Dawn Powell

Dawn Powell was born on Nov 28, 1896 in USA. Dawn Powell's big-screen debut came with Hello, Sister! directed by Alan Crosland in 1933.

American novelist and playwright Dawn Powell was born in Mt. GIlead, OH, in 1897. Her mother died when Dawn was a child, and she and her two sisters were sent to live with various relatives while her father traveled out of the area looking for work. In 1909 her father remarried, gathered the family together and moved to his new wife's farm outside of Cleveland, OH. The children, and especially Dawn, were extremely unhappy there; in addition to the farm being in very isolated country--at 12 Dawn had won a scholarship to high school, but there were no high schools in area for her to attend--her stepmother was a very prim and severe woman with very strict ideas of what young girls should and should not do. When she found a sheaf of stories that Dawn had written, she burned them all as punishment. Infuriated, young Dawn--with 30 cents in her pocket--ran away from home.