my queer cinema: lgbtq films coded and explicit 1887-1939
■film discussed
■film discussed in an earlier or
later context
my queer cinema: a prelude
by Douglas Messerli
kisses and poses
Eadweard Muybridge The Kiss /
1887
muybridge male nudes
Eadweard
Muybridge “various male athletes” / 1887
Andrew Toovey Dutch Dykes (with Eadweard Muybridge moving video)
/ 2002
dancing princes
William Kennedy Dickson (The Dickson Experimental Sound Film /
1894 or 1895
two méliès kinographs
Georges
Méliès Le méprise / 1896-1901 Flipbook #17
Georges Méliès L’amant supris 1896-1901
/ Flipbook #23
hamlet’s duel
Clément
Maurice Le Duel d'Hamlet / 1900
dancing women: two films by alice guy
Alice Guy (Blaché) Au bal de
Flore (At the Floral Ball) / 1900
Alice Guy (Blaché)
(Le depart d’Arlequin et de Pierrette (Le Fredaines de
Pierrette) (Pierrette’s
Escapades) / 1900
pick of the litter
Alice Guy (Blaché) Sage femme de première Classe (Midwife to
the Upper Class) / 1901
two old maids
Edwin S. Porter and George S. Fleming The
Old Maid Having Her Picture Taken / 1901
Edwin S. Porter The Old Maid in Her
Drawing Room / 1901
what the porter saw
Ferdinand
Zecca Par le trou de la serrure (What Is Seen Through a Keyhole)
/ 1901
french kiss
Sigmund
Lubin Meet Me at the Fountain / 1904
carrying the gag to its limits
Alice
Guy Blaché and Romeo Bosetti Le Matela alcolique a.k.a Le
matelas pileptique (The Drunken Mattress) / 1906
seeing love from both sides now
Alice Guy Blaché Les
résultats du féminisme (The Consequences of Feminism) / 1906
hot sex
Georges
Méliès Eclipse de Soleil en pleine Lune (Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun
and Moon / 1907
an early model
Otis Turner Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde),
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / 1908 || Lost Film (see queer
street, 1920)
two for one
Narren-Grappen (Jester’s Joke) /
1908
how to get ahead
Alf
Collins How Percy Won the Beauty Competition / 1909
the
trophy
J.
Stuart Blackton Oliver Twist /
1909
the boston glide
Walfrid
Bergström Skilda tiders danser (Dances Through the Ages) /
1909
the long and short of it
Adrien Barrère Tom Pouce suit une femme (Tom Thumb in Love) a.k.a. Mary Long and Tommy Short / 1910
girls
gone wild
Lewin Fitzhamon Tilly
the Tomboy Visits the Poor / 1910
who
and what you will
Eugene Mullin and
Charles Kent Twelfth Night / 1910
hidden
pictures
the picture of dorian gray
Axel Strøm Dorian Grays Portræt (The Picture of Dorian Gray) / 1910
| Lost Film
the picture of dorian gray
Phillips Smalley The Picture of Dorian Gray / 1913 |
Lost Film
the picture of dorian gray
Vsevolod Meyerhold and
Mikhail Doronin Portret Doryana Greya (The Picture of
Dorian Gray) / 1915 |Lost film
the
sympathetic decadent
Richard
Oswald Das bildnis des Dorian Gray (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
/ 1917 |Lost Film
lugosi as
a wit?
Alfréd
Deésy Az Élet királya (King of Life) / 1918 | Lost Film
disconsolate billy
William Haddock Billy and His Pal / 1911
cowboy pranks
Frederick
A. Thomson Kitty and the Cowboys / 1911
the king of cooney island
Queen
for a Day / 1911 | Difficult to Obtain,
possibly Lost
behind the veil
Francis
Boggs ? The Pasha’s Daughter / 1911
under the influence of a comet
Alice
Guy Blaché Cupid and the Comet / 1911
both
sides of the bed
Marcel Perez La signorina
Robinet / 1912 (see both sides
of the bed, 1919)
drugs destroy doctor
Lucius Henderson (director) Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde / 1912 (see queer
street, 1920)
conversion therapy
Harry Schenck, Edward Warren, and Alice Guy
Blaché) Algie the Miner / 1912
please sir, i want some more
Al
Christie Making a Man of Her / 1912
disguised doubles
Alice
Guy Blaché His Double / 1912
Alice Guy Blaché Cousins of Sherlocko
/ 1913
Alice Guy Blaché What Happened to
Officer Henderson (a. k. a. Officer Henderson / 1913
the
picture of dorian gray
Phillips Smalley The Picture of Dorian Gray
/ 1913 | Lost Film (see hidden
pictures, 1910)
conflicted
selves
Paul Wegener and Stellan
Rye (directors) Der Student von Prag (The Student of Prague) /
1913
no
wedding bells
Wilfrid
North Bunny’s Dilemma / 1913
the
cure
Wilfrid North Bunny’s
Honeymoon / 1913 | Difficult to Obtain or Lost Film
the young boy willing to kiss a woman in order to keep
his man
Urban
Gad Jugend und Tollheit (Lady Madcap’s Way) / 1913 | Lost Film
the seed
Sidney Drew A Florida Enchantment
/ 1914
pretend to shoot and stab me quick before you kiss!
