine character of a higher tone than the average dame", while always retaining "a masculine face".
Christopher Jarman Morley (born c. 1951) is an American actor and female impersonator. He specialized in cross-dressing roles. He played numerous parts in television and movies, most known for his parts in Freebie and the Bean (1974) and General Hospital (1980).
Jon Serl was born as Josef Searls in 1894 in Olean, New York. He was the fifth child of seven. He grew up in a vaudevillian theatrical family. This contributed to his early artistic talents, including performance, acting, dancing, singing and as a female impersonator.
Francis Leon in his female persona Francis Leon (born Francis Patrick Glassey; 21 Nov 1844 – after 1883) was a blackface minstrel performer best known for his work as a female impersonator. He was largely responsible for making the prima donna a fixture of blackface minstrelsy.
The Fascinating Widow is a 1910 musical comedy written by Otto Hauerbach as a vehicle for the female impersonator Julian Eltinge. The play premiered in Atlantic City, New Jersey, then toured the United States for 10 months before appearing on Broadway in September 1911.
In the cross-dressing community the persona a man adopts when he dresses as a woman is known as his "femme self". In 1987, Robyn Dormer started a magazine called "En Femme" that was "for the transvestite, transsexual, crossdresser, and female impersonator." The magazine ran until 1991.
Bettie Page returns presenting act cards while performing a few burlesque moves as she presents. Following are a comic, a female impersonator, the Barrow and Rodgers dance team, additional songs, and can-can dancers. The film ends with a pastie-covered reveal of Lili St. Cyr's chest.
In his youth, he worked as a dancer and as a female impersonator"The REAL Tent Show Queens: What Was on Their Mind?" Corey @ I'll Keep You Posted, April 5, 2011]. Retrieved 27 October 2016. but developed as a singer when he began performing at Atlanta's 81 Theater.
Patrick Fyffe (23 January 1942-11 May 2002) was an English female impersonator, best known for playing the character of Dame Hilda Bracket, alongside George Logan as Dr Evadne Hinge as the duo "Hinge and Bracket". Fyffe's original accompanist was Jim Hardwick, a men's hairdresser, also from Stafford.
Nayak was inspired by a performance by female impersonator Jaishankar Sundari to join a Bhavai troupe at the age of nine. He joined Deshi Natak Samaj in Surat, where he played female impersonator roles. He later worked with Aryaniti Natak Samaj—owned by Motiram Nandwana—and Vidyavinod Natak Samaj owned by Pyarelal Viththalrao Mehta. He later joined Mumbai Gujarati Natak Mandali, where he was trained under Surajram Nayak, Jaishankar Sundari and Bapulal Nayak. In Mumbai, he appeared in a supporting female role as Kashi—a woman from Banaras—in Kumali Kali (Delicate Bud, 1926), and later in College Kanya (College Girl, 1925), which brought him fame in the Bombay theatre circuit (now Mumbai) at the age of fifteen.
In 1971, Carter became the first female impersonator to perform at Carnegie Hall. Critics attributed his success to his ability to give his characterizations authenticity and depth as well as humor. Carter's final performances were in "Hooray for Hollywood," a revue at the St. Regis-Sheraton Hotel in 1984."Lynne Carter" [obituary].
Chapal Bhaduri is the last living female impersonator in Bengali theatre and perhaps even in Indian theatre. He did female impersonation in Jatra, a form of Bengali folk theatre. In 2010, he starred in a Bengali Film Arekti Premer Golpo which was directed by Kaushik Ganguly and written by Ganguly and Rituparno Ghosh.
A film based on the book was proposed in 1960. Edward Small bought the film rights in 1968. Jorgensen later claimed under the contract she would be entitled to 10% of the gross and 3.5% of the budget. "Every female impersonator in the world came flying into Hollywood demanding he was Christine", said Jorgensen later.
Victor and Victoria () is a 1957 German musical comedy film directed by Karl Anton and starring Johanna von Koczian, Georg Thomalla and Johannes Heesters. A woman gains success on the stage by pretending to be a female impersonator. It is a remake of the 1933 film Victor and Victoria, which had starred Renate Müller.Prawer p.
The Clever Mrs. Carfax is a 1917 American comedy silent film directed by Donald Crisp and written by Gardner Hunting and Hector Turnbull. The film features female impersonator Julian Eltinge and stars Daisy Jefferson, Noah Beery, Sr., Rosita Marstini, Jennie Lee, and Fred Church. The film was released on November 5, 1917, by Paramount Pictures.
Frank Marino (born November 20, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York) is a female impersonator dubbed "Ms. Las Vegas" for his longtime starring role as Joan Rivers in the Las Vegas drag revue Frank Marino's Divas Las Vegas, which played at The Linq (formerly known as Imperial Palace and The Quad) on the Las Vegas Strip until June 2018.
In 1933 he cut a few sides with Half Pint Jaxon, a female impersonator. Soon after his recordings with Jaxon, Simpson apparently became mentally disturbed, and was institutionalized in 1935 in Elgin, Illinois.Chilton 1985, p. 303 While there, he continued to play piano and vibraphone in a hospital dance band, and played bass drum in the hospital's marching band.
La Cage aux Folles II is a 1980 French comedy film and the sequel to 1978's La Cage aux Folles. It is directed by Édouard Molinaro and stars Michel Serrault as Albin (stage name ZaZa), the female impersonator star of a gay night-club revue, and Ugo Tognazzi as Renato, his partner of over 20 years.
A 1994 documentary film, Sis: The Perry Watkins Story, recounts his career as a female impersonator. The University of Michigan Law School awards a fellowship named in Watkins’ honor annually. Papers related to his lawsuits are held at the Lambda Archives of San Diego. Season 3, episode 2 of the podcast “Making Gay History” is about him.
On February 3, 2010, Williams made an appearance on his older sister Vanessa Williams' series Ugly Betty playing Wilhelldiva Hater, a female impersonator of her character raida. In 2012, he was featured in an Apple commercial. More recently, he has starred as the bodyguard of tech billionaire Gavin Belson on the HBO comedy series Silicon Valley.
Feeling hurt because of not receiving his previously agreed sum, Mulani left the company. Mulani returned to the company and rewrote Saubhagya Sundari (1901), an adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello. The company introduced Jaishankar Bhojak, then aged 12, in 1901, who mainly performed as a female impersonator as females were not allowed in theatres in those times.
Jon Serl was one of his several pseudonyms. In his young adult days he worked as a peripatetic female impersonator performer known as "Slats". He was called Jerry Palmer when the silent film era ended in the late 1920s with the first Sound film. He was a voiceover artist for actors whose voices did not fit well in 'talkies'.
In 2012, Gracen formed Flapper Films. In 2014, she starred in Coherence, a sci-fi indie thriller. In January 2016, Gracen established Flapper Press and self-published Shalilly, a young adult fantasy novel. Gracen made her directorial debut with a documentary short, "The Damn Deal" about three young drag queens from Arkansas who compete in female impersonator beauty pageants.
His careers as a stand-up comic and female impersonator are mostly behind him. Fierstein resides in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Fierstein's signature gravelly voice is a result of an overdeveloped vestibular fold in his vocal cords, essentially giving him a "double voice" when he speaks. Prior to puberty, Fierstein was a soprano in a professional boys' choir.
Lori Shannon (May 18, 1938 - February 13, 1984), born Don Seymour McLean, was an openly gay female impersonator, most widely known for his recurring role from 1975 to 1977 as Beverly LaSalle on the popular sitcom All in the Family. He was associated with the drag revues at Finocchio's club in San Francisco, and wrote an entertainment column for the Bay Area Reporter.
Bettie Page performed a "particularly sexy but amateurish" Dance of the Seven Veils in the film. One performance by female impersonator Vicki Lynn in the film was said to have "crystallized the transgressive potential of the burlesque film." Varietease is one of the "famous compilations" of "classic burlesque shows." The film was rereleased by Something Weird Video in 2006, sharing release with Teaserama.
Elizabeth's first music hall performance is a great success, despite runaway geese storming the stage and spilt milk causing her to slip over several times. Music hall promoter McLintock comes backstage and offers Elizabeth a contract. Elizabeth begins touring Europe as female impersonator 'Bill' using Victor's stage name 'Victoria'. Princess Miranoff and her fiancé Robert attend one of 'Bill's' performances.
Rapp was born in Zürich. At a young age he became a Swiss child actor, including starring in the lead role in the 1941 film "Das Menschlein Matthias." As an adult, Rapp performed as a female impersonator and was a personal friend of Karl Meier. Rapp worked as a hairdresser and later was a teacher at the hairdressing school of Jonny Fahrny.
Niles Marsh was a female impersonator who began his career on the Broadway stage and then, from the early 1920s to the mid-1940s, rose to become one of the best known drag performers on the American vaudeville and nightclub circuits. He was one of many such artists who, during that period, encapsulated what was known as the Pansy Craze.
