Showing posts with label Julian Eltinge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Julian Eltinge. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Before My Time!

I found this incredibly clear video on YouTube of famed female impersonator Julian Eltinge from 1929:

Enjoy!


Thursday, June 21, 2012

Classic Female Impersonation History

Ephemeral recently ran a post featuring famous cross dressers.
The post featured one of the all time popular female impersonators and dare I say actresses of his era Julian Eltinge.
Here's an excerpt:
"All but forgotten today, Julian Eltinge was one of the highest paid actors in the early 1900s.
His shtick: He played all his roles in drag.
But unlike most drag queens, who present a caricature of a woman, Eltinge was a “gender illusionist” pretending, with a wink, to actually be a woman." and of course you can go here for more!

Set Her Free

Image from JJ Hart Throughout my long life, which included fifty years of being a cross dresser, I could feel the stress and tension of not ...