Gender Benders
Buy Tickets | 120 minutes
A Woman (US, Charlie Chaplin, 1915, 20 min.) – Charlie Chaplin makes a surprisingly beautiful woman when he dons women’s clothing—and becomes a prize object of affection for his girlfriend’s womanizing father!
I Don’t Want to be a Man (Ich möchte kein Mann sein!) (Germany, 1918, 45 min.) – A zingy comedy from Ernst Lubitsch about a girl (Ossi Oswalda) who disguises herself as a boy to have a night on the town. Little does she suspect that her uptight tutor (Curt Goetz) will fall for her, and they go home in a carriage together, drunkenly making out. Only the next day does the disguise get unraveled!
Madame Behave (US, 1925, 55 min.) – Advertised as “a cousin to Charley’s Aunt,” The famous female impersonator Julian Eltinge reprises one of his celebrated Broadway roles. A wacky comedy of errors in which Eltinge’s character must cross-dress to keep his uncle out of jail, while two men fight for his affection.