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<i>The Dawn Fraser Story</i>

The Dawn Fraser Story

1964 Australian film

The Dawn Fraser Story is a 1964 documentary film about the 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.[2] It is one of the few Australian documentary films of the time to be directed by a woman.[3] It was made by the short lived Waratah Film Productions.[4]

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Filming began in August 1964.[5]

While filming at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Cavill suffered a heart attack.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    Nan Musgrove (16 December 1964). "What makes Dawn tick?". The Australian Women's Weekly. p. 19. Retrieved 20 December 2014 – via Trove.
  2. [2]
    "Dawn sets the record straight". The Australian. 1 June 2001. p. 3. Retrieved 9 January 2012 – via Trove.
  3. [3]
    David Stratton (1980). The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival. Angus & Robertson. p. 111.
  4. [4]
    "Lee Robinson" (Oral history). Interviewed by Graham Shirley. National Film and Sound Archive. 15 August 1976.[dead link]
    - Vagg, Stephen (6 May 2023). "Forgotten Australian TV Series: Adventure Unlimited". Filmink.
  5. [5]
    "Double helping of Project '64". The Canberra Times. 21 December 1964. p. 23. Retrieved 20 December 2014 – via Trove.
  6. [6]
    Pat Gillespie (May 1990). "Joy Cavill". Cinema Papers. p. 79.



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