Trans Allegories in Film: 'Your Name' (2016)
Our protagonists perform as the opposite gender while still preserving the parts of their personalities that makes themselves who they are.
Her Splendid Folly (1933)
Solomon Ginsberg is the President of International Pictures Corporation and hires Joan McAllister, an unemployed stenographer, to double for his star, Laura Girard. While on a location trip, Laura is killed in an automobile accident, and in order to save the money already invested in the film Ginsberg, aided by the film's leading-man, Wallace Morely, with whom Joan is more than a little infatuated, persuades Joan to assume the identity of the dead actress, whose death is being concealed.
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Solomon Ginsberg is the President of International Pictures Corporation and hires Joan McAllister, an unemployed stenographer, to double for his star, Laura Girard. While on a location trip, Laura is killed in an automobile accident, and in order to save the money already invested in the film Ginsberg, aided by the film's leading-man, Wallace Morely, with whom Joan is more than a little infatuated, persuades Joan to assume the identity of the dead actress, whose death is being concealed.
Rating:NR
Genre:Romance, Adventure, Comedy
Written By:Willis Kent
In Theaters:10/7/1933
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Runtime:60 minutes
Studio:Progressive Pictures, Willis Kent Productions
Cast
William A. O'Connor
Director
Lilian Bond
Jill McAllister / Laura Gerard
Theodore von Eltz
Wallace Morley / John Ebbetts
Alexander Carr
Solomon Ginsberg
Beryl Mercer
Mrs. McAllister
J. Frank Glendon
Charles Hemingway
Lloyd Whitlock
John DeSylva
Roberta Gale
Sally Lee
Frances Lee
Natalie
Louise Beavers
Anastasia
William P. Burt
Justice of the Peace
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