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Frances Dee

Frances Dee

Birthday: 1909-11-26 | Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2003
Complicated Women

as    Self - Interviewee

1988
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

as    Self (archive footage)

1954
Gypsy Colt

as    Em MacWade

1948
Four Faces West

as    Fay Hollister

1947
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

as    Marie de Varenne

1943
Happy Land

as    Agnes Marsh

1943
I Walked with a Zombie

as    Betsy Connell

1941
So Ends Our Night

as    Marie Steiner

1941
A Man Betrayed

as    Sabra Cameron

1939
Coast Guard

as    Nancy Bliss

1938
If I Were King

as    Katherine de Vaucelles

1937
Wells Fargo

as    Justine Pryor

1937
Souls at Sea

as    Margaret Tarryton

1935
Becky Sharp

as    Amelia Sedley

1934
Of Human Bondage

as    Sally Athelny

1934
Finishing School

as    Virginia Radcliffe

1933
King of the Jungle

as    Ann Rogers

1933
The Crime of the Century

as    Doris Brandt

1933
Blood Money

as    Elaine Talbart

1933
Headline Shooter

as    Jane Mallory

1933
Little Women

as    Meg

1932
This Reckless Age

as    Lois Ingals

1931
An American Tragedy

as    Sondra Finchley

1930
A Man from Wyoming

as    Nurse (uncredited)

1930
Playboy of Paris

as    Yvonne Phillbert