Urban
Gad Zapatas Bande (Zapata’s Gang) / 1914
he ain’t heavy, he’s my sister
Mabel
Normand Mabel’s Blunder / 1914
entering the forbidden domain
Wilfrid
North Lillian’s Dilemma / 1914 | Difficult to Find or
Lost Film
chaplin in drag
Mack
Sennett A Busy Day (a. k. a. The Militant Suffragette) /
1914
Charles Chaplin The Masquerader /
1914
Charles Chaplin A Woman / 1915
the
sweedie comedies: 29 short silent films
Sweedie the Swatter / 1914 | Lost Film
or Unavailable
Sweedie and the Lord / 1914 | Lost
Film or Unavailable
Topsy-Turvy Sweedie / 1914 |Lost
Film or Unavailable
Sweedie and the Double Exposure / 1914 | Lost Film or Unavailable
Sweedie Springs a Surprise / 1914 | Lost
Film or Unavailable
Sweedie’s Skate / 1914 | Lost
Film or Unavailable
Sweedie’s Clean-Up / 1914 | Lost
Film or Unavailable
Golf Champion ‘Chick’ Evans Links with
Sweedie
/ 1914 | Lost Film or Unavailable
The Fickleness of Sweedie / 1914 | Lost
Film or Unavailable
Sweedie Learns to Swim / 1914
She Landed a Big One (aka She
Landed a Lord) / 1914 | Lost Film or Unavailable
Sweedie the Laundress / 1914
Sweedie the Trouble Maker / 1914 | Lost
Film or Unavailable
Countess Sweedie / 1914 | Lost
Film or Unavailable
Sweedie at the Fair / 1914 | Lost
Film or Unavailable
A Maid of War / 1914 | Lost
Film or Unavailable
Sweedie and the Hypnotist / 1914 | Lost
Film or Unavailable
Sweedie Collects for Charity / 1914 | Lost
Film or Unavailable
Sweedie and the Sultan’s Present / 1915 | Lost
Film or Unavailable
Sweedie’s Suicide / 1915 | Lost
Film or Unavailable
Sweedie and Her Dog / 1915 | Lost
Film or Unavailable
The New Teacher / 1915 | Lost
Film or Unavailable
Sweedie Goes to College / 1915 |Lost
Film or Unavailable
Sweedie’s Hopeless Love / 1915 |Lost
Film or Unavailable
Sweedie Learns to Ride / 1915 | Lost
Film or Unavailable
Sweedie in Vaudeville / 1915 | Lost
Film or Unavailable
Sweedie’s Hero / 1915 | Lost Film or Unavailable
Sweedie’s Finish / 1915 | Lost
Film or Unavailable
Wallace Beery Sweedie, the Janitor
/ 1916 | Lost Film or unavailable
the
picture of dorian gray
Vsevolod Meyerhold and
Mikhail Doronin Portret Doryana Greya (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
/ 1915 | Lost Film (see hidden pictures, 1910)
the beached wail
Roscoe
“Fatty” Arbuckle Miss Fatty’s Seaside Lovers / 1915
exploring
identity
Mario Roncoroni (Filibus (Filibus: The
Mysterious Air Pirate) / 1915
the son who saved her father
Wilfrid
North Hearts and the Highway / 1915 | Lost Film
a frozen icarus
Mauritz Stiller / Vingarne
(The Wings) / 1916
going off track
Clarence
G. Badger The Danger Girl / 1916
slinging forbidden love along with
the pies
Charles
Chaplin Behind the Screen / 1916
merrily
rolling along
Charles Chaplin The Rink / 1916
the sympathetic decadent
Richard Oswald Das bildnis des Dorian Gray (The Picture of Dorian Gray) / 1917 | Lost Film (see hidden pictures, 1910)
boys will be girls
Joseph
Kaufman The Amazons / 1917 | Lost Film
a smile and a wink
Harold
Lloyd and Gilbert Pratt Pinched / 1917
the proper way to marry a girl
Roscoe
“Fatty” Arbuckle The Butcher Boy / 1917
resolve
Roscoe
“Fatty” Arbuckle Coney Island / 1917
robbery she said
Donald
Crisp The Clever Mrs. Carfax / 1917 | Lost Film
the thief who got away
Gardner
Hunting (screenplay, based on a story by Gelett Burgess and Carolyn Wells),
Donald
Crisp (director) The Countess Charming
/ 1917 | Lost Film
lugosi as a wit?
