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.
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.
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.
[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.
[6] Many of her screenplays were written for Republic Pictures; she frequently worked with director Joseph Santley.