- 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'.
- Her daughter was Hazel Dawn Jr. .
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