Frances Dee
Birthday
1909/11/26
Day of death
2004/03/06 (94 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Also know as
Frances Marion Dee, Frances Dee McCrea, Jean Dee
Biography
Frances Marion Dee (November 26, 1909 – March 6, 2004) was an American screen and television actress. She starred opposite Maurice Chevalier in the early talkie musical Playboy of Paris (1930). She starred in the film An American Tragedy (1931) in a role later recreated by Elizabeth Taylor in the 1951 re-titled remake A Place in the Sun. She also had a prominent role in the classic 1943 Val Lewton psychological horror film I Walked With a Zombie. Dee was the wife of Hollywood star Joel McCrea.
Acting
(1933) Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
as Self
(1941) A Man Betrayed
as Sabra Cameron
(1943) I Walked with a Zombie
as Betsy Connell
(1933) Blood Money
as Elaine Talbart
(1937) Souls at Sea
as Margaret Tarryton
(1935) Becky Sharp
as Amelia Sedley
(1934) Of Human Bondage
as Sally Athelny
(1948) Four Faces West
as Fay Hollister
(1933) Little Women
as Meg
(1935) The Gay Deception
as Mirabel
(1951) Payment on Demand
as Eileen Benson
(1931) An American Tragedy
as Sondra Finchley
(1932) Love Is a Racket
as Mary Wodehouse
(1942) Meet the Stewarts
as Candace "Candy" Goodwin
(1933) The Crime of the Century
as Doris Brandt
(1932) If I Had a Million
as Mary Wallace (uncredited)
(1953) Mister Scoutmaster
as Helen Jordan
(1954) Gypsy Colt
as Em MacWade
(1938) If I Were King
as Katherine de Vaucelles
(1939) Coast Guard
as Nancy Bliss
(1937) Wells Fargo
as Justine Pryor
(1947) The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
as Marie de Varenne
(1932) The Strange Case of Clara Deane
as Nancy Deane
(1933) Headline Shooter
as Jane Mallory
(1945) Patrick the Great
as Lynn Andrews
(1934) Finishing School
as Virginia Radcliffe
(1941) So Ends Our Night
as Marie Steiner
(1952) Because of You
as Susan Arnold
(1933) One Man's Journey
as Joan Stockton
(1943) Happy Land
as Agnes Marsh
(1931) Working Girls
as Louise Adams
(1930) Playboy of Paris
as Yvonne Philibert
(1933) The Silver Cord
as Hester
(2003) Complicated Women
as Self - Interviewee
(1932) The Night of June 13
as Ginger Blake
(1936) Half Angel
as Allison Lang
(1930) Follow Thru
as Woman in Ladies' Locker Room (uncredited)
(1934) Keep 'Em Rolling
as Marjorie Deane
(1932) This Reckless Age
as Lois Ingals
(1930) True to the Navy
as Girl at Table (uncredited)
(1933) King of the Jungle
as Ann Rogers
(1931) Caught
as Kate Winslow
(1941) Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1
as Herself
(1930) Monte Carlo
as Receptionist (uncredited)
(1931) Rich Man's Folly
as Ann Trumbull
(1988) The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
(1951) Reunion in Reno
as Mrs. Doris Linaker
(1931) June Moon
as Edna Baker
(1934) Coming Out Party
as Joyce 'Joy' Stanhope
(1930) Along Came Youth
as Elinor
(1929) Words and Music
as Co-Ed (uncredited)
(1930) A Man from Wyoming
as Nurse (uncredited)
(1931) Nice Women
as Jerry Girard
(1982) Night of 100 Stars
as Self
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Louise
(1952) Four Star Playhouse
as Rhoda Stroude