Glen or Glenda (1953)
"I Changed My Sex!"
ThumbScore
👍 67%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 39%
(RT: 39%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Timothy Farrell as Dr. Alton / Narrator
Edward D. Wood Jr. as Glen / Glenda (as Daniel Davis)
Lyle Talbot as Inspector Warren
Dolores Fuller as Barbara
'Tommy' Haynes as Alan / Anne
Charlie Crafts as Johnny (as Charles Crafts)
Conrad Brooks as Banker / Reporter / Pickup Artist / Bearded Drag (as Connie Brooks)
Is Glen or Glenda good?
It's divisive. 67% audience score, estimated from 162 TMDB ratings. Critics scored it lower at 39%, but audiences disagreed.
Overview
Glen doesn't dare tell his fiancée Barbara that he is a transvestite known as Glenda; in addition, Alan is undergoing medical treatment to become a woman named Anne; both stories are told by a psychiatrist. Wikipedia ↗