Alfréd Deésy Az Élet királya (King
of Life) / 1918 | Lost Film
(see hidden
pictures, 1910)
without bounds
Ernst Lubitsch Ich möchte kein Mann sein (I Don’t Want to Be a Man)
/ 1918
impulsive
giving
Elsie Jane Wilson The Dream Lady / 1918
the best man
Walter
Graham (screenwriter), Al Christie Know Thy Wife / 1918
cross-dressing heaven
Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle Good Night, Nurse! / 1918
calender
girl
William
C. de Mille The Widow’s Might /
1918 | Difficult to Obtain
justice through knowledge
Richard
Oswald Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others) / 1919
Marcel Perez La signorina Robinet /
1912
Marcel Perez Chickens in Turkey / 1919
professional amateurs
Roscoe
“Fatty” Arbuckle Back Stage / 1919
all dressed for
the wedding
Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle (director) Love / 1919
the pillow
Hal
Roach Ask Father / 1919
a safe place
Hal Roach Bumping into Broadway / 1919
the flower girl’s loves
Edward
F. Cline Hearts and Flowers / 1919
beyond the call of duty
F.
Richard Jones Yankee Doodle in Berlin / 1919
no secret love
Al
Christie Rowdy Ann / 1919
the broken
torso
Ernst Lubitsch Die Puppe (The
Doll) / 1919
a
great big beautiful doll
Robert
Wiene Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
(The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) / 1920
reformation:
the soul of youth and the death of its director
William Desmond Taylor The Soul of Youth / 1920
queering up the opera
Bernard Natan Le Ménage moderne du Madame
Butterfly / 1920
return to sender
Marcel
L'Herbier L'Homme du large (The Man of The Sea) / 1920
queer street: the even stranger case of dr. jekyll and
mr. hyde’s cinematic adaptations
Otis Turner Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Otis / 1908 | Lost Film
drugs destroy doctor
Lucius Henderson Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
/ 1912
henry jekyll meets dorian gray
John S. Robertson Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde / 1920
residual echoes
Rouben
Mamoulian Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / 1931
the end of the
rainbow
Victor Fleming Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
/ 1941
seven cartoon
jekylls in six to seven-minute waltzes
Norman McCabe The Impatient
Patient / 1942
Mannie Davis Mighty
Mouse Meets Jekyll and Cat Hyde / 1944
Joseph Barbara and William Hanna Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Mouse / 1947
Friz Freleng Dr. Jerkyl’s Hide /
1954
Friz
Freleng Hyde and Hare / 1955
Friz
Freleng Hyde and Go Tweet / 1959
Chuck
Jones and Maurice Noble Is There a Doctor in the Mouse? / 1964
Allen Reisner Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / 1955
queer by definition
Jean Renoir Le
Testament du docteur Cordelier (The Doctor’s Horrible Experiment)
/ 1959
this
perfect eden
Terence Fisher The Two Faces of
Dr. Jekyll / 1960
entering a
strange land without a destination
Roy
Ward Baker Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde / 1971
hyde’s son
David
Wickes Jekyll and Hyde / 1990
hamlet, the transgender hero
Sven Gade and Heinz Schall Hamlet /
1921
between here and there
Fred. J. Balshofer (director) The Isle of
Love / 1921
the narcissi
Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline The Play House /
1921
soil
of the damned
F.
