- Born
- Birth nameMervelyn Sugar Steinberg
- Sugar Dawn was born on November 14, 1931 in San Francisco, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Riding the Sunset Trail (1941), Dynamite Canyon (1941) and Arizona Roundup (1942). She was previously married to Loren Tower.
- SpouseLoren Tower(1965 - 1997) (his death, 1 child)
- Bay Area, California
- We had lots of fun on those pictures. It wasn't like work or making movies, it was like playing, like make-believe. It was wonderful!
- Universal was going to write in a part for me in Destry Rides Again (1939), but I had a pony at stables run by Victor McLaglen. I fell off the pony and got a case of poison ivy. That kept me out of 'Destry'.
- [on starting riding at a young age] I started on a mule at the San Francisco zoo. My father put me on it all the time - I could ride very early, even before I could walk! We moved to the peninsula so I could have a pony, and my father could have a horse. His horse was 17½ hands - and I rode that horse, too. I rode my pony Chiquita in horse shows at age 4 to 5, doing exhibitions, tricks. I put Chiquita through her paces. Taught her lots of tricks.
- I am a natural born ham, so I never had any acting lessons - I had performed since I was a small kid, so it all came naturally to me.
- I was raised on the peninsula, thirty miles south of San Francisco. It wasn't really rural, but there were open spaces, and horses. In those days, I even rode my pony to school.
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