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Aleshia Brevard (December 9, 1937 – July 1, 2017) was an American author and actress of stage, screen, and television. She worked as an entertainer, actress, model, Playboy bunny , professor of theater, and author.
Aleshia Brevard (1937-2017) was an American actress, singer and transgender woman who performed as Marilyn Monroe in San Francisco. She appeared in TV shows and movies such as Legends of the Superheroes, Bigfoot and The Female Bunch.
Mar 4, 2021 · Aleshia Brevard’s “The Woman I was Not Born to Be” is the best trans memoir I’ve encountered. “It was about who I was, about the boy I was presumed to be. I’d been subjected to...
Nov 20, 2017 · Aleshia Brevard's story fits the standard narrative of the young gender rebel who leaves her small-town southern home to find community and affirmation.
Jul 24, 2017 · Aleshia Brevard, who has died aged 79, was an actress, model and writer and one of the first men to undergo transitional surgery in America during the early 1960s. Buxom yet elegant, she based her look on the classic Hollywood blondes Jean Harlow, Lana Turner and Marilyn Monroe.
Aleshia Brevard. Actress: Legends of the Superheroes. Born to James Upshaw Crenshaw (a gentleman farmer and city clerk) and his wife, Mozelle Gillentine (a nurse), Brevard graduated from high school and college in Tennessee and later hitchhiked to San Francisco, California, becoming a headline performer at the famous "drag club", Finnocios, ...
May 14, 2023 · The Woman I Was Not Born To Be: A Transsexual Journey. By Aleshia Brevard, 2001. Told with humour and flair, this is the autobiography of one transsexual’s wild ride from boyhood as Alfred Brevard (Buddy) Crenshaw in rural Tennessee to voluptuous female entertainer in Hollywood.