W. Murnau Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu: A
Symphony of Horror) / 1922
the
man that got her way: marion davies in the 1920s
the boy’s second husband
William LeBaron Robert G. Vignola When
Knighthood Was in Flower / 1922
irish
blarney goes dutch treat
Sidney
Olcott Little Old New York / 1923
the
goat-herder and the king
Unknown
filmmaker Beverly of Graustark / 1914
Sidney Franklin (director) Beverly
of Graustark / 1926
the
amorous adventures of anatol
Robert Z. Leonard Marianne
/ 1929
my closeup, please, mister demille
Charles Bryant Salomé / 1923
the celluloid fairy
Ralph
Ceder The Soilers / 1923
the
bride in the sky
Luiz de Barros Augusto
Anibal Quer Casar (Augusto Anibal Wants to Get Married) /
1923 | Lost Film
lust
for gold
Donald Crisp Panjola / 1923 || Currently unavailable
acquisitions
Carl Theodore Dreyer Mikaël (Michael) /
1924
overlooked talent
Victor
Schertzinger Boy of Flanders / 1924 || Difficult to Obtain
oswald, jean, and teddy
Gilbert
Pratt Grandpa’s Girl / 1924
finding boys: james m. barrie and the boys who lost
the sewn-on shadow
Herbert
Brenon Peter Pan / 1924
Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton
Luske Peter Pan / 1953, animated movie
Clark Jones (director) Peter
Pan / TV musical 1955, 1956 (other versions 1960, 2000)
walkin’ the
plank
Bob Ashford and Glenn Weiss Peter Pan Live! / on NBC, December 4, 2014
what
to do with a drunken sailor: the problem of sergei eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein (director) Бронено́сец
«Потёмкин» Bronenosets Potyomkin (Battleship Potemkin) /
1925 [see discussion of Bezhin Meadow, 1937]
showing up for the showdown
John G. Blystone Dick Turpin /
1925
the thief of love
Louis
J. Gasnier Parisian Love / 1925
cutie and petite
Adrian
Brunel (director) Battling Bruisers: Some Boxing Buffonery / 1925
the innocents
Alfred
Hitchcock The Pleasure Garden / 1925
polyamorous porpoises
Scott
Sidney (director) Madame Behave / 1925
groom without a bride’s
kiss
Buster Keaton Seven Chances / 1925
the prodigal
daughter
Dallas M. Fitzgerald (director) My Lady of Whims /
1925
battling age and gender dysphoria in our gang
Robert F. McGowan Baby Clothes
/ 1926
two
husbands wrestling in a bed
Fred Guiol Along Came
Auntie / 1926
the woman
who stole his pants
Fred Guiol 45 Minutes from Hollywood / 1926
a gentleman
for the night
Karin Swanström
(director) Flickan i frack (The
Girl in Tails) / 1926 Difficult to Obtain
from amazon
to beauty queen
Paul Sloane The
Clinging Vine / 1926
the sky’s the limit—for women
Clyde Cook What’s the World Coming To? /
1926
soul kiss
Sam Taylor For Heaven’s Sake
/ 1926
after the fall
Howard
Hawks Fig Leaves / 1926
the ooze
Alfred E. Green Irene / 1926
without a
clue
Sam Taylor Exit Smiling / 1926
the island
of friendship
Clarence Brown Flesh and the Devil / 1926
a fiddler in his bedroom
Paul
Czinner Der Geiger von Florenz (The Fiddler of Florence)
aka Impetuous Youth / 1926
ritual baths
Lewis Milestone Two
Arabian Knights / 1927
the faith keepers
John Ford Upstream / 1927
obvious obfuscations: queering the straight
Alfred
Hitchcock The Lodger: The Story of the London Fog / 1927
renting
out agnes
Fred Guiol Duck Soup
/ 1927
James Parrott Another Fine Mess /
1930
nobody’s perfect
Fred Guiol Why
Girls Like Sailors / 1927
my son the maid
Leo
McCarey Don’t Tell Everything / 1927
in
heaven
Alfred Schirokauer) Der
Himmel auf Erden (Heaven on Earth) / 1927 || Difficult to
Obtain
out with the boys
R.
E. Williamson and Joseph E. Zivelli A Wanderer of the West / 1927 ||
Difficult to Obtain
on
the lips
Richard Eichberg (director) Der Fürst von Pappenheim (The Masked Mannequin) / 1927 | Difficult to Obtain
crystal clear
John
Francis Dillon The Crystal Cup / 1927 | Lost Film
throwing
him to the rats
Alfred Hitchcock Downhill /
1927
kisses and poses
William A. Wellman Wings / 1927
loving men
Howard Hawks A Girl in Every Port / 1928
it
must be love
William A. Wellman Beggars of Life
/ 1928
dying for change
William
Dieterle Geschlecht in Fesseln (Sex in Chains) / 1928
never safe from ourselves
Alfred Hitchcock Champagne / 1928
washing away the mask
Frank Capra The Matinee Idol /
1928, restored 1997
sleeping around: the secret life of roderick usher
painting
his wife into her grave
Jean Epstein La Chute de la
maison Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher) / 1928
what was
under that cover of the hotplate?
James
Sibley Watson, Jr. and Melville Webber The Fall of the House of Usher
/ 1928
home sweet
home
Curtis Harrington The Fall of
the House of Usher / 1942
Curtis Harrington Usher /
2000 (Criterion lists the date as 2002)
only the
house has any appetite for human flesh
Richard
Corman (director) House of Usher / 1960
outside
the normality of history
Boris Sagal (director) The Fall of
the House of Usher / 1956
a cause of the celebration and its consequences
Jean
Epstein Finis terrae / 1929
getting it on
Leo
McCarey Liberty / 1929
the happy couple
Lloyd
French That’s My Wife / 1929
heterosexual heathens
D.
