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HBO’s ‘The Lady and the Dale’ follows the rise and fall of a trans maverick and outlaw
Zackary Drucker promises amazing twists and turns in the incredible true story of Geraldine Elizabeth Carmichael
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Geraldine Elizabeth Carmichael was convinced 1975 would be the year of the Dale. The maverick businesswoman was sure her radical three-wheeled, energy-efficient car would revolutionize the auto industry and solve the raging oil crisis.
A brazen capitalist of the highest order, Carmichael wouldn’t be deterred by her lack of experience in manufacturing and selling cars, nor intimidated by interference from the Big 3 automakers in Detroit. And she wouldn’t be discouraged by the fact that she was a transgender woman in a prejudiced and intolerant world. But, eventually, Liz Carmichael would
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1/31/2021
Car entrepreneur, lifelong scammer and trans pioneer Elizabeth Carmichael is profiled in a four-part HBO bio-doc produced by the Duplass brothers.
Throughout her long, madcap and utterly singular life, Elizabeth Carmichael boasted a talent for remaking reality. Carmichael had little use for the way things were not when it came to her body, nor to America’s ailing car industry of the 1970s. Her knack for making the world see things her way led her to pursue a gender transition in the late ‘60s, seemingly with no other trans people around to give support or advice. A decade later, that same force of will led to her highly publicized claim that she would create and mass-produce a three-wheeled, fuel-efficient car that would save the country from the oil crisis a pipe dream that helped her bilk millions from investors.
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