O'Dea would be a massive influence on Young who, like Young, was a highly skilled comic and female impersonator. He would also be influenced by many visiting English music hall acts. At the age of 14 Young left school and found work as a rent collector for a local estate agent. Young collected rent from some of the toughest districts in Belfast.
When they are about to leave together, Joanna Hartman (Emma Harrison) turns up and reveals to Annalise that she is her half-sister. Joanna introduces Annalise to their father, Tony Hartman (Michael Carman). Annalise initially struggles to accept his job as a female impersonator, but they reconcile. Tony gives Annalise and Joanna some money and they set up their own public relations company.
Daily Telegraph obituary He served in the Royal Navy as a young man following in his father's footsteps, and for a time worked delivering groceries. He became known as a female impersonator, or "comic in a frock" as he preferred to be called it, in the United Kingdom and was featured in theatre productions, and in film, television and records.
Henry "Rubberlegs" Williams (14 July 1907 in Atlanta - 17 October 1962 in New York City) was an American blues and jazz singer, dancer and occasional female impersonator. A star of Vaudeville, he is probably best remembered for his singing work with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, although it was for his dancing that he was renowned for in New York City and Boston.
After many years of discussions, the town government accepted this statue on behalf of the local Zarah Leander Society. A Zarah Leander museum is open near her mansion outside Norrköping. Every year a scholarship is given to a creative artist in her tradition. The performer received the prize in 2010, the female impersonator in 2009, and Zarah's friend and creator of the museum Brigitte Pettersson in 2008.
Rex Jameson, né Coster, (11 June 1924 – 5 March 1983) was a comedian and female impersonator known for his creation and stage persona Mrs Shufflewick. After radio and television success in the 1950s and early 1960s, his career declined sharply because of his alcohol abuse. He returned to a niche celebrity in the 1970s in his drag act at The Black Cap, Camden Town, London.
Eminem even spoofed himself, wearing an ALF T-shirt and holding a cake, referencing a commonly circulated pre-fame photo of him of when he was an adolescent. The video features appearances from Lisa Ann as Sarah Palin, Trisha Paytas as Jessica Simpson, and Derrick Barry, a famous Britney Spears female impersonator, as Spears. The video also features appearances from Dr. Dre and 50 Cent as themselves.
Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Company, 1994. They were known to perform song and dance routines with multiple outfit changes. In New York City, famous female impersonator Julian Eltinge found success, and he eventually made his way to the Broadway stage performing as a woman. He published a magazine, Magazine and Beauty Hints (1913), which provided beauty and fashion tips, and he posed for corset and cosmetics advertisements.
Christy first became a model with the help of Lenny Burtman, an editor for the fetish magazine Exotique. She then became a stripper and showgirl at Club 82. She toured the United States as a female impersonator, subsequently working as a photographer for the publications Mode Avantgarde, Hooker, Eros, and Exposé. She eventually became editor of the publication Female Mimics and the aforementioned Exotique.
The show was broadcast on CBC Television, and noted for its Oscars-like production design, with production numbers including a jazz dance performance by Jeff Hyslop and Karen Kain set to the tune of "Dancing in the Dark", and female impersonator Craig Russell in character as Judy Garland.Meg Floyd, "Jazzing up the Genies". The Globe and Mail, March 15, 1980. The show was not without controversy.
His clients included the famous female impersonator Ernest Byne (1848–1904), the Hanlon Brothers, and Mlle. Marie Aimée (sv) (1852–1857). On May 7, 1879, Brown became partner with Morris Simmonds (1839–1896) in Simmonds & Brown, Dramatic Agents, and continued to run the company after Simmonds died. As early as 1858, Brown had begun compiling stories and biographies of theatrical performers in the United States.
George and Georgette (French: Georges et Georgette) is a 1934 German comedy film directed by Roger Le Bon and Reinhold Schünzel and starring Julien Carette, Meg Lemonnier and Anton Walbrook. It is the French-language version of the film Victor and Victoria.Prawer p.193 A woman pretends to be a male female impersonator and enjoys great success on the stage, but has trouble concealing her secret when she falls in love.
Jaishankar Bhudhardas Bhojak, (30 January 1889 – 22 January 1975) better known by his theatre name Jaishankar Sundari , was an Indian actor and director of Gujarati theatre. Starting at the young age, he rose to fame for his roles of female impersonator in early Gujarati plays. He retired from acting in 1932 but returned to theatre direction and teaching in 1948. He directed and acted in several successful plays.
In London, he performed at the Room at the Top and the Winston Club in Mayfair, where he replaced Danny La Rue for an extended season.David Williams (ed), Performing Arts Yearbook of Australia, Vol 4 (1980), p 137. Lee also toured extensively through Africa. He became the first professional female impersonator to perform on stage in South Africa, and also appeared in Rhodesia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Senegal and Kenya.
The single's music video depicted RuPaul along with female impersonator Jazzmun and transgender cabaret performer Candis Cayne as aliens out to conquer the world. The video received a GLAAD Media Award nomination for "Best Video of 1998." The clip, directed by Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey, was in included on RuPaul's Work It Girl compilation DVD. RuPaul performed the song that same year on The Ricki Lake Show.
Chandler Muriel Bing is a fictional character from the NBC sitcom Friends, portrayed by Matthew Perry. He was born on April 24, 1968, to Nora Tyler Bing (Morgan Fairchild), an erotic romance novelist, and Charles Bing (Kathleen Turner), a gay female impersonator and star of a Las Vegas drag show called "Viva Las Gay-gas" as Helena Handbasket. His star sign is Taurus. He is of Scottish and Swedish ancestry.
Juwanna Mann is a 2002 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Jesse Vaughan. The film stars Miguel A. Núñez Jr. as Jamal Jeffries, a basketball star becoming a female impersonator and joining women's basketball, after being banned from men's basketball. The film also stars Vivica A. Fox, Kevin Pollak, Tommy Davidson, Kim Wayans, Ginuwine, and J. Don Ferguson. The movie was written by Bradley Allenstein and produced by Bill Gerber.
He died of a heart attack on July 28, 2003 in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, following a performance that was part of his first tour performing comedy out of drag."Female impersonator could play it straight; Robert Timbrell also in films, TV 'He was a howl, he stole the show'". Toronto Star, August 11, 2003. Following his death, writer Jeffrey Round prepared and released a documentary film, Driving with Rusty.
In the 1930s Silver Lake and Echo Park still comprised Edendale and acted as a space where members of the LGBT community were able to express their identities. Prominent female impersonator Julian Eltinge built his house in Silver Lake and performed until the city passed laws criminalizing cross-dressing, after which he continued to recount his drag performances to audiences.Hurewitz, Daniel (2007). Bohemian Los Angeles and the Making of Modern Politics.
The next morning, Richard shows up to collect his things. Victoria, who is wearing his suit and hat, hides in Toddy's closet. When Richard opens the closet door, she punches Richard, breaks his nose and kicks him out. Seeing this, Toddy is struck with the inspiration of passing Victoria off as a man and presenting her to Andre Cassell, the most successful agent in Paris, as a female impersonator.
Morley was featured as a female impersonator in a pictorial article in the May 1975 issue of Playboy, photographed by Mario Casilli. In the 1980s and 1990s Morley was one of the foremost Marilyn Monroe impressionists, starring at the La Cage aux Folles Dinner Theatre in Los Angeles. Later he toured with their various road shows, An Evening At La Cage, playing Las Vegas, Toronto, Taipei, and Helsinki.
Ultimately, the girlie show emerged as a form in its own right. Mainstream minstrelsy continued to emphasize its propriety, but traditional troupes adopted some of these elements in the guise of the female impersonator. A well-played wench character became critical to success in the postwar period.. Many later minstrel troupes, such as this one in 1910, tried to project an image of refinement. Note that only the endmen are in blackface.
Khambhata was born in 1856 in Bombay to a Parsi family. He was raised in Cambay, Khambhat, Gujarat, and joined theatre at a young age. At age 14, he received acclaim for his role as Arnavaz in Kaikhushru Kabraji's play Jamshed (1870). He also played female impersonator roles and was praised for his role of a fairy, Mahru Pari, in Aram's play Benazir-Badremunir (Benazir and Badremunir, 1872), produced by the Victoria Theatrical Company.
She has also had sex with Kevin Federline. Jenna's husband, Paul L'Astname (Will Forte) is a "gender dysmorphic bi-genitalia pansexual" and a professional female impersonator most renowned for his performances as Jenna. She met him at a Jenna Maroney impersonator contest in which she came in fourth and he placed first. Before they were married it was revealed that she is so attracted to him because he gives her the opportunity to date herself.
A brief uproar arises when the bride's famous diamond necklace, brought out of the family vault for the occasion, is reported stolen, but the thief and her accomplice are caught red-handed. Peter shocks the assembled wedding party by exposing the Dowager Countess's French lady's maid as a man in disguise, Jacques le Rouge, a.k.a. Jacques sans-Culotte, a notorious safecracker, burglar and female impersonator. Jacques admits defeat, asking Peter how he knew.
