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Dawn Steel (August 19, 1946 – December 20, 1997) was the first woman 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. is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born December 18, 1946)[1] is an American film director and producer. ...
Great Neck is a village located in Nassau County, New York in the USA. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 9,538. ...
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Career
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. 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. She became vice president of production in 1980 and production chief in 1985. Steel was the second woman to head a major film production department (the first being Sherry Lansing at Twentieth-Century Fox and the third being Nina Jacobson at Buena Vista). New York University (NYU) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university in New York City. ...
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Paramount Pictures, 1979; see also 1979 in film) is the first feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series and is released on Friday, December 7. ...
Fatal Attraction is a 1987 thriller about a married man who has a weekend affair with a woman who refuses to allow it to end and who becomes obsessed with him. ...
Flashdance is a musical and romance film released in April 1983. ...
Sherry Lansing (born July 31, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois as Sherry Lee Heimann) is the former CEO of Paramount Studios and the first woman to head a major studio. ...
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Nina Jacobson is an American film executive who, until July 2006, was president of the Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. ...
Her production credits from that era include Flashdance, Top Gun, and Fatal Attraction. Flashdance is a musical and romance film released in April 1983. ...
Top Gun is a 1986 American film directed by Tony Scott and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer in association with Paramount Pictures. ...
Fatal Attraction is a 1987 thriller about a married man who has a weekend affair with a woman who refuses to allow it to end and who becomes obsessed with him. ...
In 1987 she became president of Columbia Pictures. Under her tenure the studio released When Harry Met Sally which had been developed and produced independently by Castle Rock productions. 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. The Columbia Pictures logo from 1993 to the present Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. ...
The gate under which Harry meets Sally in the film; located on the campus of the University of Chicago When Harry Met Sally. ...
She left Columbia to found Atlas Entertainment and become an independent producer. Her final two films were Fallen film) and City of Angels (which was dedicated to her memory). This article is about the 1998 film. ...
In 1985 she married film producer Charles Roven with whom she had a daughter.
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).
Dawn Steel succumbed to brain cancer, aged 51, after a 20-month struggle. A brain tumor is any mass created by an abnormal and uncontrolled growth of cells either found in the brain (neurons, glial cells, epithelial cells, myelin producing cells, etc. ...
See also United States Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania (right) is a long-term brain tumor survivor who continues to serve in public office. ...
External links - Eonline
- New York Times biography and complete filmography
- Dawn Steel's Photo & Gravesite
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