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Isabel Dawn

{{short description|American actress and screenwriter}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Isabel Dawn

| image = Isabel Dawn (1897–1966).png

| birth_name = Isabel Lydia Seitz

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1897|10|20}}

| birth_place = Evansville, Indiana, US

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1966|6|29|1897|10|20}}

| death_place = Woodland Hills, California, US

| resting_place = Forest Lawn Cemetery

| occupation = 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

Born in Evansville, Indiana,{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kokomo-tribune-is-visiting-mother/166695206/ |title=Is Visiting Mother |newspaper=Kokomo Tribune |page=20 |date=1929-12-05 |access-date=2025-02-25 |via=Newspapers.com}} to John Seitz and Viola Wright, Isabel worked at newspapers{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-actress-sells-own/166695370/ |title=Actress Sells Own Play |first=Mary |last=Mayer |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |page=47 |date=1931-04-19 |access-date=2025-02-25 |via=Newspapers.com}} like The Evansville Courier and The Kokomo Dispatch and attended Valparaiso University before moving to New York City.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-charleston-daily-mail-trails-on-broa/166695511/ |title=Trails on Broadway |first=Gilbert |last=Swan |newspaper=Charleston Daily Mail |page=6 |date=1933-02-03 |access-date=2025-02-25 |via=Newspapers.com}} 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.

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{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/democrat-and-chronicle-authors-act-scene/166695616/ |title=Authors Act Scenes |newspaper=Democrat and Chronicle |publication-place=Rochester, New York |page=45 |date=1937-07-18 |access-date=2025-02-25 |via=Newspapers.com}} before divorcing around 1941.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/las-cruces-sun-news-behind-the-scenes-ar/166695824/ |first=Harrison |last=Carroll |title=Behind the Scenes Around Hollywood |newspaper=Las Cruces Sun-News |place=Hollywood |agency=Ring Features Syndicate |page=4 |date=1941-11-05 |access-date=2025-02-25 |via=Newspapers.com}} She later married Ray Herr.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-arizona-republic-isabel-dawn-62-ac/166695948/ |title=Isabel Dawn, 62, Actress, Dies |newspaper=The Arizona Republic |place=Woodland Hills, California |agency=UPI |page=65 |date=1966-07-01 |access-date=2025-02-25 |via=Newspapers.com}}

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.

Selected filmography

References

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Category:1897 births

Category:1966 deaths

Category:20th-century American actresses

Category:20th-century American women journalists

Category:Actresses from Indiana

Category:Journalists from Indiana

Category:Screenwriters from Indiana

Category:American women screenwriters

Category:Valparaiso University alumni

Category:20th-century American women writers

Category:20th-century American screenwriters

Category:20th-century American journalists