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Dawn: A Charleston Legend
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Dawn: A Charleston Legend

2022-06-16 · 34 min · ★ 8.0

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.

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Directors
Ron Davis
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Docutainment Films
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Dawn Langley SimmonsSelf (archive footage)
Alexia JasmeneDawn Langley Simmons (voiceover)
Mildred SimmonsSelf
Natasha SimmonsSelf
Stephanie Riggio BulgerSelf
John-Paul SimmonsSelf (archive footage)
Christine JorgensenSelf (archive footage)
Pierre BertonPierre BertonSelf (archive footage)

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