1. Hazel Dawn was born to a Mormon family in Utah, and studied music in Europe where her father was a missionary.
25 Facts About Hazel Dawn
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Hazel Dawn performed extensively on Broadway and began work in film in 1914, appearing in a total of 13 feature films.
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Dawn was born Henrietta Hazel Tout in Ogden, Utah, in 1890.
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Hazel Dawn went to Wales with her family at the age of eight when her father served as a Mormon missionary there.
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Hazel Dawn studied violin and voice in London, Paris, and Munich.
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Hazel Dawn especially was impressed by the attentiveness of teachers she studied under in Paris.
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Hazel Dawn's sister, Nancy Tout, was an opera singer who sang with the Opera-Comique in Paris.
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Hazel Dawn met producer Ivan Caryll at a party in London.
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Hazel Dawn met composer Paul Rubens, who offered her a part in Dear Little Denmark at the Prince of Wales Theatre, where she made her theatrical debut.
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Hazel Dawn then starred in The Balkan Princess in 1910 as Olga.
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Hazel Dawn achieved a great success with her performance in Ivan Caryll's Edwardian musical comedy, The Pink Lady.
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Hazel Dawn starred in the operetta The Debutante at the National Theater in Washington, DC under the management of John C Fisher.
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The setting of the operetta is in London and Paris, and Hazel Dawn played a young American girl pursued by a nobleman, who desires her fortune.
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Hazel Dawn plays the violin during a scene where she runs away to Paris and makes her musical debut before an appreciative audience.
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Hazel Dawn emerged from retirement in June 1948 to appear on stage with her daughter Hazel Dawn Jr.
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Hazel Dawn made her screen debut as Kate Shipley in One of Our Girls.
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Hazel Dawn followed this role with others in Niobe, Clarissa, and The Masqueraders.
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Hazel Dawn made The Fatal Card with Paramount Pictures.
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In My Lady Incog, Hazel Dawn played a female detective in a movie that is a mystery film, comedy, and a romance.
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Hazel Dawn married Charles Edward Gruwell, a mining engineer from Montana, in 1927.
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Hazel Dawn's daughter had a career as an actor and singer on film, television and Broadway under the name Hazel Dawn Jr.
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Hazel Dawn made a claim for $4,643 against the London Theatre Company, which filed for bankruptcy in August 1915.
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Hazel Dawn was once the mascot of both the US Military Academy and the US Naval Academy at one of their annual football games.
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Hazel Dawn died at the home of her daughter in Manhattan in 1988 at age 98.
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In 1953, Hazel Dawn was portrayed by Kay Williams in the film The Actress.