Equality

David Carradine Cross Dressing Nugget

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If David Carradine really died in drag, as the New York Post reported, it wasn’t the first time. In full cross-dress regalia, he played Pearl, a co-kidnapper of a screaming baby, in the obscure 1989 film Sonny Boy. Leonard Maltin describes the movie as a “repulsive, socially unredeemable waste of cellulloid,” but Carradine brought his usual magnetism to it–and he sure did look pretty in polka dots.

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