Sweedie or Sweedie, The Swedish Maid is a fictional manly character in drag portrayed by Wallace Beery

Wallace Beery

Wallace Fitzgerald Beery was an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Bill in Min and Bill opposite Marie Dressler, as Long John Silver in Treasure Island, as Pancho Villa in Viva Villa!, and his titular role in The Champ, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor...

 in a series of comedy films 1914-1916. The series is notable as the means by which Beery, a particularly masculine actor (which is the series' joke), first made his name in the film industry. Beery later became the world's highest paid actor by 1932, with his MGM contract stipulating that he receive $1 more than any other actor on the lot, a clause that came back to haunt the studio when they hired Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo , born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish film actress. Garbo was an international star and icon during Hollywood's silent and classic periods. Many of Garbo's films were sensational hits, and all but three were profitable...

 at a record-breaking level then had to match her salary for Beery. Beery won the Academy Award for The Champ

The Champ

The Champ is a 1931 American film written by Frances Marion, Leonard Praskins and Wanda Tuchock, and directed by King Vidor. The movie stars Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper , and tells the story of a washed up alcoholic boxer who tries to put his life together for the sake of his young son.The...

and remains arguably best known today for his performances as Long John Silver

Long John Silver

Long John Silver is a fictional character and the primary antagonist of the novel Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Silver is also known by the nicknames "Barbecue" and the "Sea-Cook".- Profile :...

 in Treasure Island

Treasure Island (1934 film)

Treasure Island is a 1934 movie adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous 1883 novel Treasure Island. Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map and travels on a sailing ship to a remote island, but pirates led by Long John Silver threaten to take away the honest seafarers’ riches and...

(1934) with Lionel Barrymore

Lionel Barrymore

Lionel Barrymore was an American actor of stage, screen and radio. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul...

 and as Pancho Villa

Pancho Villa

José Doroteo Arango Arámbula – better known by his pseudonym Francisco Villa or its hypocorism Pancho Villa – was one of the most prominent Mexican Revolutionary generals....

 in Viva Villa!

Viva Villa!

Viva Villa! is a 1934 American film starring Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa and was written by Ben Hecht, adapted from a biography by Edgecumb Pinchon and Odo B. Stade. The picture was directed by Jack Conway. There was special, uncredited help with the script by Howard Hawks, James Kevin...

(1934) opposite Fay Wray

Fay Wray

Fay Wray was a Canadian-American actress most noted for playing the female lead in King Kong...

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• Sweedie the Swatter (13 July 1914)
• Sweedie and the Lord (1914)
• Topsy-Turvy Sweedie (1914)
• Sweedie and the Double Exposure (1914)
• Sweedie Springs a Surprise (1914)
• Sweedie's Skate (1914)
• Sweedie's Clean-Up (1914)
• Golf Champion 'Chick' Evans Links with Sweedie (1914)
• The Fickleness of Sweedie (1914)
• Sweedie Learns to Swim (1914)
• She Landed a Big One (aka She Landed a Lord) (1914)
• The Laundress (1914)
• Sweedie the Trouble Maker (1914)
• Countess Sweedie (1914)
• Sweedie at the Fair (1914)
• A Maid of War (1914)
• Sweedie and the Hypnotist (1914)
• Sweedie Collects for Charity (1914)
• Sweedie and the Sultan's Present (1915)
• Sweedie's Suicide (1915)
• Sweedie and Her Dog (1915)
• The New Teacher (1915)
• Sweedie Goes to College (1915)
• Sweedie's Hopeless Love (1915)
• Sweedie Learns to Ride (1915)
• Sweedie in Vaudeville (1915)
• Sweedie's Hero (1915)
• Sweedie's Finish (1915)
• Sweedie, the Janitor (1916)