It was at the Flamingos nightclub where Bogue began a career as a Female impersonator. She suffered numerous arrests by the police, spending nights in prison, abuse, sexual violence, and various beatings due to transphobia and homophobia. In 1985, Bogue moved to Acapulco where she was part of the transvestite show that was performed at the Gallery nightclub. There she made imitations of figures such as Annie Lennox, Nina Hagen and Madonna.
Starring Bapulal Nayak and Jaishankar Bhojak in lead roles as well as Mohanlala in the role of Madhav, the play became a major success and Jaishankar became known for his female impersonator role of Sundari. The pairing of Bapulal Nayak and Jaishankar Sundari became popular with the audience and they starred together in many plays later on. Prabhashankar 'Ramani' acted in his several plays and rose to fame. Jugal Jugari (1902) was his social play.
Divine followed this production with a very different role, that of gay male gangster Hilly Blue in Trouble in Mind (1985). The script was written with Divine in mind. Although not a major character in the film, Divine had been eager to play the part because he wished to perform in more male roles and leave behind the stereotype of simply being a female impersonator. Reviews of the film were mixed, as were the evaluations of Divine's performance.
Fanny and Johnnie Cradock spent their final years living at Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex. They became regulars on the chat show circuit, and also appeared on programmes such as The Generation Game and Blankety Blank. Fanny appeared alone on Wogan, Parkinson and TV-am. When she appeared on the television chat show Parkinson with Danny La Rue and it was revealed to her that La Rue was actually a female impersonator, she stormed off the set.
Joseph Stevens, best known by the nickname "Jae," was discovered on June 25, 1974, by a woman walking along Spreckels Lake in San Francisco. Stevens was 27 and had died shortly before his body was found; he had been witnessed at a club the previous day. He was employed as a "female impersonator" and comedian. Officers suspected that Stevens was alive at the time he had been at Spreckels Lake, possibly transporting himself to the area with his killer.
In 1935, Bessie Jackson (Lucille Bogan) released her song "B.D. Woman Blues" (the B.D. standing for Bull Daggers). Frankie "half-Pint" Jackson, another blues artist of this time, was known for singing as a female impersonator and in 1929 released a song titled "My Daddy Rocks Me With One Steady Roll". This period was also a time for "cross-vocals", which are songs intended to be sung by a woman but are sung by men instead, without changing pronouns.
Ludlam did object to being identified solely as a gay, female impersonator who produced works that were merely camp. Morris Meyer commented on Ludlam's ambivalence when discussing an interview he conducted with Ludlam: "During a subsequent run of Camille in 1974, he argued emphatically two seemingly contradictory positions for his production. He maintained that his rendering of Camille is not an expression of homosexuality and, at the same time, that it represents a form of coming out."Meyer, Morris.
By 1969, he had developed the "alter ego" Darcelle and came out as gay. He left his wife and began a relationship with his artistic director Roxy Neuhardt, although they remained legally married, his relationship with his children was strained. During the 1970s, the Showplace became a popular destination for cabaret and drag performance. In 1999, Darcelle became the oldest female impersonator on the West Coast, after the closing of San Francisco's drag venue Finocchio's Club.
Patsy Vidalia (born Irving Ale; 1921 - August 29, 1982), also known as Jack- Patsy Vidalia, was an American female impersonator, singer and entertainer who was prominent in the social life of New Orleans from the 1940s to 1960s. His second name is given with various spellings, including Valdalia, Valdelar, Valdeler, Vadalia, and Valdia. He was born in Vacherie, Louisiana, the son of Orelia and Willie Ale.Bob L. Eagle, Eric S. LeBlanc, Blues: A Regional Experience, ABC-CIO, 2013, p.
Binder was born in Rosedale, Mississippi, on November 18, 1928. He began singing with his mother and aunts in church. As a child his family relocated to St. Louis, where he was introduced to blues music by a female impersonator named "Toots", who would play St. Louis blues style piano while Binder sat on his lap. His family moved to Chicago around 1939 where Binder taught himself how to play piano, determined to become a recording artist.
Nick has attempted many jobs, such as a female impersonator, stunt-man, stripper, magician, landlord and exorcist but was hopelessly unsuccessful at all of them. Kris Marshall left at the end of series 4 as he had grown tired with portraying an immature character much younger than his actual age. He guested for two episodes of series 5 and the 2005 Comic Relief Special before never returning to the show again. He is often mentioned after his departure.
Mr. Jello is an arrangement of realistic vignettes that intersect to form a surrealistic social statement, with characters including a female impersonator, a gay married man, and a hustler. Mr. Jello was later produced at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in 1974.La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. "Production: Mr. Jello (1974)". Accessed June 20, 2018. Georgie Porgie, first produced on November 20, 1968, is another play of vignettes, illustrating the destructive force of self-hatred in gay men.
In 2008 Davis released his directorial debut Pageant, which featured the 2005 Miss Gay America female impersonator pageant. He co-wrote, co-produced and co-directed the feature-length documentary that followed five drag queens as they competed for the title. During its showings at film festivals the movie became "critically acclaimed", and was awarded festival prizes. Pageant received its television broadcast debut on the Sundance Channel after winning a total of ten awards from film festivals.
He has appeared both as his Joan Rivers persona and as himself in several movies and TV shows. Once sued by Rivers for $5,000,000 (US) in the 1980s, the pair later reconciled and appeared on TV shows together. Frank Marino is the highest-paid female impersonator in the world bringing in over $2.5 million a year for his show Divas Las Vegas and is worth over $20 million. He has earned the title of "Entertainer of the Century" from Las Vegas Today Magazine.
Torch Song Trilogy is a 1988 American comedy-drama film adapted by Harvey Fierstein from his play of the same name. The film was directed by Paul Bogart and stars Fierstein as Arnold, Anne Bancroft as Ma Beckoff, Matthew Broderick as Alan, Brian Kerwin as Ed, and Eddie Castrodad as David. Executive Producer Ronald K. Fierstein is Harvey Fierstein's brother. Wanting to highlight the work of female impersonator Charles Pierce, Fierstein created the role of Bertha Venation specifically for him.
Despite his additional work in films and on television, Jones in the 1960s continued his regular stage and nightclubs shows. The Los Angeles Times, for example, announces the following in its August 6, 1965 edition: "Wardrobe and wigs valued at more than $100,000 will be worn by T. C. Jones, female impersonator, when he opens Tuesday in his one- man revue, 'That Was No Lady,' at the Ivar Theatre.""Impersonator Due", Los Angeles Times, August 6, 1965, p. C8. ProQuest.
Die, Mommie, Die! is a 2003 American satirical comedy film written by female impersonator Charles Busch, who also plays the lead role. Partly spoof and partly homage, it draws heavily on the tropes and themes of American "Psycho- biddy" films and plays from the 1950s and 1960s that featured strong, sometimes dominating female leads, such as those by Bette Davis (Dead Ringer) and Ethel Merman (Gypsy). It is adapted from a play of the same name by Busch, first performed in 1999.
New York and London: Routledge. 110-123.. Tadashi Suzuki developed a unique method of performer training which integrated avant-garde concepts with classical noh and kabuki techniques, an approach that became a major creative force in Japanese and international theatre in the 1980s. Another highly original east–west fusion occurred in the inspired production Nastasya, adapted from Dostoevsky's The Idiot, in which Bando Tamasaburo, a famed Kabuki onnagata (female impersonator), played the roles of both the prince and his fiancée.
By the mid-1930s, vaudeville was effectively dead, so Marsh turned instead to the booming nightclub industry, which had burgeoned following the end of Prohibition. In 1935, he headlined the gala floor show at the Blue Ribbon Night Club in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he was described as "America's foremost female impersonator, presenting his famous impressions in dazzling gowns.""Blue Ribbon Night Club" [advertisement], Albuquerque Journal, August 31, 1935, p 11. During a subsequent nightclub appearance, Marsh was seen by Mrs.
All of these LPs were issued with cover artwork that was based on the original poster or playbill logos, and with detailed and erudite liner notes attributed to Niles Marsh. It remains unclear, however, if this is the same Niles Marsh who was a leading female impersonator on the pre- Second World War vaudeville circuit. The LPs bear no dates, although internal evidence (e.g. clues contained in the liner notes) indicates that the bulk of them were released between 1983 and 1986.
He played the role of Desdemona as a female impersonator in Saubhagya Sundari, opposite Bapulal Nayak. The play was successful and Jayshankar received his sobriquet, Sundari ('pretty woman'), for the lifetime. The pair soon rose to fame and acted together in several successful plays including in Jugal Jugari (Jugal the Gambler, 1902), Kamlata (Lovestruck Girl, 1904), Madhu Bansari (Sweet Flute, 1917) and Sneh Sarita (River of Affection, 1915), Vikrama Charitra (Vikrama's Life, 1902), Dage Hasrat (1901). Their pair continued till 1932.
