On August 12, 1962, the film Kaming Mga Talyada (We Who Are Sexy) premiered at the Life Theater in Manila, Philippines. Produced by Sampaguita Pictures, a leading Philippine film studio at the time, and featuring top Filipina and Filipino stars of the postwar era, the movie was publicized as a comedy about seven feminine brothers raised by their mother as seven "sisters" until their father, a military officer, returns home "to make men out of them." The film's plot hinged on the crossing of gender categories and included an extended cameo by Christine Jorgensen, a white American transgender woman, who had recently performed at nightclubs in Manila as the "most talked about international personality of our time." Jorgensen was featured prominently in the film's promotional material—the Weekly Graphic, a "magazine for every member of the family," ran a full-page ad with Jorgensen featured front and center: "Kaming Mga Talyada: We … Who Are Sexy! The Screen Shakes, With L-A-F-F-S … When You Can't Tell 'Les Boys' from 'Les Girls'!!!" Jorgensen's cameo consisted of an eighteen-minute version of her nightclub routine, which served as the film's turning point: right before the brothers transform into gun-toting nationalist soldiers, they attend two of her performances, where they witness her singing torch songs in English, imitating Marlene Dietrich, and presenting the popular love song "Dahil Sa Iyo" in Tagalog. For a brief moment, Jorgensen was the talk of the town in Philippine entertainment circles, and a journalist from the Tagalog newspaper Taliba wrote that the movie provided the opportunity to see and hear "ang ikawalong kababalaghan ng mundo" (the eighth wonder of the world).