Academy Award wining actress Ruth Gordon(Rosemary's Baby, 1968)
described Dawn as her childhood idol and the motivating force for her
own decision to become an actress.
Was once the mascot of both the U.S. Army and Navy at one of their annual football games. Dwight D. Eisenhower was one of the West Point cadets in attendance.
Died at her daughter's home in Manhattan, New York City, at the age of 98.
Was devoutly Mormon.
She retired after she married a very wealthy mining engineer.
At the start of her career she changed her name to Dawn on the advice
of a producer.
Her parents were American missionaries in Wales.
After the death of her husband in 1941, she worked in the casting department of the J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency until her retirement in the mid-1960's.
Apparently, she derived her stage name via the producer Ivan Caryll, whom she reminded of the dawn, being 'young, fresh and pink'.