Misty Dawn

Dawn was born Laurie Rose on May 15, 1963, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Dawn began performing in adult films in 1982, at age 19, and continued until about 1991.{{iafd name|id=MDawn|gender=female|name=Misty Dawn}} She was often featured in anal sex scenes where she excelled. {{Cite news |last=McLean |first=Gareth |date=2003-09-11 |title=In at the deep end |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/sep/11/broadcasting.tvandradio |access-date=2024-05-29 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}} After taking a 15-year hiatus, she returned as a fluffer in The World's Biggest Gang Bang III – The Houston 620 (1999).{{cite news |title=Full Credits: Cast and Crew |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0233891/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ql_1|work=The World's Biggest Gang Bang III - The Houston 620|date=1999}} She also appeared in Voyer Vision (2003). Over the course of her career Dawn worked for the Golden Age production companies Beate Uhse, Caballero Home Video, Filmco Releases, Gourmet Video Collection, VCA Pictures, and VCX.

As Laurie Holmes, she appeared in multiple documentaries about "Johnny Wadd" Holmes and the adult film industry, including: Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes (1998),{{cite book|last1=Staff|title=Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes (1999) 105 min - Documentary, Adult, Biography - 12 January 2001 (USA)|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0207195/?ref_=nm_flmg_slf_6|website=IMDB.com|publisher=Amazon|accessdate=5 September 2014}} The Other Hollywood (1999), XXXL: The John Holmes Story (2000), and John Holmes: The Man, the Myth, the Legend (2004).{{IMDb name|0206029|Misty Dawn}}

For a brief time in the mid-1980s, she and Holmes partnered with Bill Amerson in an adult film company known as Penguin Productions. The couple also lived in Amerson's mansion in the hills of Sherman Oaks. Johnny Wadd Holmes was godfather to Amerson's children.{{cite book |title= John Holmes: A Life Measured in Inches |author1=Jennifer Sugar |author2=Jill C. Nelson |date=8 August 2008 |publisher= BearManor Media |isbn= 9781593933029}}

Dawn, using her legal married name, Laurie Holmes, posthumously released Holmes' memoir, Porn King: The Autobiography of John C. Holmes (1998).{{cite book|author1=Holmes, John C. |author2=Basten, Fred E. |title=Porn King: The Autobiography of John C. Holmes|date=June 1, 1998|publisher=Johnny Wadd, Inc.|location=Albuquerque, NM|isbn=1880047691}} In 2012, BearManor Media published a revised edition of Porn King, which included added material and photos.{{cite book|author1=Holmes, John C. |author2=Holmes, Laurie |title=Porn King: The Autobiography of John C. Holmes |date=2012|publisher=BearManor Media|location=Albany|isbn=978-1593936853|edition=Revised}}

Holmes stopped making adult films in the early 1980s. According to Dawn, "John thought one porn person in the family was enough. And the AIDS thing was just starting to come out. Nobody had gotten it yet, but it was still in the back of our minds. He thought, ‘Well, if I’m going to take a chance, that’s enough.'"{{cite book|title=Porn King: The Autobiography of John C. Holmes|date=31 January 2012|publisher=BearManor Media|edition=Revised|author1=John Curtis Holmes |author2=Laurie Holmes |isbn=978-1-59393-685-3}}

Dawn was married to the adult film star John "The Wadd" Holmes from January 23, 1987, until his death on March 13, 1988, during which time he was stepfather to her young son.{{cite book |author1=Sugar, Jennifer |author2=Nelson, Jill C. |url= http://www.johnholmesinches.com |title= John Holmes, A Life Measured in Inches |publisher= BearManor Media |isbn=978-1-59393-302-9 |date=2008 |id= (restricted-access site) }}

According to Dawn, they first met in December 1982 on the set of a film they were working on together in San Francisco, entitled Marathon. (Mike Sager reports the 19-year-old first met Holmes on the set of Fleshpond, though they didn't work together on that film.{{cite magazine|magazine=Rolling Stone|title=The Devil and John Holmes|url=http://longform.org/stories/the-devil-and-john-holmes|author=Sager, Mike|date=May 1989|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150917214413/http://longform.org/stories/the-devil-and-john-holmes|archivedate=2015-09-17}}) They remained close, and in 1987, five years after Holmes was arrested then released from jail in connection with the Wonderland Murders, they married in Las Vegas, at the Little Chapel of the Flowers, after Holmes had confided to her that he had AIDS.{{cite book|last=Basten|first=Fred |author2=Laurie Holmes |author3=John C. Holmes|title=Porn King: The John Holmes Story|year=1998|publisher=John Holmes Inc.|isbn=1-880047-69-1}} The wedding, at which Laurie wore white, was an ordeal for John who was ill, knew he was dying, and realized he and Laurie would not have much of a life together. According to Dawn, "John kept the marriage secret ... because he was a very private person. Thus, when he died, many acquaintances in the industry and journalists reporting on his death were surprised to learn that we were married."

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