George Weiss (April 9, 1921) is an Americanfilm producer who specialized in Z-Movies during the 1950s. Some the movies he made were Test Tube Babies and Racket Girls. He is also the film producer to give Ed Wood Jr. his start by financing the exploitation filmGlen or Glenda which rumor has it, was originally conceived as a fictionalized story of the infamous sexual reassignment surgery had by Christine Jorgensen a few months earlier, but Wood changed it into a story about a transvestite and then tacked on a few scens about sexual reassignment surgery. April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (100th in leap years). ... 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the... Edward D. Wood, Jr. ... Exploitation is the name given to genre of films, extant since the earliest days of moviemaking, but popularized in the 1970s. ... Glen or Glenda or I Lived 2 Lives is a movie filmed in 1953, starring its director Ed Wood, Bela Lugosi, and Woods then girlfriend Dolores Fuller. ... Sex reassignment surgery (SRS) includes the surgical procedures by which a persons physical appearance and function of their existing sexual characteristics are changed to that of the other sex. ... Christine Jorgensen (May 30, 1926–May 3, 1989), born George Jorgensen, Jr. ... Sex reassignment surgery (SRS) includes the surgical procedures by which a persons physical appearance and function of their existing sexual characteristics are changed to that of the other sex. ...
Weiss was unaware of Wood's fondness for women's clothing, but it soon came to the surface when Wood wrote an intensely personal script about a man who struggles with an angora fetish while trying to find acceptance from his fiance.
Weiss wasn't too happy about the focus being taken off the sex change aspect of the story, but Wood took everything so personally that it became evident that the plot wasn't going to change with him at the helm.
Weiss did everything he could to market the film, and in the underworld of B-movie making, that meant a lot of changes depending on where the film was playing.
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