No Ordinary Man

Played July 8 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups and available on Amazon Prime Video and various VOD platforms.] Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt's award-winning, fascinating, insightful, informative, in-depth, 83-minute, 2020 biographical documentary that chronicles the career of talented, legendary, iconic, transsexual jazz pianist and saxophonist Billy Tipton (born Dorothy Lucille Tipton), who miraculously managed to keep his female gender a secret for more than fifty years until his death in January 1989, and his band The Billy Tipton Trio and consists of archival photographs and film clips and commentary by musicologist Stephan Pennington, professors Susan Stryker and C. Riley Snorton, talk show host Sally Jessy Raphael [archival], actors (such as Ryan Cassata, Carter Ray, Hennessy Winkler, Scott Turner Schofield, Holden J. Bernstein, Marquise Vilsón, Tyler DiChiara, Ellis David Perry, Zelda Vinciguerra, Skylar Marshallz, and Morgan Sullivan), writers (such as Amos Mac, Thomas Page McBee, and Kate Bornstein), journalist Diane Middlebrook and Suits Me: The Double Life of Bilky Tipton author, filmmaker Chase Joynt, author and educator Jamison Green, artist Zackary Drucker, wife Kathleen "Kitty" Tipton, and Tipton's adopted son William Tipton Jr.
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