# Movies With Women Dressing as Men **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 6, 2005, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-women-dressing-as-men/288605 "2005-02-06T03:05:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gfloyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d2c977/32.png) [@gfloyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gfloyd)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-women-dressing-as-men/288605/21 "2005-02-06T21:16:53Z")
There was a TV show on the WB, which I really liked maybe five years ago, called something like American High or such and had a girl dressed as a boy, though either the reasons weren’t ever developed or I’ve since forgotten. It was ages ago. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-women-dressing-as-men/288605/22 "2005-02-06T21:33:26Z")
In the film _Fiesta_, Esther Williams disguises herself as her twin brother (Ricardo Montalban) to fight a bull. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-women-dressing-as-men/288605/23 "2005-02-06T22:19:43Z")
In one episode of Star Trek Deep Space Nine a female Ferrengi impersonates a male becauise Ferrengi laws prevent females from doing business. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-women-dressing-as-men/288605/24 "2005-02-06T22:21:44Z")
Oh, and an episode of _Futurama_ where Fry and Bender join the army, and Leela puts on a false beard to rescue them. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-women-dressing-as-men/288605/25 "2005-02-06T22:35:40Z")
Whoopi Goldberg invents the alias of white male CEO Robert Cutty (yes, after the whisky) in the underrated comedy, _The Associate._ Though I haven’t seen it, Cicely Tyson most probably assumed a man’s identity during the made-for-TV movie, _A Woman Called Moses_, since that was an actual tactic used to escape detection of the notorious Harriet Tubman, foremost conductor on the Underground Railroad. Kudos to **Walloon** for all his picks. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-women-dressing-as-men/288605/26 "2005-02-06T23:36:26Z")
> [@Walloon](#): > > Sylvia Scarlett (1936) I came in specifically to mention this, because I saw it recently (eight months ago or so). Definitely an odd, but not an unsatisfying, movie. An interesting mix of badly dated and way ahead of its time, it feels like it’s about three movies in one. Starts out as movie A, abruptly turns into movie B, and about twenty minutes before the end it suddenly changes again into movie C. Worth seeing for Katharine Hepburn’s performance. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-women-dressing-as-men/288605.md?page=1)