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Glen or Glenda?
film by Wood [1953]
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- In Ed Wood: Glen or Glenda, Bride of the Monster, and Plan 9 from Outer Space
…first feature film Wood directed, Glen or Glenda, was inspired by the story of Christine Jorgensen, the first American to undergo a successful gender-affirming surgery, and Wood starred as the cross-dressing title character. Wood had befriended Bela Lugosi, one of his childhood idols, who by then was struggling to find…
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Lugosi
- In Bela Lugosi
…such staggeringly shoddy efforts as Glen or Glenda? (1953), Bride of the Monster (1956), and Plan 9 from Outer Space (filmed 1956, released 1959), all now unintentionally hilarious cult favourites. Lugosi was buried, as he wished, wearing the long black cape that he had worn in Dracula.
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