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Glen or Glenda (1953)

In his heart-felt cinematic debut, Edward D. Wood, Jr. himself stars under the pseudonym Daniel Davis as a young man with a dilemma: should he tell his lovely young fiancee (played by real-life girlfriend Dolores Fuller) about his burning desire to cross-dress? She has begun to notice articles of clothing missing from her closet; the suspense builds...what should he do? Bela Lugosi plays the omniscient narrator; note his conviction as he pulls the strings. Amidst this unintentionally hilarious mish-mash of melodrama, social commentary and inexplicable stock footage, there is something for every taste: countless cross dressers, hallucinatory dream sequences, sex-change surgeries, spirited cat fights, borderline-pornographic simulated sex scenes, poetic monologues, a haunted house, and a stampede of wild buffalo. Released under various titles across the country -- I Lived Two Lives, I Changed My Sex -- this fiasco bombed across the board but managed to gain Wood enough notoriety in the B-movie world to launch a career that is today the stuff of legend. Hailed by most critics as the worst film of all time, Wood nearly matched his first effort with such atrocities as Bride of the Monster, Night of the Ghouls, the infamous Plan 9 from Outer Space, and, perhaps the world's first topless horror film, Orgy of the Dead. Although few may count Wood among the best American cinema has to offer, Glen or Glenda certainly places him among its most memorable.~ Jeremy Beday, All Movie Guide


GENRE: Drama
MPAA RATING: No Rating
RUN TIME: 65 minutes
RELEASE DATE: January 1, 1953
STARRING: Bela Lugosi , Lyle Talbot , Timothy Farrell , Dolores Fuller , Daniel Davis
DIRECTOR(S): Edward D. Wood Jr.
PRODUCER(S): George Weiss
WRITER(S): Edward D. Wood Jr.
STUDIO: Screen Classics Inc.
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