Personal Life
Hawks was married three times:
- to Athole Shearer (1928–1940), sister of movie actress Norma Shearer, mother of his daughter Barbara Hawks and son David Hawks;
- to Slim Keith (1941–1949), who was the mother of his daughter, Kitty Hawks, an interior designer; and
- to Dee Hartford (1953–1959), an actress whose real name was Donna Higgins.
His brothers were director/writer Kenneth Neil Hawks and film producer William Bettingger Hawks.
Hawks died on December 26, 1977, aged 81 from complications of a fall several weeks earlier at his home in Palm Springs, California.
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