The Christine Jorgensen Story

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The Christine Jorgensen Story
The Christine Jorgensen Story film poster.
Directed by	Irving Rapper
Written by	Robert E. Kent
Starring	John Hansen Joan Tompkins Quinn K. Redeker
Release date(s)	1970
Running time	98 mins
Country	U.S.
Language	English
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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 boyhood.