Frances Dee

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1909-11-26 (95 years old)

Deathday

2004-03-06

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Frances 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

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

1935

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

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

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

1961

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

as 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)

2003

Complicated Women

as Self - Interviewee

1933

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

1930

Monte Carlo

as Receptionist (uncredited)

1931

Rich Man's Folly

as Ann Trumbull

1988

1951

Reunion in Reno

as Mrs. Doris Linaker

1931

June Moon

as Edna Baker

1934

Coming Out Party

as Joyce 'Joy' Stanhope

1930

A Man from Wyoming

as Nurse (uncredited)

1929

Words and Music

as Co-Ed (uncredited)

1930

1931

Nice Women

as Jerry Girard

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