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Dawn: A Charleston Legend (2022)
Directed by Ron Davis
Overview
In 1968, Gordon Langley Hall claimed he was a woman misdiagnosed as male at birth because of a genital defect. To correct this, Gordon underwent one of the first sex reassignment surgeries in the United States. Her subsequent marriage to a black auto mechanic and the mysterious birth of their daughter Natasha sent Charleston, SC society into a fury and cast serious doubts on the truth behind Dawn’s story.
Length 34 minutes
Actors
Dawn Langley Simmons | Alexia Jasmene | Mildred Simmons | Natasha Simmons | Stephanie Riggio Bulger | John-Paul Simmons | Christine Jorgensen | Pierre Berton