It is also sung by a river boat crew in Bed of Roses, a film released the following year. Yvonne De Carlo sings the song while masquerading as an opera singer in the 1949 film The Gal Who Took the West. Moira Kelly sings it in the 1996 film Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story. The 1933 pre-Code film Arizona to Broadway features drag performer Gene Malin singing this song as he portrays Ray Best, a female impersonator and Mae West type.
Deliberately or not, Browne competed with the better-known female impersonator Julian Eltinge. Some audiences and theater managers found his act more seductive and therefore more unsettling than Eltinge. Browne's Broadway production Miss Jack opened in September 1911 at the Herald Square Theater, exactly one week before Eltinge's more successful The Fascinating Widow. Browne's only film appearance is the 1919 Mack Sennett production Yankee Doodle in Berlin, Sennett's highest-budget film up to that point, and a bit of World War I propaganda.
Barbette (December 19, 1898 – August 5, 1973) was an American female impersonator, high-wire performer, and trapeze artist born in Texas on December 19, 1898. Barbette attained great popularity throughout the United States but his greatest fame came in Europe and especially Paris, in the 1920s and 1930s. Barbette began performing as an aerialist at around the age of 14 as one-half of a circus act called The Alfaretta Sisters. After a few years of circus work, Barbette went solo and adopted his exotic-sounding pseudonym.
Sui Xiaoqing (left) as Xue Xiangling, Beijing, 6 August 2011 The play made the female impersonator Cheng Yanqiu a huge star in the 1940s. In 1954, the play was criticized by communists for "downplaying class conflict and promoting such reactionary ideas as returning kindness to the landlord class". Subsequently, performances stopped for over two decades in mainland China. In 2015, Peking opera superstar Zhang Huoding brought the play to the west when she made her American debut at Lincoln Center in New York City.
In a conversation with Cain, Maurice talked about what initially inspired him to take up toast as an artistic medium, his method of work, and how he has been stimulated by Pacific motifs. Buttercup Bakeries, a division of Goodman Fielders Australian Ltd, commissioned Maurice to make a large toast billboard. He used 2989 slices of Wonder white bread, toasted, to create an image of the international female impersonator Dame Edna Everage. The portrait measured 7.35m x 5.8m and covered an extremely large billboard in central Melbourne, Australia.
5 In a 2013 study of British comedy, John Fisher suggests that Jameson's Mrs Shufflewick kept alive the tragi-comic spirit of the music hall starr Nellie Wallace. For Fisher, Mrs Shufflewick was: Jameson collapsed with a heart attack while walking between gigs, and died in the Royal Free Hospital on 5 March 1983, at the age of 58.Cecil, Jonathan. "Jameson (formerly Coster), Rex (performing name Mrs Shufflewick) (1924–1983), comedian and female impersonator", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
At 18, she was introduced to drag and female impersonation through her then boyfriend who was a female impersonator and drag pageant contestant. In 1988, at 18, Andrews moved with him to San Antonio, Texas, where she made a name for herself in the drag circuit. Her first performance was at a club named Las Gueras to the song Break Away. She began performing on amateur nights at the now defunct Paper Moon night club (later The Saint) on Main Avenue in San Antonio.
Empires of Azure is narrated by St Jean, a journalist. The story is about Louis de Jenier, a celebrated female impersonator in early 20th-century Paradys who discovers a spider-shaped sapphire earring in his new house and becomes haunted by a ghost named Timonie, all the while imprisoned by his manager and bodyguard. Louis' friends, Curt and Vlok, attempt to save Louis by moving him away from the Paradys. Louis is in the hospital, but it is too late for anyone to save him.
Victor and Victoria () is a 1933 German musical comedy film directed by Reinhold Schünzel starring Renate Müller as a woman pretending to be a female impersonator. At the same time, Schünzel shot a French-language version of the film as George and Georgette starring Meg Lemonnier and a French cast. In 1935, Michael Balcon produced an English version titled First a Girl directed by Victor Saville and starring Jessie Matthews and Sonnie Hale. A West German remake by Karl Anton was released in 1957.
The old woman disguise was aided strongly by his expert acting skills, being a former professional actor and female impersonator. This same disguise also often raised Stanton above suspicion, and made him an expert in confidence trickery, infiltration, stealth, information gathering, and melting anonymously into crowds. Madame Fatal was also aided on occasion by his pet parrot, Hamlet, his only connection to his previous life. Hamlet was named so because he was intelligent enough to recite Shakespeare, and would inspire and help Stanton remember important information.
Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey) (New York: New American Library, 1989), pp. 318-333. Note 78 citing Hazel V. Carby, "Policing the Black Women's Body in the Urban Context," in Critical Inquiry (1992) pp. 738-755. At a particularly "open house" of a sex show, Ruby Smith said, "People used to pay good just to go in there and see him do his act."(sic.) An obese African-American female impersonator did her drag show at a buffet flat at 101 W. 140th Street.
Martin Worman (July 19, 1945 – November 25, 1993) was an actor, playwright, lyricist, director, female impersonator, activist and academic, working in the United States, primarily in San Francisco and New York City from the late 1960s through the early 1990s. He is most known for being a member of the psychedelic San Francisco drag troupe, The Cockettes. Later, he wrote a rock opera and worked in theater, both in San Francisco and (after 1979) in New York City.Biographical Note at Martin Worman papers, 1960-2008.
Cassell accepts her as Count Victor Grazinski, a gay Polish female impersonator and Toddy's new boyfriend. Cassell gets her a booking in a nightclub show and invites a collection of club owners to the opening. Among the guests is King Marchand, a Chicago gangster, and his ditzy blonde moll Norma Cassidy and burly bodyguard Bernstein, a.k.a. Squash. Victoria is an immediate hit, and King is smitten, but he is shocked when she is "revealed" to be a man at the end of the act.
Ritchie initially began working as a commercial artist for a city department store, but, as he later put it, "I couldn't see myself for the rest of my life sitting in an office in the back of a store, so I suppose that's what drove me into this line of work". He commenced his career as a professional female impersonator in 1953, with an appearance at the Stork Club at Tom Ugly's Point, south of Sydney. He created the persona of Tracey Lee in 1959, while appearing at Andre's nightspot.
John Hunter was a New Zealand performer, best known as a star female impersonator with the Kiwis Revue which performed in New Zealand and Australia in the 1940s and 1950s. In the Kiwis revues, he notably performed two-hander scenes from Noel Coward's Private Lives and Bitter Sweet playing both male and female roles. He travelled to London in 1950 to study ballet, although rejoined the Kiwis in Australia by 1951. Hunter performed in the mid to late 1950s with the New Zealand Players including as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1954.
Candis also co-starred in the music video for RuPaul's "A Little Bit of Love" with female impersonator Jazzmun. Cayne also starred as the title character in the 1998 independent film Mob Queen, and won the 2001 Miss Continental pageant. In 2007 Cayne was cast as Annaka Manners in the 2007 RuPaul film Starrbooty. From 2007 to 2008 Cayne played Carmelita Rainer, a trans woman having an affair with married New York Attorney General Patrick Darling (played by William Baldwin), on the ABC prime time drama Dirty Sexy Money.
A Broadway musical adaptation, Carrie, was staged in 1988; it had transferred to Broadway from the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon- Avon, England. The book and orchestrations were revised and updated for a 2012 Off-Broadway production. The 2012 Off-Broadway production was a moderate success receiving mainly positive reviews unlike its predecessor.Carrie (1988)Carrie (2012) Playwright Erik Jackson acquired King's consent to stage a non-musical spoof, which premiered off-Broadway in 2006 with female impersonator Keith Levy (also known as Sherry Vine) in the lead role.
She suggested that the novel was deservedly neglected, criticising Lawrence's "protofascist tone", "fondness of force", "arrogance", and "racial, class, and religious bigotries." She maintained that the novel showed his search for triumph in politics and other areas of life, and that it records his invention of a religion of "male supremacy", with its prose celebrating "phallic supremacy". She described Leslie as a "female impersonator". The English professor Marianna Torgovnick suggested that the novel "advocates women’s slavelike submission to men and surrender of the drive toward orgasm" and suffered from "overblown prose".
Established playwrights and directors such as Norman Briski, Roberto Cossa, Lito Cruz, Carlos Gorostiza, Pacho O'Donnell, and Pepe Soriano, and younger dramatists such as Luis Agostoni, Carlos María Alsina, Eduardo Rovner, and Rafael Spregelburd. Works by these and other local authors, as well as local productions of international works, are among the over 80 theater works presented every weekend in Buenos Aires, alone. The stage also plays host to well-known comedy acts, such as those of satirist Enrique Pinti, female impersonator Antonio Gasalla, storyteller Luis Landriscina, and the musical comedy troupe, Les Luthiers.
