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The runner-up for the coveted Golden Chemise at the 2016 TransDance Film Festival, this documentary series continuation from the 1990s celebrates Film Mauve, These films while not as dark as Film Noir still are reminiscent of the intrigue and suspense of the 1940s and 1950s. These movies include portrayals of and by crossdressers, post-op, pre-op, and non-op transsexuals, transvestites and all of the gender-fluid characters we absolutely adored but dare not tell Mom and Dad.

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From 1991, Spellbinding tells the story of Dr. Constance Svedin (Ingrid Lindstrom), a psychologist working with her colleague Jean Ballentyne at a Psychiatric hospital in Oswego, N.Y. Jean has been discovered several nights wearing a nurse uniform, but cannot recall crossdressing, which he attributes to short-term amnesia. Constance determines that Jean subconsciously wants to be Ann Sheridan, and that the confusion arose from the severe headaches Jean is suffering due to the loud, incessant playing of a Theramin in the staff break room.

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A Dark Passageway was filmed entirely on location in 1993 in Rahway, New Jersey, and stars Loren Bakula in a duel role as Vinnie Perrone and his girlfriend Amelia Geneverino. Vinnie is on the run after being unjustly (is there any other way) accused of murdering his wife, who actually is alive and is responsible for a clever frame up. A plastic surgeon friend of hers performs image-altering surgery, and Vinnie wakes up looking like Amelia's twin. The climactic surprise is that Vinnie decides he really like the way he looks. He and Amelia secretly wed before settling down as spinster twin sisters and opening an avant garde bookstore and record shop in Hackensack,

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From 1996, His Kind of Woman repeats the formula of a bank accountant on the run from the law. Unjustly accused of embezzlement, Joey Pentangelo is forced to assume the identity of his late wife Marie. More of a noir foray into a dark comedy of errors, Joey/Marie (Danny Clerk) finds himself awkwardly falling for Sean O’Feeny, the manager of the bank where he/she now works as a teller. Marie gives into her yearnings, only to be surprised that Sean is really Janine, a Drag King from Bayonne. Together they find the evidence to exonerate Joey, but Sean insists on marrying Marie. The sequel, The Groom Wore White, was one of the first films to explore, albeit playfully, a new genre aptly labeled as Forced Mauve.

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Set in Manhattan during WWII , Walk-up on 82nd Street (1995) brings wartime intrigue a new twist as FBI Special Agent Dave Zelnick, played by newcomer Nicki Lake, goes undercover to infiltrate a spy ring at an Upper East Side Brothel. He fails utterly in his mission, mistakenly reporting for work at a Knitting Club one floor down, and ends up as a Coffee Hostess for a whole lot of rich attractive and unattached needy women who change Dave's name to Purl.

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Set in 1940 Australia, this entry marks the first and only film appearance of Junior Montalbano, who portrays Tommy Davis, a young man hired by Arthur Treacle. President of Cantrall Trading. Ltd. in an attempt to gain majority interest in the company. Treacle manipulates Tommy into impersonating Lana Cantrall, the sole heir to family fortune Junior immediately realizes that things really aren't at all what they seem and discovers that Lana is really Lawrence. Between confusing screen-play revisions, changes in directors (twice), and several changes in his medication, Junior lost track of who was whom, and whether or not he himself was a guy playing a girl or a girl playing a guy. Montalbano retired from acting. He changed his name to Roberta Cowell and opened a Pet Store in Kearny. From 1994, A Strange Arrangement.

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From 1996, This Girl for Hire stars Peter Ragazzo. a down on his luck shipping clerk in 1947 West Covina who is hired by an unscrupulous studio head to play Olivia Bennett, a well-to-do Madame in Los Angeles. Almost a Mauve within Mauve, both the character and the actor portraying him were forced into the parallel roles through hastily signed contracts. Peter went on to play the same role in a brief run on television, This Girl STILL for Hire, mostly at the insistence of his wife Connie, who explained that she liked the perk Peter got in bringing home his wardrobe.

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In Skirting the Issue a sequel of sorts to her previous work, Girl in Hiding, Missy Lupino repeats the role of the husband who had been on the run. His wife agreed reluctantly at first, but eventually embraces the idea of having her husband in dresses. Missy's real-life wife Lisa had no reservations whatsoever, being bisexual and even prettier than her gorgeous husband. Missy reported that this role was his favorite because unlike her previous films, all the set pieces were upholstered in leather instead of satin, and that the only time she slid off the divan was entirely by choice.

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The Film Mauve Series is available exclusively on Disney+ . Film Mauve Three is a Movin' Dirt Production, Ltd. For Ms Roland and DiMaggio and Film Mauve USA/Australia, this is Bobbie Cabot.