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Dinah East (Jeremy Stockwell) becomes a glamorous movie queen in the 1950's... however upon her death she is found to be a man. The opening stages of the film show a young Dinah at the film studio trying for work; the security guard asks if she wasn't there yesterday, and she says she was, as a boy, but today she's back as herself. In fact it was the other way round.
Jeremy Stockwell is in the Dinah role for the entire film and he looks very good with his small features and slim waist. He looks like a cross between Doris Day and Christopher Morley.
Ahead of the social conventions of the time, the film suffers from a small budget and comes across as nearly soft porn, but it's nonetheless fascinating. Significant plot elements are the lost son who believes Dinah to be his true mother, and a boyfriend who knows the truth about Dinah; of course she had had no gender reassignment operation.
This was Jeremy Stockwell's first role, and his only transgender role so far as I know. The All Movie Guide states that Ultra Violet plays Dinah, but this is an error; Ultra Violet plays a friendly dress designer at the studio -- the first to receive Dinah's confidence.
HF October 2007
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