Dawn: A Charleston Legend
Dawn: A Charleston Legend

Dawn: A Charleston Legend

8.0(1 votes)
2022
0h 34m
Documentary

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.

Production

Docutainment Films

Cast

Dawn Langley Simmons

Dawn Langley Simmons

Self (archive footage)

Alexia Jasmene

Alexia Jasmene

Dawn Langley Simmons (voiceover)

Mildred Simmons

Mildred Simmons

Self

Natasha Simmons

Natasha Simmons

Self

Stephanie Riggio Bulger

Stephanie Riggio Bulger

Self

John-Paul Simmons

John-Paul Simmons

Self (archive footage)

Christine Jorgensen

Christine Jorgensen

Self (archive footage)

Pierre Berton

Pierre Berton

Self (archive footage)

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