In the days before gay liberation, female impersonator clubs provided semi-public social spaces for sexual minorities to congregate. Finocchio's often featured traditional drag, with performers in gowns singing or lip-synching to top 40 ballads. Finocchio's was "off limits" during World War II, not due to the entertainment, but rather for selling liquor to the military outside the authorized hours of sales. On December 31, 1943 the ban was lifted after Joe Finocchio and other bar owners signed an agreement to limit liquor sales to military personnel between 5 pm and midnight.
'Thomas Craig "T. C." Jones (October 26, 1920 – September 25, 1971) was an American female impersonator, actor, and dancer who from the mid-1940s to the late 1960s performed on stage, in nightclubs, films, and on television. He was known chiefly in the entertainment industry for his imitations in full costume of many famous actresses and other women, including Tallulah Bankhead, Mae West, Judy Garland, Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Édith Piaf, and Carmen Miranda."T. C. Jones, Impersonator Of Actresses", obituary, The Washington Post (Washington, D. C.), September 28, 1971, p. C4. ProQuest.
Jones in the 1950s married Connie S. Dickson, a former actress and competitive fencer, who owned a chain of beauty parlors in San Francisco."A Top Female Impersonator And Mimic Coming", South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), June 13, 1962, p. 7. ProQuest. She, in fact, met Jones for the first time when he visited one of her parlors in search of a new wig for his performances. The couple maintained a home in San Francisco for many years, sharing it at one point with 19 Siamese cats.
Victor takes her back to his boarding house and she irons the dress to make it look as if it hasn't been worn. Victor receives a letter asking him to perform his drag act but he has lost his voice due to being caught in the rain. As Elizabeth consoles him she realises that she has forgotten the iron - it has burned a hole in Princess Miranoff's dress. Elizabeth begins to laugh at their misfortune and Victor has a brainwave: Elizabeth could stand in for him and pose as a female impersonator.
Anderson regularly performed as a female impersonator, in costume as an archetypal "mammy", and performed songs including "Baby Seals Blues" and W. C. Handy's "Saint Louis Blues". Ethel Waters, long regarded as the first performer of the latter song, stated that she had first heard it sung by Anderson in Baltimore in 1917. Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff, ""They Cert'ly Sound Good to Me": Sheet Music, Southern Vaudeville, and the Commercial Ascendancy of the Blues", American Music, Vol. 14, No. 4, New Perspectives on the Blues (Winter, 1996), pp.
The vocal numbers in the film are presented as nightclub acts, with choreography by Paddy Stone. However, the lyrics or situations of some of the songs are calculated to relate to the unfolding drama. Thus, the two staged numbers "Le Jazz Hot" and "The Shady Dame from Seville" help to present Victoria as a female impersonator. The latter number is later reinterpreted by Toddy for diversionary purposes in the plot, and the cozy relationship of Toddy and Victoria is promoted by the song "You and Me", which is sung before the audience at the nightclub.
Cherdonna Shinatra is the stage name of Jody Kuehner (born 1980), a Seattle- based, American dancer, drag queen and performance artist. Kuehner won the Stranger Genius Award in Performance in 2015. Kuehner has been called a "female impersonator impersonator" and describes her own performance as Cherdonna as "a female-bodied person, presenting as a male-bodied person, presenting as a female". She has been mistaken for a man by some audience members who don't expect to see the "exaggerat[ed] femininity" displayed by a drag persona to be a biological woman.
Female Trouble proved to be Divine's favorite of his films, because it both allowed him to develop his character and to finally play a male role, something he had always felt important because he feared being typecast as a female impersonator. Divine was also responsible for singing the theme tune for Female Trouble, although it was never released as a single. Divine remained proud of the film, although it received a mixed critical reception. In 1977, Divine co-starred in the revue Restless Underwear, alongside Canadian rock band Rough Trade, which played at Massey Hall in Toronto.
The next day Martín, takes cares of Begoña's wounds inflected in the attack and as a friend and mentor to Mikel, he recommends him a therapist in Bilbao. After his first session, Mikel joins an old friend in a bar and gets drunk. Mikel wakes up the following morning, knowing that he has had sex with Fama, a female impersonator, whose show he has seen at the bar. Realizing what he has done, humiliated and confused, Mikel embarks on a suicidal drive down the wrong side of the motorway, but swerves aside in time to avoid a crash.
Ending up in San Francisco, Brevard found a job as a female impersonator at Finocchio's Club in San Francisco under the stage name Lee Shaw in the early 1960s, doing Marilyn Monroe impressions, eventually achieving enough renown that Marilyn herself came to a performance. Brevard began her transition at 21 under the care of famed gender specialist Harry Benjamin in the late 1950s. At Benjamin's recommendation, Brevard underwent the surgical reassignment procedure in Los Angeles's Westlake Clinic under the care of surgeon Elmer Belt. Brevard later worked as a stripper in Reno and as a Playboy bunny.
In Some Like It Hot (1959), two struggling musicians have to dress as women to escape the ire of gangsters. The film is a remake of a 1935 French movie, Fanfare of Love, from the story by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan, which was itself remade in 1951 by German director Kurt Hoffmann as Fanfares of Love. In Blake Edwards's 1982 musical comedy film Victor Victoria, Victoria Grant, a struggling soprano, is unable to find work but she finds success when she becomes "Count Victor Grazinski", a female impersonator. The film is a remake of Viktor und Viktoria, a German film of 1933.
Although some people had strongly advised Sillman not to cast Jones, the producer stated, "I never think of T.C. as a female impersonator, as a man imitating a woman. T.C. on stage is simply an extraordinarily talented woman."Quoted in Senelick, p. 356. Jones in the revue entered the stage by descending a staircase to the tune "Isn't She Lovely" and, as Bankhead, acted as mistress of ceremonies.Senelick, p. 356. The show proved to be a hit, running for 220 performances.Botto, et al, p. 285. The following year Jones starred in Mask and Gown, another Broadway revue.
He bought the rights to that script, and Wilder worked with this to produce a new story. Both films follow the story of two musicians in search of work, but Wilder created the gangster subplot that keeps the musicians on the run. The studio hired female impersonator Barbette to coach Lemmon and Curtis on gender illusion for the film. Monroe worked for 10 percent of the gross in excess of $4 million, Curtis for 5 percent of the gross over $2 million, and Wilder for 17.5 percent of the first million after break-even and 20 percent thereafter.
Originally opened as the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre, in 1912, it was designed by noted theatre architect Thomas W. Lamb, and named for Julian Eltinge, an American stage and film actor best known as a female impersonator. Its first production was Bayard Veiller's Within the Law, a hit that ran for more than a year. Originally specializing in light comedies, it suffered during the Great Depression and in 1931 became a burlesque theatre, then a movie theater in 1942. It was renamed the Empire Theatre in 1954, after the demolition of the previous theatre of the same name.
Born in Youngstown, Ohio, Marchan started as a female impersonator in his teens, and formed a drag troupe, the Powder Box Revue. He began performing in New Orleans nightclubs, specifically the Dew Drop Inn and the Club Tijuana in the mid-1950s. He made his first recording, "Have Mercy", produced by Cosimo Matassa for Aladdin Records, in 1954. He then recorded for the Dot and Ace labels, with Ace boss Johnny Vincent apparently offering him a contract under the misapprehension that Marchan was female and releasing his record "Give a Helping Hand" under the pseudonym Bobby Fields.
Julian Eltinge (May 14, 1881 - March 7, 1941), born William Julian Dalton, was an American stage and film actor and female impersonator. After appearing in the Boston Cadets Revue at the age of ten in feminine garb, Eltinge garnered notice from other producers and made his first appearance on Broadway in 1904. As his star began to rise, he appeared in vaudeville and toured Europe and the United States, even giving a command performance before King Edward VII. Eltinge appeared in a series of musical comedies written specifically for his talents starting in 1910 with The Fascinating Widow, returning to vaudeville in 1918.
173 After his father died, he moved to New Orleans with his mother, and became fascinated by the local female impersonators. By the mid-1940s, he was working as a female impersonator in New Orleans clubs. He gave himself the name Vidalia for the type of onion, which according to Cosimo Matassa was also used as a slang term for a man who used prostitutes,Jeff Hannusch, The Soul of New Orleans: a legacy of rhythm and blues, pp.135-138, at QueerMusicalHeritage.com. Retrieved 14 September 2015 and worked with others as one of the Valdalia Sisters.
Despite the huge success of Supermodel of the World, Foxy Lady failed to chart on the Billboard 200 despite reaching #15 on the Billboard Heatseakers chart and producing two mildly successful singles. Its first single "Snapshot" reached #95 on the Billboard Hot 100, #4 on the Billboard Dance Music/Club Play Singles, and #10 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music. The next single "A Little Bit of Love" reached #28 on the Billboard Dance Music/Club Play Singles. The single's music video depicted RuPaul along with female impersonator Jazzmun and transgender cabaret performer Candis Cayne as aliens out to conquer the world.
