Isabel Dawn

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]

• 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) (aka Hitting the Headlines)
• Remember Pearl Harbor (1942)
• Goodnight, Sweetheart (1944)
• Give and Take (1946)