George Weiss (producer)

George Weiss (April 9, 1921) is an American film 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 film Glen 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.

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April 9 - 1921 - American - Film producer - Z-Movies - 1950s - Test Tube Babies - Racket Girls - Ed Wood Jr. - Exploitation film - Glen or Glenda - Sexual reassignment surgery - Christine Jorgensen

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