Hazel Dawn
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| Born |
Hazel Tout March 23, 1891 Ogden, Utah, U.S. |
| Died | August 23, 1988 (aged 97) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Other names | The Pink Lady |
| Years active | 1914-1954 |
| Spouse(s) | Edward Gruelle (1927 - 1941; widowed); 2 children |
Hazel Dawn (March 23, 1891, Ogden, Utah – August 28, 1988, New York, New York) was a stage, film and television actress. She was born as Hazel Tout to a Mormon family.
Dawn was a member of the original Ziegfeld Follies in 1907. She went to Wales with her family at the age of eight when her father served as a Mormon missionary there. Dawn studied violin and voice in London, England, Paris, France, and Munich, Germany. She was especially impressed by the attentiveness of teachers she studied under in Paris. Her sister, Nancy Tout, was an opera singer and went on to sing with the Opera Comique in Paris.
She met producer Ivan Caryll at a party in London. Caryll suggested the name Hazel Dawn, considering Tout to be impossible. Dawn met composer Paul Rubens who offered her a part in Dear Little Denmark at the Prince of Wales Theatre (1909), where she made her theatrical début. She then starred in The Balkan Princess in 1910 as Olga. She achieved a great success with her performance in Ivan Caryll's The Pink Lady (1911). The show ran for a year on Broadway and then toured, making Dawn famous, even though she was not the leading lady. In the production she introduced My Beautiful Lady, which she sang and played on her violin. Subsequently she was known as "The Pink Lady" and the cocktail may have been named for her.
The Little Cafe (1913) was produced by the New Amsterdam Theatre and adapted from a book by C.M.S. McLellan. One reviewer found the play lacking when compared to The Pink Lady, but he enjoyed the song, Just Because It's You. Dawn performed it in the third act. He wrote: Dawn was radiantly beautiful and sang far better than did other members of the cast. The Little Cafe was a place in Paris where large crowds assembled to admire the renowned beauty of the owner's daughter.
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