Dawn Steel

Major + Producer

Female

Born Aug 19, 1946

Died Dec 20, 1997

Dawn Steel was one of the first women to run a major Hollywood film studio. She was born as Dawn Spielberg (no relation to Steven Spielberg) in New York City and raised in the suburb Great Neck, Long Island. Her father changed the family name.

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Charles Roven
Married 1985 - 1997
Richard Gere
Dated 1975 - 1978
Martin Scorsese
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"Cnbc Titans" To Return For A Second Season On Thursday, June 23 Rd At 9 Pm Et/Pt Cnbc.Com (Blog)
Google News - Jun 16, 2011

Along the way, he has had his share of known employees, including Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Don Simpson and Dawn Steel, all who have been powerhouses themselves. Not bad for a guy who dropped out of UCLA and started out in the mailroom at the
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Film Producer Laura Ziskin Dies At 61 The Atlantic Wire
Google News - Jun 13, 2011

The award honors a decades of Ziskin's diverse and successful career in the industry: Along with contemporaries that included the late Dawn Steel and Sherry Lansing, Ziskin was part of a generation of showbiz women who braved gender bias to rise to
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Scene Stealer; For Studio Chiefs, The End Of The Revolving Door?
NYTimes - Sep 02, 2007

LOS ANGELES THIS week, on Thursday to be exact, Brad Grey will be entitled to celebrate the 32-month anniversary of his appointment to the top post at Paramount Pictures. Two years and eight months on the job normally isn't much of an occasion. But in Mr. Grey's case -- assuming that he gets that far -- it seems fair to make an exception. For fully
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Universal Plans To Hire Top Executive Of Film Rival
NYTimes - Jan 18, 2007

Universal Pictures has raided 20th Century Fox and hired away the animation executive who oversaw the hit ''Ice Age'' movies, a move intended to fill a void left when Paramount acquired DreamWorks and replaced Universal as distributor of animated films like ''Over the Hedge.'' The executive, Christopher Meledandri, the president of 20th Century Fox
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1946 Birth Born in 1946.

TWENTIES

1975 29 Years Old Dawn Steel attended New York University but did not graduate. She became merchandising director for Penthouse Magazine. In 1975, she founded her own company that produced novelty items such as designer logo toilet paper.

THIRTIES

1978 32 Years Old In 1978, she went to work for Paramount Pictures, where she planned marketing tie-ins for Star Trek: The Motion Picture and was responsible for the making of Fatal Attraction and Flashdance, amongst others.

1980 34 Years Old She became vice president of production in 1980 and production chief in 1985. … Read More

1985 39 Years Old In 1985, she married film producer Charles Roven with whom she had a daughter Rebecca Steel Roven.

FORTIES

1987 41 Years Old She became president of Columbia Pictures in 1987. … Read More

1989 43 Years Old 1 More Event

Steel's brief two-year tenure was marked by continued turmoil and losses, continuing a string of bad news begun under David Putnam before her appointment. She was asked to leave the studio in 1989 and shortly thereafter Coca-Cola spun off the studio and exited the movie business - Columbia was thereafter sold to Sony Corporation of Japan.

1993 47 Years Old In 1993, she told her story in a book titled "They Can Kill You But They Can't Eat You." (ISBN 0-671-73832-1).

FIFTIES

1996 50 Years Old In April 1996, Dawn Steel was diagnosed with a brain tumor. … Read More

1997 51 Years Old Died in 1997.

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