W. Griffith Lady of the Pavements
/ 1929
funny
that way
Roy
Del Ruth (director) The Desert Song / 1929
music
for dead donkeys
Luis Buñuel Un chien
Andalou / 1929
bread or knife
G. W. Pabst
Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora’s Box) / 1929
the lavender door
Harry
Beaumont The Broadway Melody / 1929
after the flood: airing dirty laundry
Charles
Reisner The Hollywood Revue of 1929 / 1929
a rock in the sea
Dudley Murphy St. Louis Blues / 1929
the
chameleon
“Oscar Wild” The Surprise of a Knight / c.
1929 | Difficult to Obtain
renting
out agnes
James
Parrott (director) Another Fine Mess / 1930 [see renting out agnes, 1927]
behind closed doors
Jean
Cocteau Le Sang d’un poète
(The Blood of a Poet) /
1930
masturbatory
explosion
Man Ray Autoportrait, ou Ce quí manque a nous tous / c.
1930
the white gaze
Kenneth Macpherson Borderline
/ 1930
safe sex
Josef von Sternberg Morocco /
1930
coding
just for fun
David
Butler Just Imagine / 1930
silence, sound, and fury
Alfred
Hitchcock Murder! / 1930
laughing away the blues
Norman Taurog Sunny Skies
/ 1930
the manly
man and the effeminate womanizer
Michael
Curtiz The Matrimonial Bed / 1930
milking the bull
Fred Niblo Way Out West / 1930
manservants, interior decorators, clothes designers, chorus boys, lady wrestlers and other persnickety sissies and female toughs: the last days of hollywood’s cinema sodom 1930-1934
pansy
cowboy
Richard Thorpe The Dude Wrangler
/ 1930 || Lost Film
get out of here!
Arthur Hurley 23-Skidoo! /
1930
poof!
Edmund Golding Reaching for the Moon /
1930
the pleasure of pain
Hamilton MacFadden
(director) Oh, What a Man! / 1930
in the dark
Roy
Del Ruth The Life of the Party / 1930
happier
days
Charles Reisner Chasing
Rainbows / 1930
Lloyd Bacon Fifty Million Frenchmen / 1931
elephants
and ostriches
Lloyd
Bacon Manhattan Parade / 1931
rediscovering youth
Frank Borzage Young As You Feel
/ 1931
the nice girl
A. Edward Sutherland Palmy
Days / 1931
going for
the mail
Edward H. Griffith Rebound /
1931
room to room
Edmund Goulding Grand Hotel / 1932
Hobart Henley Night World / 1932
his own
breed
Ray
Enright The Tenderfoot / 1932
boxing himself in
Roy Del Ruth Winner Take All / 1932
a grand old drag
Norman Taurog The Phantom President / 1932
Tay Garnett One Way Passage /
1932
trouble
Clyde Bruckman and Harold Lloyd Movie Crazy / 1932
Edwin L. Marin The Death Kiss / 1932
against the world
Charles Brabin Stage Mother /
1933
nervous hangnails and dusty shoes
Karl
Freund Moonlight and Pretzels / 1933
the
vulgarians at the gate
Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley Footlight Parade / 1933
send in
the queer
George
Cukor Our Betters / 1933
all about us
Frank Capra Lady for a Day /
1933
Frank Capra Pocketful
of Miracles / 1961
blind faith
Howard
Bretherton and William KeighleyLadies They Talk About / 1933
behind the
eight ball
Rowland
Brown Blood Money / 1933
the
catfish eaters
Gregory
La Cava Bed of Roses / 1933
Maurine Watkins (screenplay),
William A. Seiter (director) Professional Sweetheart / 1933
Lowell
Sherman Broadway Thru a Keyhole / 1933
the hawk
swoops to pray
Lowell
Sherman She Done Him Wrong / 1933
Raoul Walsh Sailor’s
Luck / 1933
John M. Stahl Only Yesterday
/ 1933
Lloyd
Bacon and Busby Berkeley Wonder Bar / 1934
a bruising
Mark
Sandrich Hips, Hips, Horray! / 1934
crêpes
suzette
Alfred E. Green Housewife /
1934
sad and
silly animated sissies
the metaphorical and the real
Dave Fleischer Dizzy Red Riding
Hood / 1931
Hugh Harman Ride Him, Bosko! /
1932
cheering on beauty
Rudolph Ising Freddy the Freshman / 1932
we want betty!
