Daily Dialogue — October 18, 2015

“Just how does one go introducing your friends to your brother when Brother’s wearing your best sweater, your skirt, and makeup to boot?”

— Glen or Glenda (1953), written by Ed Wood

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Cross Dressing.

Trivia: The film includes almost 14 minutes of stock footage, including the end credits, and 73 seconds that run concurrently with new footage of Bela Lugosi. The stock scenes include “Fake Lightning” (used 6 times), “Pedestrians” (3 times), “Highway Day” (3 times), “Highway Night” (twice), “Playground” (twice), “Superior Court” (twice), “Ridiculous Soft Core”, “Natives”, “Bison Stampede”, “Parking Lot”, “Steel Foundry”, “WWII”, “Ambulance”, “Airplane”, “Signalman”, “Milkman”, and “Girls with Fuzzy Hats or Sweaters.”

Dialogue On Dialogue: The side above posits a central theme in the cult classic. The movie’s narrator is of this opinion: “Give this man satin undies, a dress, a sweater and a skirt, or even the lounging outfit he has on, and he’s the happiest individual in the world. He can work better, think better, he can play better, and he can be more of a credit to his community and his government because he is happy.”