The New York Times gave the play a mostly positive review, describing it as amusing and complimenting Eltinge's skill as a female impersonator, but criticizing "exceedingly bad acting" by two other members of the cast. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle praised Eltinge, Corthell and the rest of the cast for "a really good farce", although the reviewer said it was not really a musical since there were only three songs. The Theatre magazine complimented Eltinge for incorporating his female impersonation into a meaningful plot that justified it, calling the result "exceedingly diverting". Life magazine allowed only that the play was not "entirely bad".
Five appeared as Gloria Estefan, each representing a different stage in Estefan's career. Some notable video cast members include female impersonator Julian Viva, Hollywood Super Club Kids, The Fabulous Wonder Twins, and drag performers Venus D-Lite and Sutan Amrull aka Raja. The latter two later appeared in season 3 of Logo's series RuPaul's Drag Race, in which Sutan Amrull was crowned the winner. Cyndi Lauper has insinuated that the idea of featuring drag performers in the clip was inspired by her own video "Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)" released a few months earlier.
In the United States, early examples of drag clothing can be found in gold rush saloons of California. The Barbary Coast district of San Francisco was known for certain saloons, such as Dash, which attracted female impersonator patrons and workers. William Dorsey Swann was the first person to call himself "queen of drag." He was a former slave, who was freed after the American Civil War, from Maryland. By the 1880s, he was organizing and hosting drag balls in Washington, D.C.. The balls included folk dances, such as the cakewalk, and the male guests often dressed in female clothing.
Retrieved 6 May 2020 Although the extent of his involvement on sessions in the late 1920s is uncertain, he certainly played with Wade on sessions with singers Victoria Spivey and Perry Bradford, and in 1928 with cornettist Punch Miller and pianist Alex Hill. The following year, he played on sessions with female impersonator Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon. In the mid-1930s he led his own Hot Four quartet, which comprised guitarist Big Bill Broonzy, steel guitarist Casey Bill Weldon, pianist Black Bob Hudson, and bass player Bill Settles. They were sometimes credited as King Mutt and His Tennessee Thumpers.
Would-be theatrical producer Jim Walton (Elwood Smith) is planning a new show that will feature bandleader Slam Stewart and the comic female impersonator Bumpsie (Tim Moore). Mr. Cummings, the wealthy father of Jim’s girlfriend Cristola, has agreed to finance half of the show if the famous Parisian impresario Madame Deborah will provide the second half of the funding. When word arrives that Madame Deborah’s arrival from France has been delayed, Bumpsie is brought in to keep Mr. Cummings occupied. Mr. Cummings, however, is unaware that Bumpsie is a man in drag and he falls in love with him.
She often pretended to have been born in England. At one point, as a male impersonator, she was working as a duo with female impersonator Bothwell Browne.Vaudeville old & new: an encyclopedia of variety performances in ..., Volume 1 By Frank Cullen, Florence Hackman, Donald McNeilly, page 150 Clifford debuted on Broadway in 1902 as a member of the chorus in Tommy Rot. Her other Broadway credits included A Pair of Queens (1916), A Winsome Widow (1912), A Night with the Pierrots / Sesostra / The Whirl of Society (1912), The Belle of London Town, and Fad and Folly (1902).
According to Pierce's longtime stage manager and dresser Kirk Frederick in his 2016 authorized Pierce biography, Davis was unimpressed with Pierce's portrayal and refused to go backstage after the show to greet Charles, saying "There is only one female impersonator who does me right, and his name is Arthur Blake." Pierce was never told Davis had attended the show. Shortly after the incident, Pierce was introduced to Davis at a private event through Geraldine Fitzgerald, a mutual friend. Frederick reports that Davis brushed off Pierce with the same reference to Blake but didn't mention attending the show.
A toymaker (Semon) reads L. Frank Baum's book to his granddaughter. In the story the Land of Oz is ruled by Prime Minister Kruel (Josef Swickard), aided by Ambassador Wikked (Otto Lederer), Lady Vishuss (Virginia Pearson), and the Wizard (Charles Murray), a "medicine-show hokum hustler". When the discontented people, led by Prince Kynd (Bryant Washburn), demand the return of the princess, who disappeared while a baby many years before, so she can be crowned their rightful ruler, Kruel has the Wizard distract them with a parlor trick: making a female impersonator (Frederick Ko Vert) appear out of a seemingly empty basket. Kruel sends Wikked on a mission.
Schmid did not fit in with the Nazi ideal of the Aryan male but enlisted in the Wehrmacht in 1941 and was posted to Udine, Italy until sent home due to typhoid fever. At the end of the war, Schmid fled to Munich where she began a career as a female impersonator. She rapidly gained fame for her talent, bawdy material, and slinky outfits. The Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and his wife Queen Soraya, saw Schmid perform in Hamburg and invited her to Tehran, but Schmid's material and dress were considered inappropriate by many in Iran, and she was forced to devise a new routine.
During times when he was not being cast in additional plays, Jones served as an assistant stage manager, a position that afforded him many opportunities to observe and study closely the speech patterns, mannerisms, and costume choices of a variety of actresses."T.C. Jones, 50, Impersonator of Famous Actresses, Is Dead", The New York Times, September 27, 1971, p. 38. ProQuest. Soon he began imitating those performers and impressing his theatre colleagues with his talent for mimicry, so much so that they encouraged him to display those abilities to audiences. By 1946 Jones began working professionally in New York as a female impersonator, first with the Provincetown Players in Greenwich Village.
At times he dressed in drag and performed as a female impersonator under the name Simone, first in civilian life and then while stationed in West Germany where he performed at shows sponsored by the Army. His success led to engagements at enlisted men's clubs on other U.S. bases in Europe. At one point in 1972 military investigators considered removing him from the service on account of his sexual orientation but ended their investigation with the conclusion that his own admissions were insufficient and closed their investigation when Watkins would not provide the names of any others. Other assignments took him to Korea and then to Italy.
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a 1994 Australian comedy- drama film written and directed by Stephan Elliott. The plot follows two drag queens played by Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce and a transgender woman, played by Terence Stamp, as they journey across the Australian Outback from Sydney to Alice Springs in a tour bus that they have named "Priscilla", along the way encountering various groups and individuals. The film's title references the slang term "queen" for a drag queen or female impersonator. The film was a surprise worldwide hit and its positive portrayal of LGBT individuals helped to introduce LGBT themes to a mainstream audience.
Hickey also wrote songs for other artists, including "The Millionaire" for Jackie Wilson, "A Little Bird Told Me So" for LaVern Baker, and "Don't Let the Rain Come Down", which was a US top ten hit for the Serendipity Singers. Hickey's contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. In 1957 Hickey was staying with his aunt in Buffalo, New York when he arranged to have publicity pictures taken at a local photography studio, Gene Laverne's Studio of the Stars. The pose—Hickey with his knees bent and pointing his guitar like a machine gun—was the idea of Laverne, an exotic dancer and female impersonator.
In a set of photographs published in a Playboy pictorial (titled The Nudest Jayne Mansfield), Mansfield stares at her breast, as does T. C. Jones (Babbette, a female impersonator hair stylist), then grasps it in her hand and lifts it high. The publicity and advanced blurbs on Playboy put Mansfield's name out as a major box office draw, though reviews of the film were next to disastrous. However, most of the offers that she received were largely of similar skin flicks. The film was heavily publicized in the July 1963 issue of Playboy, and led to an obscenity charge against Hugh Hefner, the publisher.
Despite what you're seeing, inside he's feeling, "It's my happy heart," and singing loud as he can.'" The female impersonator Holly Woodlawn lip-synced to the Clark version in the 1998 Tommy O'Haver film Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss. The soundtrack CD included the Clark recording as well as a new remix of the song. In the August 8, 1998, issue of Billboard, Dance Trax columnist Larry Flick wrote, "Speaking of revamping oldies, Junior Vasquez has done a fine job of tweaking Petula Clark's 'Happy Heart' into a thumpy house anthem" and added that "the track benefits tremendously from a rare peek into Vasquez's festive sense of humor.
38 His theme song was "Hip Shakin' Mama", first recorded by Chubby Newsom. His only recordings, "Rock Me Baby" and "Put Your Hand Over My Heart", made for Mercury Records in Los Angeles in 1953 with saxophonist Plas Johnson, were not successful. However, he was described as "one of the most colorful entertainers in New Orleans for two decades... a wild, over-the-top gay man, who expressed that gayness as a cross-dressing female impersonator... Patsy was not a great singer, but more than made up for it with his showmanship." His performances were an influence on Little Richard, who saw him many times, and other performers including Irma Thomas.
Herbert Charles Pollitt (July 20, 1871 - 1942), also known as Jerome Pollitt, was a patron of the arts and on-stage female impersonator who performed as Diane de Rougy (a homage to Liane de Pougy). He became notorious as an Cambridge undergraduate due to his taste for Decadent art and literature, and was immortalised as the eponymous hero of an E.F. Benson novel in 1896. He became a very close friend of the artist Aubrey Beardsley, and had a brief but significant relationship with the occultist Aleister Crowley. Following his time at Cambridge, Pollitt moved to London and saw service in the First World War as a lance-corporal.
