Career
She retired from acting in 1944, at the age of 26. She remained in Los Angeles, where she died at the age of 75. Born as Dawn Evelyeen Paris, in New York City, she began acting under the name of Dawn O"Day.
As a baby she began modeling, and made her film debut with a featured role in 1922"s Moonshine Valley.
She began acting at the age of five, and had a highly successful child star career in Pre-Code movies, appearing in such films as the 1930 version of Liliom, Tom Mix"s Riders of the Purple Sage, So Big, Three on a Match and Rasputin and the Empress. In 1934 she starred as the character of Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables, and took that character"s name as her stage name.
Later roles were in such movies as Vigil in the Night, Anne of Windy Poplars, The Devil and Daniel Webster and Murder, My Sweet, her final film. Of her portrayal in Saturday"s Children, The New York Times commented that she "endows the little wife with heroic integrity and strength of character.".