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, to John Seitz and Viola Wright, Isabel worked at newspapers like '' The Evansville Courier'' and '' The Kokomo Dispatch'' and attended

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before moving to New York City. 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

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. She and DeGaw collaborated on a number of scripts together before divorcing around 1941. She later married Ray Herr. Many of her screenplays were written for

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; she frequently worked with director

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. She died in Woodland Hills, California, at the age of 66.

Selected filmography

* ''

If I Had a Million ''If I Had a Million'' is a 1932 American pre-Code Paramount Studios anthology film starring Gary Cooper, George Raft, Charles Laughton, W. C. Fields, Jack Oakie, Frances Dee and Charlie Ruggles, among others. There were seven directors: ...

'' (1932) * '' Don't Bet on Blondes'' (1935) * ''

The Moon's Our Home ''The Moon's Our Home'' is a 1936 American comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Henry Fonda, Margaret Sullavan and Walter Brennan. It was adapted from a novel of the same name written by Faith Baldwin and first published in se ...

'' (1936) * '' Wings Over Honolulu'' (1937) * '' The Girl of the Golden West'' (1938) * ''

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'' (1940) * '' Doctors Don't Tell'' (1941) * ''A Man Betrayed'' (1941) * ''

A Tragedy at Midnight ''A Tragedy at Midnight'' is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Joseph Santley and written by Isabel Dawn. The film stars John Howard, Margaret Lindsay, Roscoe Karns, Mona Barrie, Keye Luke and Hobart Cavanaugh. The film was released on Feb ...

'' (1942) *''

Yokel Boy ''Yokel Boy'' is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Joseph Santley and written by Isabel Dawn. It is based on the 1939 play ''Yokel Boy'' by Lew Brown. The film stars Albert Dekker, Joan Davis, Eddie Foy Jr., Alan Mowbray, Roscoe Karns and ...

'' (1942) (aka ''Hitting the Headlines'') * ''

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'' (1942) * '' Goodnight, Sweetheart'' (1944) * ''Give and Take'' (1946)

References

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