Dawn: A Charleston Legend

34m
Documentary
8

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.

Cast

Dawn Langley Simmons
Self (archive footage)
Alexia Jasmene
Dawn Langley Simmons (voiceover)
Mildred Simmons
Self
Natasha Simmons
Self
Stephanie Riggio Bulger
Self
John-Paul Simmons
Self (archive footage)
Christine Jorgensen
Self (archive footage)
Pierre Berton
Self (archive footage)

Crew

Ron Davis
Director
Paula Heredia
Editor
Clay Westervelt
Cinematography
Nancy Knox Talcott
Producer
Elik Alvarez
Music

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