The Dawn Fraser Story
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Duration Language English | Country Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Director Joy Cavill
Lee Robinson Release date 14 December 1964 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Dawn Fraser Story is a 1964 documentary film about Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser. It was made by Joy Cavill, who later made a feature film about Fraser, Dawn! (1979), and had a romantic relationship with her. It is one of the few Australian documentary films of the time to be directed by a woman.
Filming began in August 1964.
While filming at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Cavill suffered a heart attack.
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The Dawn Fraser Story Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA
The Dawn Fraser Story IMDb