The Christine Jorgensen Story
- The Christine Jorgensen Story
Infobox Film
name = The Christine Jorgensen Story
image_size = 150px
caption = "The Christine Jorgensen Story" film poster.
director = Irving Rapper
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writer = Robert E. Kent
narrator =
starring = John Hansen
Joan Tompkins
Quinn K. Redeker
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released = 1970
runtime = 98 mins
country = U.S.
language = English
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imdb_id = 0065549
"The Christine Jorgensen Story" is a 1970 biographical movie about transgendered Christine Jorgensen. It was directed by Irving Rapper and based on Christine Jorgensen's autobiography.
George/Christine is played by John Hansen. Although the film attempts a sympathetic depiction of its protagonist, and pleads for sympathy for transsexuals (and for anyone who is "different"), there is also a great deal of sensationalism here, in shrill scenes badly performed by little-known actors. The movie has gone on to achieve a cult movie status.
Among the slogans in the movie's ad campaign was this statement, allegedly made by Jorgensen: "Dresses and dolls were my world as a boy". The film includes an embarrassing and awkward scene in which George Jorgensen, as a boy (Trent Lehman), puts on one of his sister's dresses and smears his mother's lipstick on his face. In fact, the real Christine Jorgensen stated that she never cross-dressed during her boyhood.
ee also
* Transgender in film and television
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