Showing posts with label gender illusionist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gender illusionist. Show all posts

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!

Practice, Practice, Practice

  Image from Mor Shani on UnSplash.  Sometimes I wonder if some people don’t take the time to understand how much practice I needed to do as...