Isabel Dawn
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 |
Occupation(s) | Actress, screenwriter |
Isabel Dawn(bornIsabel 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]likeThe Evansville CourierandThe Kokomo Dispatchand attendedValparaiso Universitybefore 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 screenwriterBoyce 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 forRepublic Pictures;she frequently worked with directorJoseph Santley.
She died in Woodland Hills, California, at the age of 66.[7]
Selected filmography
[edit]- Give and Take(1946)
- Goodnight, Sweetheart(1944)
- Remember Pearl Harbor(1942)
- Yokel Boy(1942) (akaHitting the Headlines)
- A Tragedy at Midnight(1942)
- Doctors Don't Tell(1941)
- A Man Betrayed(1941)
- Behind the News(1940)
- The Girl of the Golden West(1938)
- Wings Over Honolulu(1937)
- The Moon's Our Home(1936)
- Don't Bet on Blondes(1935)
- If I Had a Million(1932)
References
[edit]- ^"5 Dec 1929, Page 20 - The Kokomo Tribune at Newspapers.com".Newspapers.com.RetrievedDecember 27,2018.
- ^ab"19 Apr 1931, 47 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com".Newspapers.com.RetrievedDecember 27,2018.
- ^"3 Feb 1933, Page 6 - The Charleston Daily Mail at Newspapers.com".Newspapers.com.RetrievedDecember 27,2018.
- ^"18 Jul 1937, Page 45 - Democrat and Chronicle at Newspapers.com".Newspapers.com.RetrievedDecember 27,2018.
- ^"5 Nov 1941, Page 4 - Las Cruces Sun-News at Newspapers.com".Newspapers.com.RetrievedDecember 27,2018.
- ^"1 Jul 1966, Page 65 - Arizona Republic at Newspapers.com".Newspapers.com.RetrievedDecember 27,2018.
- ^"30 Jun 1966, Page 19 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch at Newspapers.com".Newspapers.com.RetrievedDecember 27,2018.
- 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