Dave Fleischer Betty Boop for President / 1932
Rudolf Ising 1933 The Organ Grinder / 1933
klunky love
Walter Lantz King Klunk / 1933
the transformation
Ib Iwerks Flip the Frog—Soda Squirt / 1933
the cop on the beat the man on the moon
and me
John Foster and Vernon Stallings Magic Mummy / 1933
residual echoes
Rouben Mamoulian Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde / 1931 (see queer
street, 1920)
pansy’s
disqualified
Lloyd Bacon Fifty
Million Frenchmen / 1931 (see manservants, interior
decorators...., 1930)
elephants and ostriches
Lloyd Bacon Manhattan
Parade / 1931 (see manservants,
interior decorators...., 1930)
rediscovering
youth
Frank Borzage Young
As You Feel / 1931 (see manservants,
interior decorators...., 1930)
the nice girl
A. Edward Sutherland Palmy
Days / 1931 (see manservants, interior
decorators...., 1930)
going
for the mail
Edward H. Griffith Rebound
/ 1931 (see manservants, interior
decorators...., 1930)
boyfriends
William A. Wellman The Public
Enemy / 1931
love takes a
thousand forms
Leontine Sagan Mädchen in
Uniform (Girls in Uniform) / 1931
arbeit macht frei
René
Clair À Nous la Liberté (Freedom
for Us) / 1931
love is death
F. W. Murnau Tabu: A Story of the South Seas / 1931
a second
chance
Tod Browning Iron Man / 1931
room
to room
Edmund Goulding Grand
Hotel / 1932 (see manservants, interior decorators...., 1930)
leaving happy
Hobart Henley Night
World / 1932 (see manservants, interior decorators...., 1930)
no
time for heroes
Hugh Harman Ride
Him, Bosko! / 1932 (see manservants, interior decorators...., 1930)
his own breed
Ray Enright (The Tenderfoot / 1932 (see manservants,
interior decorators...., 1930)
boxing
himself in
Roy
Del Ruth Winner Take All / 1932 (see manservants,
interior decorators...., 1930)
a
grand old drag
Norman Taurog The Phantom President /
1932 (see
manservants, interior decorators....,
1930)
brief encounter
Tay Garnett One Way Passage / 1932
(see manservants, interior decorators...., 1930)
trouble
Clyde Bruckman and Harold Lloyd Movie Crazy / 1932 (see manservants, interior decorators...., 1930)
directing a murder
Edwin L. Marin The Death Kiss / 1932 (see manservants, interior decorators...., 1930)
no
time for heroes
Hugh Harman Ride Him, Bosko! / 1932 (see sad and silly animated sissies, 1931)
cheering
on beauty
Rudolph Ising \ Freddy the Freshman / 1932 (see sad and silly animated sissies, 1931)
we
want betty!
Dave Fleischer Betty Boop for President / 1932 (see sad and silly animated sissies, 1931)
a bisexual built for two
Dudley Murphy The Sport Parade / 1932
baby’s milk
George Marshall Their First Mistake
/ 1932
having to do what you have to do
John Francis Dillon Call Her
Savage / 1932
who is who and what is what
Norah
Blaney Miss Norah Blaney / 1932
romantic conventions
Robert
Siodmark Tumultes (Tumult) / 1932
a coming out story for straights
Archie
Mayo Night After Night / 1932
signals and signs
Cecil
B. DeMille The Sign of the Cross / 1932
going rogue
William Dieterle Lawyer Man / 1932
learning to waltz
William Wyler Tom of Culver
/ 1932
stealing a spoon
Rowland Brown and John Cromwell Hell’s Highway /
1932
to the lighthouse
Michael Delmer Lighthouse Love / 1932
inside out
James Whale The Old Dark House / 1932
the matchmacker, or, the tie that
binds
Alexander Korda The Wedding Rehearsal / 1932
we want betty!
