Dolores Fuller dies at 88; actress dated director Ed Wood
Years after starring in her boyfriend's low-budget films 'Glen or Glenda' and 'Jail Bait,' Fuller became something of a cult icon. She also co-wrote several Elvis Presley movie songs, and founded a record company.
By Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times
May 11, 2011
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dolores-fuller-20110511,0,5525788.storyDolores Fuller, the onetime actress-girlfriend of cross-dressing schlock movie director Ed Wood who co-starred with Wood in his low-budget 1950s cult classic "Glen or Glenda," has died. She was 88.
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Fuller said in the Fangoria interview that she "didn't know Eddie was a transvestite when we first got together — even the first year, I didn't know."
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Dolores Fuller (1923-2011)
Ed Wood's angora-wearing muse was 88 years old.
Posted 05/11/2011 1050 AM by Matt Singer
http://www.ifc.com/news/2011/05/dolores-fuller-1923-2011.phpWood cast her as the lead in his infamous first film, "Glen or Glenda" (1953). The deeply personal (and, yes, deeply flawed) picture told the story of a transvestite named Glen (Wood) who's struggling to come to grips with his love of cross-dressing. Fuller played Barbara's Glen's girlfriend, who is unaware of Glen's taste for women's clothing, particularly her own angora sweaters. The scenario was largely autobiographical; Fuller and Wood were dating and, for at least the first year of their relationship, she never discovered his taste in clothes. In the film's finale, famously recreated in Tim Burton's 1994 biopic "Ed Wood," Glen tells Barbara the truth, she gives him the sweater off her back, and they live happily ever after. That was the artist escaping into art in order to live out his fantasy. In truth, Fuller wasn't quite so understanding of Wood's transvestitism, and the couple broke up for a variety of reasons in 1955.
