Dawn: A Charleston Legend (2022)

Dawn: A Charleston Legend

2022

Documentary

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Ron Davis

Cast

Alexia Jasmene as Dawn Langley Simmons (voiceover)

Christine Jorgensen as Self (archive footage)

Dawn Langley Simmons as Self (archive footage)

John-Paul Simmons as Self (archive footage)

Mildred Simmons as Self

Natasha Simmons as Self

Pierre Berton as Self (archive footage)

Stephanie Riggio Bulger as Self