Horak cites seventeen films released in the U.S. In her book Girls Will Be Boys film scholar Laura Horak writes that females playing male roles have a long history in the theater, Shakespeare is filled with examples of gender-reversal (Portia suits up to argue in court and Viola is, for most of Twelfth Night, Cesario). In the silent era, female characters in trousers and waistcoats were acceptable and even expected, just as men in drag were a source of comedy. Her governess asks “And you want to be a proper young lady?” To which she responds “I don’t want that at all.” Can she enjoy the privileges afforded to men simply by wearing a suit? Ossi has just enough naiveté and gumption to find out. The high-spirited teenaged niece of a stuffy bureaucrat longs for the freedom to be herself outside the social proscriptions for her gender. In 1918, things are beginning to change for women and their place in society, but not fast enough for Ossi Oswalda in Ernst Lubitsch’s I Don’t Want to Be a Man ( Ich möchte kein Mann sein). Production Hal Roach Studios Print Source SFSFF Collection Production Produktions-AG Union Print Source George Eastman MuseumĬast Clyde Cook, Katherine Grant, James Finlayson, Laura De Cardi, and Martha Sleeper This program contains the following two films:ĭirected by Ernst Lubitsch, Germany, 1918Ĭast Ossi Oswalda, Kurt Götz, Ferry Sikla, Margarete Kupfer, and Victor Janson
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