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Her final two films before her death from cancer were Fallen and City of Angels. Memoir. In 1993, she wrote a memoir, They Can Kill You But They Can't Eat You, which described her time at Columbia. In the book Steel describes finding out – after giving birth to her daughter – that she was fired as President of Production at Paramount.
When producer Dawn Steel saw potential to pursue more story ideas in Wenders's original concept, she and her husband Charles Roven acquired the rights for an English-language adaptation. After years of delay, they found support from Warner Bros. and recruited Silberling and screenwriter Dana Stevens to execute the project.
Dec 22, 1997 · Dawn Steel, the scrappy, shoot-from-the-hip college dropout who shattered Hollywood’s glass ceiling to become the industry’s first female studio chief, died at Cedars-Sinai Hospital Saturday...
Dec 22, 1997 · Dawn Steel, the first woman to head a major movie studio and who played a prominent role advancing other women to top jobs in Hollywood, died on Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center here....
Steel died December 20, 1997, in Los Angeles, before her final films, Fallen and City of Angels were even released. She was survived by her husband and daughter, and her loss was felt by an entire industry. Further Reading. Steel, Dawn, They Can Kill You, But They Can't Eat You: Lessons from the Front, Pocket Books, 1993.
Dec 23, 1997 · Dec. 23, 1997 12 AM PT. For the many in Hollywood who didn’t know her well, Dawn Steel, who died Saturday of cancer, will undoubtedly be remembered as one of the toughest and meanest executives...
Apr 10, 1998 · 1h 54m. IMDb RATING. 6.7 /10. 128K. YOUR RATING. Rate. POPULARITY. 4,416. 436. Drama Fantasy Romance. An angel on Earth, a doctor unable to believe, a patient with a secret, a love story made in Heaven. Director. Brad Silberling. Writers. Wim Wenders. Peter Handke. Richard Reitinger. Stars. Nicolas Cage. Meg Ryan. Andre Braugher.
