Misty Dawn (born May 15, 1963 in Albuquerque, NM) is the pseudonym of adult video performer Laurie Rose.
Laurie Rose was married to the late adult video star John Holmes from 1987 until his death from complications from AIDS on March 13, 1988. According to those who worked with her, the 5'2", 100-pound Rose looked far younger and would often dress to accentuate her youthful appearance in many of her numerous "loops" and 61 credited feature films. She was considered by many to be the anal sex queen of the adult film industry in her time.
According to porn journalist Luke Ford, the first time Rose met Holmes was in December, 1982 on the film set for the porn feature film Marathon in San Francisco soon after he was released from jail in connection with the Wonderland Murders, which involved the brutal quadruple slaying of the widely feared Wonderland Gang.
For a brief time in the mid-1980s, she and her husband John Holmes were in business with Bill Amerson in an adult film company known as Penquin Productions. The Holmeses also lived at Amerson's mansion in the hills of Sherman Oaks. (Holmes was godfather to Amerson's children).
In 1998, Laurie Rose-Holmes released the John Holmes autobiography, Porn King. In 2012 Porn King was re-published by Bear Manor Media. The book has been revised with added Material and Photos. ISBN 1-59393-685-0
In 1998, she also appeared in the documentary, Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes.
In 1999, Rose made a return to adult films after a 15-year retirement. She returned again in 2003 in the film Voyer Vision.
Laurie Rose-Holmes is one of twenty-five women of the golden era of adult films to be featured in the forthcoming 2012 book by John Holmes: A Life Measured in Inches co-author Jill C. Nelson titled: Golden Goddesses: 25 Legendary Women of Classic Erotic Cinema, 1968-1985.
Famous quotes containing the words misty and/or dawn:
“They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.”
—Ernest Christopher Dowson (1867–1900)
“Fair Hope! our earlier Heaven! by thee
Young Time is taster to Eternity.
The generous wine with age grows strong, not sour,
Nor need we kill thy fruit to smell thy flower.
Thy golden head never hangs down
Till in the lap of Love’s full noon
It falls and dies: Oh no, it melts away
As doth the dawn into the day,
As lumps of sugar lose themselves, and twine
Their subtle essence with the soul of wine.”
—Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)