Dawn: A Charleston Legend

Jun 16, 2022

0h 34m

★ 8.0

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.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Docutainment Films

Dawn: A Charleston Legend Trailers

Cast

Self (archive footage)

Dawn Langley Simmons

Dawn Langley Simmons (voiceover)

Alexia Jasmene

Self

Mildred Simmons

Self

Natasha Simmons

Self

Stephanie Riggio Bulger

Self (archive footage)

John-Paul Simmons

Self (archive footage)

Christine Jorgensen

Self (archive footage)

Pierre Berton

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