Two silent films in which cross-dressing plays a major role are: _Poor Little Rich Girl_ starring Mary Pickford (Maurice Tourneur, 1917) _Florida Enchantment_ c.1913 - I'm not sure of the director, but the film is available on the "Origin of the Fantasy Feature" video from the Library of Congress In the Pickford film, the cross-dressing is girl to boy; in _Florida Enchantment_ two women (one white, one black) dress as men. The latter is very interesting in terms of performances of race as well as gender. Although not often the primary focus of the films, moments of cross-dressing were pivotal in several of Alice Guy-Blache's Solax films. In fact, I think it was fairly common in films of her era (as others have mentioned, cross-dressing was a convention of theatre and vaudeville, so it's not surprising that it would show up in early films as well). - Amelie Hastie University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee [log in to unmask] ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]