Great Moments in Female Disguise History

or

Fun with Female Disguises 

on the movies and TV

This list contains great moments, noteworthy events and missed opportunities in the last century of female disguise and masking.

1947: "The Black Widow"  The first real attempts at female masking in film (that I know of).  Set the stage for MI masking scenes twenty years later.

Sept 1966: Mission Impossible first airs

March 1969:"The Bunker" with Lee Meriwether first airs and starts a long line of female masking story lines.

1970s: The Internet is started.

Sept 1971: Casey joins the IMF, she was always impersonating some young woman.  I've dreamed about these impersonations for years.

1972: "Baffled" with Spock, the bad guy was disguise as an old lady.  It surprised me when I saw it years ago  The first MtoF themed disguise I had seen.

Feb 1973: MI cancelled.  Not a great moment, but a big event.

19??: Dustin Hoffman does "Tootie", the first really mainstream story with a guy truly impersonating a woman.

1988: MI comes back.  Every episode I dreamed that Jane Badler would need to impersonate some woman, but it never happened.  The great moment that never came.

Late 1980s: The Maskman first successfully impersonates a woman.

1990: "The Death of the Incredible Hulk", Elizabeth Gracen impersonates a half a dozen women during the movie.  I love the set-up and execution of the bathroom quick change scene and the scene where she impersonates the woman security guard to get into the building.  This woman was my kind of woman.

1990: "The Prefect Bride"  Sammi Davis impersonates Kelly Peston to meet a young lady at the airport.  Kelly had asked the young lady to come identify Sammi as the killer of her (the young lady's) boyfriend. Sammi is the to be bride of Kelly's brother.  Sammi is also a nurse and uses this to later killer the young lady in the hospital.

Mid 1990s?: "The Marshall" airs an episode with Wendie Meldum as a hitwoman, she impersonated another half a dozen women during the episode.  She is captured, escapes, is captured again and escapes again to return again in a later episode. She was a bit crazy but very cunning.

1992: "Prey of the Chameleon" Daphne Zuniga play an escaped mental patient who impersonates her victims (most she murders), this includes James Wilder and Alexandra Paul (of Baywatch fame).  The impersonation are just done with clothes and wigs or other things she has available.  The byline was: "She loves you. She kills you. She becomes you." Again she is a bit crazy.

Mid !990s: The WEB is started.

1996?: Kerry starts "her" site.

1997: The Maskman first visits Kerry's site and realizes there are more crazy people like him out there on the WEB.

1998: The Maskman starts his first site, not around anymore.  (OK, it was big to me.)

2000: GW and staff finally get their butts in gear and launch MaskFiction.com

The Maskman does not confirm any of the above dates, as he wasn't even around for some of them, however some I got from "The Complete Mission Impossible Dossier" a must for any disguise fan's library.

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