Frederick Kovert

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, alongside Julian Eltinge, then the best-known female impersonator in the entertainment world.

Kovert appeared in the 1925 The Wizard of Oz, a silent film adaptation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and also designed the film's costumes.

[2] Kovert's nude photography 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.

[2] Kovert died in 1949 by a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Kovert in the James Finlayson 1925 film Chasing the Chaser .
A photograph from Kovert's physique studio. Kovert's photography of male nudes made him a target for police, as such photographs were considered obscene.
Kovert (left) with Ben Turpin in an advertisement for the 1924 comedy The Reel Virginian , directed by Mack Sennett .