Isabel Dawn
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| Born | Isabel Lydia Seitz October 20, 1897 Evansville, Indiana, US |
| Died | June 29, 1966 (aged 68) Woodland Hills, California, US |
Resting place | Forest Lawn Cemetery |
| Occupations | Actress, screenwriter |
Isabel Dawn (born Isabel Lydia Seitz; October 20, 1897 – June 29, 1966) was an American screenwriter, actress, and journalist active primarily in the 1930s and 1940s.
Biography
[edit]Born in Evansville, Indiana,[1] to John Seitz and Viola Wright, Isabel worked at newspapers[2] like The Evansville Courier and The Kokomo Dispatch and attended Valparaiso University before moving to New York City.[3] Around this time, she married her first husband, Thomas Goss.
While in New York City, she and a fellow playwright were hit by a taxi; she spent a good deal of time in the hospital recovering. Her writing partner did not make it.[2]
She appeared in a number of stage plays, radio plays, and films in New York and Los Angeles prior to her 1934 marriage to screenwriter Boyce DeGaw. She and DeGaw collaborated on a number of scripts together[4] before divorcing around 1941.[5] She later married Ray Herr.[6]
Many of her screenplays were written for Republic Pictures; she frequently worked with director Joseph Santley.
She died in Woodland Hills, California, at the age of 66.[6]
Selected filmography
[edit]- If I Had a Million (1932)
- Don't Bet on Blondes (1935)
- The Moon's Our Home (1936)
- Wings Over Honolulu (1937)
- The Girl of the Golden West (1938)
- Behind the News (1940)
- Doctors Don't Tell (1941)
- A Man Betrayed (1941)
- A Tragedy at Midnight (1942)
- Yokel Boy (1942) (a.k.a. Hitting the Headlines)
- Remember Pearl Harbor (1942)
- Goodnight, Sweetheart (1944)
- Give and Take (1946)
References
[edit]- ↑ "Is Visiting Mother". Kokomo Tribune. December 5, 1929. p. 20. Retrieved February 25, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- 1 2 Mayer, Mary (April 19, 1931). "Actress Sells Own Play". Los Angeles Times. p. 47. Retrieved February 25, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Swan, Gilbert (February 3, 1933). "Trails on Broadway". Charleston Daily Mail. p. 6. Retrieved February 25, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Authors Act Scenes". Democrat and Chronicle. Rochester, New York. July 18, 1937. p. 45. Retrieved February 25, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Carroll, Harrison (November 5, 1941). "Behind the Scenes Around Hollywood". Las Cruces Sun-News. Hollywood. Ring Features Syndicate. p. 4. Retrieved February 25, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- 1 2 "Isabel Dawn, 62, Actress, Dies". The Arizona Republic. Woodland Hills, California. UPI. July 1, 1966. p. 65. Retrieved February 25, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
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- 1897 births
- 1966 deaths
- 20th-century American actresses
- 20th-century American women journalists
- Actresses from Indiana
- Journalists from Indiana
- Screenwriters from Indiana
- American women screenwriters
- Valparaiso University alumni
- 20th-century American women writers
- 20th-century American screenwriters
- 20th-century American journalists