Dave Fleischer Betty Boop for President
/ 1932
against the world
Charles
Brabin Stage Mother / 1933 (see manservants, interior
decorators...., 1930)
nervous hangnails and dusty shoes
Karl Freund (director) Moonlight and Pretzels / 1933 (see manservants, interior decorators...., 1930)
Lloyd Bacon and Busby
BerkeleyFootlight Parade / 1933 (see manservants, interior decorators....,
1930)
the transformation
Lee Blair, Shamus Culhane, Al Eugster, Grim Natwick and Irven Spence Flip the Frog—Soda Squirt / 1933 (see manservants, interior decorators...., 1930)
send
in the queer
George
Cukor Our Betters / 1933 (see manservants, interior decorators....,
1930)
all about us
Robert Riskin (screenplay, based on a story by Damon Runyon), Frank Capra (director) Lady for a Day / 1933 (see manservants, interior decorators...., 1930)
behind
the eight ball
Rowland
Brown Blood Money / 1933 (see manservants, interior decorators....,
1930)
blind
faith
Howard Bretherton and
William Keighley Ladies They Talk About / 1933 (see manservants, interior decorators....,
1930)
the
catfish eaters
Gregory La Cava Bed
of Roses / 1933
William A. Seiter
(director) Professional Sweetheart / 1933 (see
manservants, interior decorators....,
1930)
the
choice of flowers
Lowell Sherman Broadway
Thru a Keyhole / 1933 (see manservants,
interior decorators...., 1930)
Lowell Sherman She
Done Him Wrong / 1933 (see manservants, interior decorators....,
1930)
et-gay the ansy-pay
Raoul Walsh Sailor’s
Luck / 1933 (see
manservants, interior decorators....,
1930)
unfit
for reality
John M. Stahl Only Yesterday /
1933 (see manservants,
interior decorators...., 1930)
monkey
business
Rudolf Ising The Organ Grinder /1933 (see sad and silly animated sissies, 1931)
klunky love
Walter
Lantz King Klunk / 1933 (see sad
and silly animated sissies, 1931)
the transformation
Ib Iwerks Flip the Frog—Soda Squirt / 1933 (see sad and silly animated sissies, 1931)
the cop on the beat the man on the moon
and me
John Foster and Vernon Stallings Magic Mummy / 1933 (see sad and silly animated sissies, 1931)
loving sodom
James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber Lot in Sodom / 1933
being
happy
Al Boasberg (director) Myrt
and Marge / 1933
intentionally missing targets
William
A. Seiter Diplomaniacs / 1933
a first anniversary—and maybe last
James
Parrott Twice Two / 1933
playing with himself
Del
Lord Bring ‘Em Back a Wife / 1933
between genders
Reinhold
Schümzel Viktor und Viktoria (Victor and Victoria) / 1933
two men claiming a female identity
Rowland V. Lee I Am Suzanne /
1933
gentleman’s
agreement
Ernst Lubitsch Design
for Living / 1933
garbo gets
her wish
Rouben
Mamoulian Queen Christina / 1933
forgetting to be a lady
James
Whale The Kiss Before the Mirror / 1933
death of the pansies
Walter
Lang The Warrior’s Husband / 1933 || Difficult to Obtain
the real man
Mark Sandrich Aggie Appleby, Maker of
Men / 1933
riveting
Tod
Browning Fast Workers / 1933
brave new world
Robert Siodmak Brennendes Geheimmis (The Burning Secret) /1933
sleepwalkers
Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley Wonder Bar
/ 1934 (see manservants, interior decorators....,
1930)
a
bruising
Mark Sandrich Hips, Hips, Horray! / 1934 (see
manservants, interior decorators....,
1930)
crêpes suzette
Alfred E. Green Housewife /
1934 (see manservants, interior
decorators...., 1930)
dropping beads
by Douglas
Messerli
lovely episodes
Harlan
Thompson Kiss and Make-Up / 1934
under the hide
Mark Sandrich The Gay Divorcee /
1934
refusing to
be sensible
William K. Howard This Side of Heaven / 1934
heart, tears, and bologna
Jack
Conway The Gay Bride / 1934
how
to succeed on the stage
Lupino Lane My Old
Duchess (aka Oh, What a Duchess!) / 1934
rabbit holes in the texas prairie
Robert N. Bradbury The Lucky Texan
/ 1934
something of a drag
Elliott
Nugent She Loves Me Not / 1934
convenient
cross-dressing
Marcel Varnel Girls
Will Be Boys / 1934
julian’s
sister
Juliusz Gardan Czy
Lucyna to dziewczyna? (Is Lucyna a Girl?) / 1934 [film in Polish
only]
playing sexual chess
Richard C. Kahn Children of Loneliness
a.k.a The Third Sex / 1935 || Lost Film
little monsters
James Whale Bride of
Frankenstein / 1935
the sounds of laughter
Max
Reinhardt and William Dieterle A Midsummer Night’s Dream / 1935
refusing to learn
George
Cukor Sylvia Scarlett / 1935
ready for the road
Marshall Neilan This Is the Life
/ 1935
starving for
god
Ralph Steiner Pie in the Sky / 1935
sissies for kids
Ben Sharpsteen The Cookie Carnival / 1935
David Hand (director) Who Killed Cock Robin? / 1935
Shamus Culhane and Al Eugster Mary’s Little Lamb / 1935
pure
pretense: or, the woman who pretends she is a man who pretends he is a woman
who gets her man
Victor Saville First a Girl /
1935
study in hypocrisy
William Wyler These Three / 1936
[see these too, 1961]
quick, quick!
