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.
Isabel Dawn | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Biography
editBorn 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.[7]
Selected filmography
edit- Give and Take (1946)
- Goodnight, Sweetheart (1944)
- Remember Pearl Harbor (1942)
- Yokel Boy (1942) (aka Hitting 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. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
- ^ a b "19 Apr 1931, 47 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
- ^ "3 Feb 1933, Page 6 - The Charleston Daily Mail at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
- ^ "18 Jul 1937, Page 45 - Democrat and Chronicle at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
- ^ "5 Nov 1941, Page 4 - Las Cruces Sun-News at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
- ^ "1 Jul 1966, Page 65 - Arizona Republic at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
- ^ "30 Jun 1966, Page 19 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved December 27, 2018.