By the 1880s the minstrel show had been replaced by Vaudeville and American Burlesque. By around 1905, more than 20 years before Jimmie Rodgers introduced his blue yodel, African Americans were touring the country singing and yodeling. The most noted yodelers of that time were Monroe Tabor ("The Yodeling Bellboy" - though he was not a bellboy), Beulah Henderson (who appeared in black face), and Charles Anderson (who played a singing "mammy" and a female impersonator in several of his acts). Tabor performed with the Dandy Dixie Minstrels. In New York in 1908, a 'well-known critic' reported: > Monroe Tabor sang "A Tear, a Kiss, a Smile".
In 1982, at the age of 12, Arquette's first acting gig was as "this little kid who's on a ride with all these women and whatnot" in the music video "She's a Beauty" by The Tubes. In 1986, Arquette debuted on the big screen in an uncredited role as Alexis, the androgynous friend and bandmate of sexually ambivalent teenager Max Whiteman (Evan Richards) in Down and Out in Beverly Hills. Arquette, in the earlier years of her career, primarily performed as a female impersonator, frequently under the name "Eva Destruction". Later in her career, she made public that she had begun the process leading to sex reassignment surgery.
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. and a crew of three-- photographers Harry Sharp and Chuck Lewis and co-director Victor Fleming-- journey around the world and report on various cultural curiosities and the humor they find in everyday life overseas. Beginning with Japan, Fairbanks focuses on the people and observes a Japanese woman demonstrating how her maids assemble her headdress. Fairbanks and his crew then travel to China, where they are greeted by one of China's greatest actors, female impersonator Mei Lanfang. Further travels take them to the walls of the Forbidden City in Peking, the tomb of Dr. Sun Yat-sen and the city of Hong Kong.
The song was covered by Little Richard, and then reworked in 1971 by British glam rock band Slade as "Get Down and Get with It", giving the band their first chart hit. After moving to Cameo-Parkway Records he had some success with "There's Something About You, Baby", and then his second solo R&B; chart hit in 1966 with "Shake Your Tambourine." However, later records on various labels, including Ace, were unsuccessful, and by the early 1970s Marchan had returned to club work in New Orleans as a female impersonator and MC. He regularly performed at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. He also set up his own production company, Manicure Productions, in the 1980s.
Julian Eltinge as a female impersonator in the Fascinating Widow, early 1910s The broad comedic stylings of the minstrel shows helped develop the vaudeville shows of the late 1800s to the early 1900s. With this shift, the "wench players" became "prima donnas", and became more elegant and refined, while still retaining their comedic elements. While the "wenches" were purely American creations, the "prima donnas" were inspired by both America and European cross-dressing shows, like Shakespearean actors and castrati. With the United States shifting demographics, including the shift from farms to cities, Great Migration of African Americans, and an influx of immigrants, vaudeville's broad comedy and music expanded the audience from minstrelsy.
Buckley recorded the song "When There's No One" for her 1993 album Children Will Listen (the song also appeared on her 1999 album Betty Buckley's Broadway), and Hateley released the title song on her album Sooner Or Later. In 1999, "Unsuspecting Hearts" was recorded by Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley and released on their album of the same name. Early in the 21st century, playwright Erik Jackson attempted to secure the rights to stage another production of the musical, but his request was denied. Jackson eventually earned the consent of Stephen King to mount a new, officially sanctioned, non-musical production of Carrie, which debuted Off-Broadway in 2006 with female impersonator Sherry Vine in the lead role.
Upon seeing the completed film, they were horrified to learn that they were applauding a game of cards that ended with a suicide, which had been filmed separately. They refused to let Cocteau release the film with their scene included, so Cocteau re-shot it with the famed female impersonator Barbette and some extras.Francis Steegmuller, "An Angel, A Flower, A Bird", The New Yorker, September 27, 1969. The films is not considered to be anti-theocratic in the way of Luis Buñuel's L'Age d'Or, but the film's protagonist does explore such varied topics as magic, archaic art, China, opium and transvestism before dying while playing cards in front of an indifferent audience.
In addition to Cocteau's essay Le Numéro Barbette and his appearance in Le Sang d'un Poete, Barbette also inspired the characterization of "Death" in Cocteau's play Orphée. The book Barbette, collecting Cocteau's essay, the New Yorker profile by Steegmuller, Man Ray's photographs and other material, was published in 1989. Barbette may have been the inspiration for the 1933 German film, Viktor und Viktoria, which features a plot about a woman pretending to be a female impersonator, whose gimmick of removing her wig at the end of her act is "inspired by [Barbette's] signature gesture." Viktor und Viktoria was remade in 1935 (First a Girl), 1957 (Viktor und Viktoria) and 1982 (Victor Victoria, which inspired a 1992 Broadway musical of the same name).
Referring to Margarethe Cammermeyer, who was embraced by movement leaders, Watkins wrote: "we'll go with a [white] woman who led a lie for 56 years before we go with a black man who had to live the struggle nearly every day of his life."Devon Carbado, "Black Rights, Gay Rights, Civil Rights: The Deployment of Race/Sexual Orientation Analogies in the Debates about the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Policy", in Devon Carbado, ed., Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality: A Critical Reader (New York University Press, 1999), available online, accessed May 14, 2013 A 1994 documentary film, Sis: The Perry Watkins Story, recounts his career as a female impersonator. Watkins died on March 17, 1996, at his home in Tacoma, Washington, of complications relating to AIDS.
Will Forte portrays Paul L'astnamé, Jenna's fiancé Mr. Jenna Maroney, formerly known as Paul L'astnamé (Will Forte), is Jenna's boyfriend and later husband. He is a female- impersonator (most often dressed as Jenna) who often refers to himself as a "she-man" or "shman." Paul and Jenna first met when Paul won first place in a Jenna Maroney impersonator contest in which Jenna herself placed fourth (parody of an urban legend about Charlie Chaplin, who allegedly finished fourth in a Charlie Chaplin contest, and of Dolly Parton who has confirmed the same happened to her at a drag-queen contest she entered"Dolly Parton Once Entered a Dolly Look-Alike Contest and Lost — To a Man" by Melanie Aman, Woman's World. Aug 15, 2018.
After locating and shooting the primary hit man, and distracted by Bean's suspicions that his wife is having an affair with the landscaper, they continue their investigation seeking a key witness against Meyers who can explain and corroborate the evidence. In the midst of this, they foil a second hit on Meyers by a backup team, leading to a destructive vehicle and foot pursuit through the city, after which they learn that Meyers is planning to fly to Miami before Monday. Tailing him, they receive word that their witness has been located and a warrant issued for Meyers' arrest. Unbeknownst to them, a woman Red Meyers picked up at a local park is actually a female impersonator looking to rob Meyers.
The film version presented A.B. (the only name she is called) as a much more androgynous character than the Antoinette of the stage play, and satirizes the conventions of the professional or business woman makeover film by absurdly exaggerating its comic changes. Furthermore, when A.B. is alone after her makeover, she returns to using masculine mannerisms. The introductory shot of Joy shows her from behind signing documents and directing employees, creating such a strong mannish impression (possible only in a silent film) that some have described the later feminine transformation as being like that of a female impersonator. Lastly, while much of the comedy comes with the difficulty in which A.B. transforms into the overly exaggerated feminine ideal, the greatest parody is how well it works on the men of the film.
Shannon stood in his heels and considered himself "a stand-up comic in a dress", who enjoyed startling tourists with one-liners at Finocchio's. Shannon appeared in three episodes of the CBS sitcom All in the Family as Beverly LaSalle, a female impersonator: "Archie the Hero" (1975), in which Archie Bunker gives him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, not realizing he is male; "Beverly Rides Again" (1976), in which Archie uses him to play a practical joke on a friend; and "Edith's Crisis of Faith, Part 1" (1977), in which his murder leads Edith Bunker to question her faith in God. The role was noteworthy for its uncommonly respectful and sympathetic treatment of Beverly as a "transvestite". On February 13, 1984 Shannon died of a heart attack at the age of 45 at Mission Emergency Hospital in San Francisco.
The casino measured , and took up the first two floors. It included keno, table games, and a sportsbook. In 1982, a former construction worker won a $4.4 million lawsuit against Karadanis and Maloff after being paralyzed in an accident during construction of the tower four years earlier. A female impersonator show, Burlesque, ran at the Sundowner in the mid-1980s and was considered a success. In 1986, the Sundowner and Karadanis had to pay $1.2 million in punitive damages after being found liable for a theft that occurred in one of the hotel rooms two years earlier, the result of inadequate security. In 1987, hundreds of guests and employees were evacuated when an electrical fire broke out. The fire was contained after an hour, and was confined to concrete electrical transformer rooms, located beneath the hotel buildings.