Clarence
G. Badger (director) Rangle River / 1936, USA 1939
saved from monsters
Jacques Deval Club des femmes / 1936
what
to do with a drunken sailor: the problem of sergei eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein Бронено́сец «Потёмкин»
Bronenosets Potyomkin (Battleship Potemkin) / 1925
Sergei Eisenstein Бежин луг, Bezhin lug
(Bezhin Meadow) / 1937
a love the lover cannot explain
Jean
Grémillon Gueule d’Amour (Lady Killer) / 1937
standing
by his man
Archie Mayo It’s Love
I’m After / 1937
a
world of the dead
Jean Renoir La Grande
Illusion (Grand Illusion) / 1937, USA 1938
the
toy
Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard Pygmalion / 1938
an intimate conversation between two women
William Wyler Jezebel / 1938
a connecticut safari
Howard Hawks Bringing up Baby / 1938
some
immodest questions
Victor Fleming Test
Pilot / 1938
detecting
love
Alexander Hall
The Amazing Mr. Williams / 1939
paradise lost, paradise regained
Arthur
J. Goulding A Chump at Oxford / 1939, released 1940
Films scheduled to see: 1887-1939
Judith of Bethulia (1914, D. W. Griffith) YouTube
Aus eines Mannes Mudchenjahren (A Man’s Girlhood) (1919, Karl Grune) no source
The Other Half (1919, King Vidor) own
The Hoodlum (1919, Sidney Franklin) own
The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse (1921, Rex Ingram) YouTube
Boy of Flanders (1924, Victor Schertzinger) no source
The Monster (1925, Roland West) YouTube, Internet Archive
The Scarlet Woman (1925, James Breenidge) no source
Ben-Hur (1925, Fred Niblo) YouTube
She’s a Prince (1926, Marcel Perez) no source
Gesetze der Liebe (The Laws of Love) (1927, Magnus Hirschfeld) no
source
Rita ou Rita? (1927, Reinald Ferreira) Internet Archive
A Woman of Affairs (1928, Clarence Brown)
Princess Mundane (1928, Germaine Dulac) no source
Glorifying the American Girl (1929, Millard Webb) YouTube/Prime
The Talk of Hollywood (1929, Mark Sandrich) YouTube
Flight (1929, Frank Capra) rarefilms
A Cottage at Dartmoor (1929, Antony Asquith) Vimeo
Bulldog Drummond (1929, F. Richard Jones) no source
Why Bring That Up? (1929, George Abbott) no source
Syncopation (1929, William Dieterle) own
Office Wife (1930, Lloyd Bacon) on order
Kiss Me Again (1931, William A. Seiter) no source
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1931, Phil Jutzi) Criterion
Little Caesar (1931, Mervyn LeRoy) YouTube
Roar of the Dragon (1932, Wesley Ruggles) no source
Croner (1932, Lloyd Bacon) no source
Hotel Splendide (1932, Michael Powell) no source
Red Dust (1932, Victor Fleming) Prime
Red Headed Woman (1932) Jack Conway) Vudu
The Seventh Commandment (1932, Dwain Esper and James P Hogan) no source
Fame (1932, Leslie S. Hiscott) no source
Anna and Elizabeth (1933, Frank Wisbar) no source
Calvacade (1933, Frank Lloyd) YouTube
So This Is Africa (1933, Edward F. Cline) YouTube
Christopher Strong (1933, Dorothy Arzner) own
Los tres berrentines (1933, Enrique Susini) no source
Wine, Women and Song (1933, Herbert Brenon) YouTube
The Invisible Man (1933, James Whale) no source
I’m No Angel (1933, Wesley Ruggles) vimeo
Going Hollywood (1933, Raoul Walsh) ok.ru
Der Page von Dalmasse-Hotel (1933, Victor Janson) own
Dancing Lady (1933, Robert Z. Leonard) ok.ru
Grand Slam (1933, William Dieterle) ok. run
Arizona to Broadway (1933, James Tirling) ok.ru
International House (1933, A. Edward Sutherland) no source
The Mystery of Gender (1933, Lothar Golte andn Carl Kurzmayer) no source
Gado Bravo (Wild Cattle) (1934, Max Nosseck and Antonio Lopes
Ribeiro) no source
Peter (1934, Harry Koster) own
Schwarzer Tages (Black Fighter) (1934 Johannes Meyer) no source
Tomorrow's Youth (1934, Charles Lamon) YouTube
Top Hat (1935, Mark Sandrich) Prime
The Mystery of Gender (1935, Lother Gotte)
Dracula’s Daughter (1936, Lambert Hillyer) Prime
The Invisible Ray (1936, Lambert Hillyer) ok.ru
Craig's Wife (1936, Dorothy Azner)
La Garcone (1936, Jean de Limur) French only
The Awful Truth (1937, Leo McCarey)
Captains Courageous (1937, Victor Fleming) ok.run / vudu
Woman-Wise (1937, Allan Dwan)
