Sweedie

Actor Wallace Beery (left) portrayed Sweedie the Swedish maid in a 1914–16 series of short comedy films

Sweedie (also known as My Sweedie, The Swedish Maid}) ^[1] is a fictional character portrayed by actor Wallace Beery in drag in a series of comedy films ^[2] from 1914 to 1916. The series is notable as the means by which Beery, a particularly masculine actor (which is the series' joke), first made his name in the film industry. ^[3]

List of Sweedie films

• Sweedie the Swatter (July 13, 1914)
• Sweedie and the Lord (1914)
• Topsy-Turvy Sweedie (1914)
• Sweedie and the Double Exposure (1914)
• Sweedie Springs a Surprise (1914)
• Sweedie's Skate (1914)
• Sweedie's Clean-Up (1914)
• Golf Champion 'Chick' Evans Links with Sweedie (1914)
• The Fickleness of Sweedie (1914)
• Sweedie Learns to Swim (1914)
• She Landed a Big One (aka She Landed a Lord) (1914)
• Sweedie the Laundress (1914)
• Sweedie the Trouble Maker (1914)
• Countess Sweedie (1914)
• Sweedie at the Fair (1914)
• A Maid of War (1914)
• Sweedie and the Hypnotist (1914)
• Sweedie Collects for Charity (1914)
• Sweedie and the Sultan's Present (1915)
• Sweedie's Suicide (1915)
• Sweedie and Her Dog (1915)
• The New Teacher (1915)
• Sweedie Goes to College (1915)
• Sweedie's Hopeless Love (1915)
• Sweedie Learns to Ride (1915)
• Sweedie in Vaudeville (1915)
• Sweedie's Hero (1915)
• Sweedie's Finish (1915)
• Sweedie, the Janitor (1916)

See also

• Cross-gender acting

References

1. Horak, Laura (1 November 2017). "Cross-Dressing and Transgender Representation in Swedish Cinema, 1908–2017". European Journal of Scandinavian Studies. 47 (2). doi: 10.1515/ejss-2017-0025 .
2. Wallace Beery Full Biography, The New York Times ; retrieved January 6, 2012.
3. Wallengren, Ann-Kristin. Welcome Home Mr Swanson: Swedish Emigrants and Swedishness on Film. Translated by Charlotte Merton. Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2014.