Talk:Sweedie

== Delete? == Isn't this a WP:NOT - collection of indiscriminate information? What is encyclopedic about this list? -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 17:14, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Don't Delete!
This is apparently a list (and an encyclopedic one in the literal if not figurative sense) of the early Wallace Beery "Sweedie" drag comedies, in which the he-man actor (later the highest paid actor in the world by 1932 at MGM--his contract called for his being paid a $1 more than anyone else on the lot) dressed up in drag for a series of comedies as a Swedish maid. This is very rare information, and obscure enough not to really belong in the necessarily truncated filmography on the Beery site (Beery made more movies than John Wayne), but it's nice to have a page where they're all grouped together as a "Sweedie filmography", from the standpoint of screen history: I'm quite a Beery aficionado and this is the first time I've seen all the Sweedie titles grouped together myself. Beery first gained notoriety doing these comedies and it's very good to have this resource in Wikipedia. Skymasterson (talk) 13:10, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

The Sweedie comedies may be forgotten by the general public today, but they were one of the very popular, very early comedy series produced for film, one which is well-documented and was the starting point of the career of an important Hollywood figure. The LGBT aspect I question (yeah, Beery was "in drag," but it wasn't a statement about transvestism), but it certainly was part of the immigrant comedy/ethnic comedy genre of the era and so is an important documentation of that. Whether this article is good or sufficient is another issue, but the Sweedie series definitely deserves an entry.24.164.159.33 (talk) 14:39, 10 May 2009 (UTC)