Glen or Glenda is a 1953 exploitation film written, directed by and starring Ed Wood, and featuring Bela Lugosi, and Wood's then-girlfriend Dolores Fuller. The movie is a docudrama about cross-dressing and transsexuality, and is semi-autobiographical in nature. Wood himself was a crossdresser, and the movie is a plea for tolerance. However, it has become a cult film due to its low-budget production values and idiosyncratic style.
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Glen or Glenda is a 1953 exploitation film written, directed by and starring Ed Wood, and featuring Bela Lugosi, and Wood's then-girlfriend Dolores Fuller. The movie is a docudrama about cross-dressing and transsexuality, and is semi-autobiographical in nature. Wood himself was a crossdresser, and the movie is a plea for tolerance. However, it has become a cult film due to its low-budget production values and idiosyncratic style.
The sex reassignment surgery of Christine Jorgensen made national headlines in the U.S. in 1952, and this was the inspiration for George Weiss, a Hollywood producer of low-budget films, to commission a movie to exploit it. Wood persuaded Weiss that his own transvestism made him the perfect director despite his modest resume. Wood was given the job and took the money, but instead made a movie about transvestism. When the finished movie was deemed too short and too divergent from what was requested, Wood tacked on a few extra scenes about sexual reassignment....
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