The Christine Jorgensen Story
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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, 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 (male) childhood.
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