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Frederick Kovert (sometimes written Ko Vert or KoVert) was an American female impersonator. Kovert appeared in drag in a number of comic roles in silent films of the 1920s. His first film role was in the 1920 film ''
Following the end of his career in film, Kovert became a physique photographer, operating under the name Kovert of Hollywood.
Frederick Kovert (sometimes written Ko Vert or KoVert) was an American female impersonator. Kovert appeared in drag in a number of comic roles in silent films of the 1920s. His first film role was in the 1920 film ''An Adventuress
''The Isle of Love'' is a 1922 recut of a 1920 American silent drama film ''Over the Rhine'' aka ''An Adventuress'' starring female impersonator Julian Eltinge. The film also contained two actors unknown during filming: Virginia Rappe and Rudolp ...
'', alongside Julian Eltinge, then the best-known female impersonator in the entertainment world. Kovert appeared in the 1925 ''The Wizard of Oz
''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' or ''The Wizard of Oz'' most commonly refers to:
*'' The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'', a 1900 American novel by L. Frank Baum often reprinted as ''The Wizard of Oz''
** Wizard of Oz (character), from the Baum novel serie ...
'', a silent film adaptation of L. Frank Baum's '' The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'', and also designed the film's costumes.
Following the end of his career in film, Kovert became a physique photographer, operating under the name Kovert of Hollywood. Bob Mizer
Robert Henry Mizer (March 27, 1922 – May 12, 1992) was an American photographer and filmmaker, known for pushing boundaries of depicting male homoerotic content with his work in the mid 20th century.
Biography
Bob Mizer's earliest photographs ...
, who would go on to pioneer the physique magazine format with his '' Physique Pictorial'', apprenticed under Kovert in the 1940s. Kovert's nude photography
Nude photography is the creation of any photograph which contains an image of a nude or semi-nude person, or an image suggestive of nudity. Nude photography is undertaken for a variety of purposes, including educational uses, commercial applic ...
business made him a target for the Los Angeles Police Department vice squad, and in 1945 his studio was raided and he pled guilty to possession of obscene materials.
Kovert died in 1949 by a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kovert, Frederick Physique photography American male silent film actors 20th-century American male actors American drag queens 1949 deaths Suicides by firearm in California