1-177: major plot element
178-332: minor plot element
333-555: lost/unavailable
Links in the notes where available, with notes on the type of crossdressing in the film (usually a disguise/costume, occasionally drag or cross-gender casting, frequently overlapping)
Further reading:
-The Celluloid Closet (Chapter 1: Who's a Sissy?)
-Redressing the ‘Natural’: The Temporary Transvestite Film
- Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934
-“Vestiti semimaschili”: Women Dressing as Men in Italian Silent Cinema
- Girls Will Be Boys in German Silent Cinema
- Cross-dressing Women in the Cinema of the Russian Empire, 1910-1917
- Male Cross-Dressing Performances in Early British Cinema, 1898-1918
Not on Letterboxd:
-Karla's Aunt (1915) [fragment, Viggo Larsen in drag at 0:35]
-Kruger and Ward…
