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Originally Posted by h8kurdt

Nah man, a female crossdressing to a male was nowhere near as controversial as the other way round. Hence why you can find the examples of Dietrich doing it in that period and not guys.

sure

 

but...

 

 

 

theatre used to be a bunch of men in drag and that never completely went away

eta: i was looking for some photographic evidence (e.g. encyclopaedia britannica shows a picture of laurence olivier age 15 dressed as katharine for the taming of the shrew) and found this link among others. some cool stuff:
https://www.littlethings.com/vintage-drag/?vpage=1

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i think it was the production code which ruled the 40s and 50s that caused the temporary glitch in gender adventures but demonyo is the one who knows this stuff in depth. plus i dont know how if at all that affected the british film industry.

eta: now im reading about the motherfucking production code.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion...roduction_Code

i fucking hate censors. and well played, hitchcock, well played...