Together they are able to become the most successful independent stockbrokers in the world while helping a struggling high-tech computer company stay afloat. However, the ruse eventually runs into problems because Cutty is still getting credit for Ayres' great ideas, while competing firms and tabloid journalists are willing to do anything in order to bring the wealthy and elusive Cutty into the public and on their side. Thus Ayres is forced to get her best friend (who works at a nightclub as a female impersonator) to create an effective disguise in the mould of Marlon Brando to try to fool the naysayers; when that fails, she and Dugan decide to kill Cutty only to be charged with his murder. Frank uncovers the ruse and pretends that he is now the front man to world- famous Cutty.
The London performances were representative of the troupe’s broader repertoire—an eclectic mixture of acrobatics, music and monologues, very much in line with the vaudeville performances of the time. The Royal Court Theatre programme highlighted a number of duets between the female impersonator, "Queenie" (played by William Threlfall), and troupe members Arthur Sykes, Alec Hill, and Jock McKinley. The program also included a trick cycling act by Larry Nicol; solo musical performances by Scottish comedian Frank Pollard; and several theatrical sketches and monologues by Neville Giordano. Much of the troupe's musical repertoire included well-known, contemporary compositions such as W.T. Wrighton’s Sing me an English Song, Philip Braham’s We’ll have a Little Cottage (1917), Weatherly and Wood’s Roses of Picardy (1916), Thomas J. Hewitt’s Alone in Love’s Garden (1912), and Davy Burnaby and Gitz Rice's A Conscientious Objector (1917).
Sarandon admitted to initially being "overwhelmed and terrified" about the prospect of portraying Davis accurately. She said, "She's so big and she really was so big, so I tried not to make her a caricature or someone a female impersonator would do ... That was my fear, that she would just be kind of one-dimensional." Lange said her performance was informed by her view that Crawford's "brutal childhood" was masked by the "beautiful, impenetrable veneer of this great, gorgeous movie star ... So she was always on, which is a tremendous burden in and of itself, but always there was this thing lurking underneath of being this poverty-stricken, abused, unloved, abandoned young child and woman." Both Sarandon and Lange researched their roles by reading books by and about Davis and Crawford, and watching and listening to TV performances and recordings.
Liane de Pougy by Paul César Helleu (1908) Pougy, Otero, and Cléo de Mérode appear in a fashionable crowd in the Bois de Boulogne drawn by Guth, 1897 After moving to Paris, from her position at the Folies she became a noted demimondaine, and a rival of "La Belle Otero". She took her last name from one of her paramours, a Comte or Vicomte de Pougy, whilst other lovers included Mathilde de Morny and Émilienne d'Alençon. Actress Sarah Bernhardt, faced with the task of teaching Liane to act, advised her that when she was on stage, it would be best to keep her "pretty mouth shut". Liane became so well known as a performer at the Folies Bergère that the 1890s English female impersonator Herbert Charles Pollitt referenced her in his drag name Diane de Rougy.
It was successful. His performance as Mularaja in Mularaj Solanki (1895) was well received. In the next decade, he acted Ramcharitra (1989), Raman in Lakshadhipati-no Raman, Jayraj (1898) and other plays, as well as becoming involved in stage planning and the management of a theatre company. In 1899, he and Mulani became partners in the company, each holding a 6% share of the Mumbai Gujarati Natak Mandali. He also acted in the acclaimed play, Ajabkumari (1899), opposite female impersonator actor Jaishankar Bhojak 'Sundari' who had recently joined their company. The pair soon rose to fame and acted together in several successful plays including Saubhagya Sundari (Fortunate Sundari, 1901), Vikram Charitra (1901, directed by him), Dage Hasrat (1901), Jugal Jugari (Jugal the Gambler, 1903), Kamlata (1904), Sneh Sarita (1915), Madhubansari (1917). Around the end of the 19th-century, he was guided by Mulshankar and Dayashankar Visanji.
Following the Stonewall riots and the birth of the modern gay rights movement in 1969, gay activists began challenging the way American television episodes with LGBT themes presented homosexuality. With the slowly increasing visibility of LGBT characters on fiction series, a pattern began to emerge, beginning with repressed lesbian sniper Miss Brant from 1961's The Asphalt Jungle and continuing through a murderous female impersonator from The Streets of San Francisco and Police Woman and her trio of killer lesbians in 1974 and beyond, of presenting LGBT characters as psychotic killers on crime dramas. On medical dramas, the disease model of homosexuality was fostered in characters like 1963's Hallie Lambert from The Eleventh Hour and Martin Loring from Marcus Welby, M.D. in 1973. Gays, the viewing public was told over and over, were simultaneously dangerous and sick, to be feared and to be pitied.
" Despite believing that Andrews could have voiced the character well, Bill Beyrer of Cinema Blend felt that Saunders "did a bang up job", but found the character's appearance to be too realistic at times. In a more negative review, the San Francisco Chronicle film critic Mick LaSalle found the character too distracting from Shrek and Fiona's storyline, continuing, "The filmmakers invest too much time and faith in the idea of the fairy godmother as being wickedly amusing, but she's no Cruella De Vil, and the movie suffers." However, LaSalle enjoyed Fairy Godmother's performance of "Holding Out for a Hero" nonetheless. Michael Sragow, film critic for The Baltimore Sun, wrote that "Not even ... Saunders can add zing to the script's rough sketch of a sorceress", dismissing her as "a female impersonator caught in a female body, promoting specialties that are the fairy-tale equivalents of super-extreme makeovers.
This evolution changed drag in the last decades of the 20th century. Among contemporary drag performers, the theatrical drag queen or street queen may at times be seen less as a "female impersonator" per se, but simply as a drag queen, and the role of the queen existing as an identity based in neither mainstream male nor mainstream female conventions. Examples include The Cockettes, Danny La Rue or RuPaul. In the 1890s the slapstick drag traditions of undergraduate productions (notably Hasty Pudding Theatricals at Harvard College, annually since 1891 and at other Ivy League schools like Princeton University's Triangle Club or the University of Pennsylvania's Mask and Wig Club) were permissible fare to the same middle- class American audiences that were scandalized to hear that in New York City, rouged young men in skirts were standing on tables to dance the can-can in Bowery dives like The Slide.
Fashion designer Mitzi, a long-time friend, credits Garcia with helping him during his time of need and aiding to start his design empire. She was a beloved public personality in Mexican showbiz and appeared in several movies, telenovelas, variety shows and broadcasts of her theater comedy shows, most notable was her stage persona as a female impersonator during a time when Mexican society was very close-minded and homosexuality was considered a minor crime, she was the first openly gay celebrity in the country and a passionate activist for equality and human and gay rights till her death. During her lifetime she was relentlessly questioned if she ever wanted to surgically become a woman, which she vehemently denied quoting religious beliefs and jokingly expressing that in today's society, she'd rather get surgery to make his penis bigger, as women are more popular with "something extra" down there... She never had feminisation surgeries, she did however have rhinoplasty to help her achieve her famed Lupita D'Alessio characterization which was highly acclaimed.
In 1951, she starred in musical pictures that included El patio de la morocha, also known as Arriba el telón, a film based on a tango of Mariano Mores and Cátulo Castillo, who also wrote the screenplay. In this decade, she acted in France, Italy and Brazil, performing tangos and participating in music-hall performances. Also she developed a big theatrical career, in works like Two hearts (1944) at the Theatre President Alvear, The history of farce (1946) with Malvina Pastorino, The Other I of Marcela (1962) in the El National theatre, Lights of Buenos Aires (1969), of Hugo of the Lane, Promises, promises (1972), in the Theatre Odeon, The true history of Salomé (1972), in the Teatro General San Martín, The neighbours of Corrientes(1974), a musical revue starring the Argentinian female impersonator Jorge Perez Evelyn and the comedian Pablo Palitos, Chicago (1977), where she played Mum Morton in at the El National, with Àmbar the Fox, Nélida Lobato and Juan Carlos Thorry, Violated and abandoned (1981), in the Theatre Maipo, Annie (1982), in the Theatre Buenos Aires, among others. In 1962 she played a Dancer in Different, favoured by Àguila Films.
Between the 30s and the 60s, Ray Bourbon was one of the most well-known female impersonators, in 1956 Ray changed his name to Rae Bourbon and released and album titled "Let Me Tell You About My Operation", in response to Christine Jorgensen's famous sex change which had been dominating the news. In the early 1960s Camp Records released two albums which featured artists like Sandy Beech, Max Minty & the Gay Blades, and a song by Byrd E Bath called "Homer the Happy Little Homo". In response to this album, Teddy & Darrel released an LP called "These Are the Hits, You Silly Savages" with the hope that they could use the sale records to track down homosexuals, however, they were unable to do so because the sales were so spread out and diverse. In 1963 Jackie Shane released his song "Any Other Way" with the lyrics "tell her that I'm happy, tell her that I'm gay, tell her that I wouldn't have it, any other way" which reached #2 on the Canadian charts and in 1968 Minette was the first female impersonator to release an entire album which dealt with subjects such as the hippie movement, psychedelic drugs and Vietnam.

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