Dawn: A Charleston Legend
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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Dawn Langley Simmons
Self (archive footage)
Alexia Jasmene
Dawn Langley Simmons (voiceover)
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all the words but the one
(Zero, Infinity)
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)
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Ron Davis Director · Paula Heredia Editor
United States release June 16, 2022
Production
Docutainment Films
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · June 16, 2022
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