Misty Dawn
Career
Born Laurie Rose, Dawn performed from 1982 to around 1991 for several Golden Age studios including VCA Pictures and Caballero Home Video. She met John Holmes on an adult-film set in December 1982 and married him on 23 January 1987 at the Little Chapel of the Flowers in Las Vegas; Holmes died of AIDS-related illness on 13 March 1988, thirteen months later. During the marriage the two partnered with Bill Amerson to run Penguin Productions, the company Holmes had founded. Dawn has said publicly that Holmes kept the marriage secret because he was, in her words, "a very private person." She later published his autobiography, Porn King, in 1998, with a revised edition in 2012, and appeared in two documentaries about his life, Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes (1998) and XXXL: The John Holmes Story (2000).
Signature: One of the shortest documented marriages in this field by circumstance rather than choice — thirteen months, ended by her husband's death — followed by decades spent as the primary custodian of his public record.
Index score — The Pornstar Ranked Performer Index v3.0
Scores are normalised within a single ranking's field, so this breakdown is Misty Dawn's placement inside Married Pornstars: Documented Couples, Ranked — the largest field she appears in. Her rank on each of the other 1 ranking below was computed against that ranking's own field and is not the same measurement.
Studios
Beyond performing
- Co-ran Penguin Productions with John Holmes and Bill Amerson
Mainstream credits
- Published John Holmes' autobiography, Porn King (1998; revised 2012)
- Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes (1998, documentary)
- XXXL: The John Holmes Story (2000, documentary)
Official links
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Sources and verification1 source
- No industry award of any kind is documented for her performing career
- Exact end date of her performing career (c. 1991) is approximate
