Frances Dee
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1909-11-26
Day of Death
2004-03-06 (94 years old)
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.
Known For
Acting
(2003)
Complicated Women
as Self - Interviewee
(1988)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
(1982)
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
(1961)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1954)
Gypsy Colt
as Em MacWade
(1953)
Mister Scoutmaster
as Helen Jordan
(1952)
Because of You
as Susan Arnold
(1951)
Payment on Demand
as Eileen Benson
(1951)
Reunion in Reno
as Mrs. Doris Linaker
(1948)
Four Faces West
as Fay Hollister
(1947)
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
as Marie de Varenne
(1945)
Patrick the Great
as Lynn Andrews
(1943)
I Walked with a Zombie
as Betsy Connell
(1943)
Happy Land
as Agnes Marsh
(1942)
Meet the Stewarts
as Candace "Candy" Goodwin
(1941)
A Man Betrayed
as Sabra Cameron
(1941)
So Ends Our Night
as Marie Steiner
(1941)
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1
as Herself
(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
(1936)
Half Angel
as Allison Lang
(1935)
The Gay Deception
as Mirabel
(1935)
Becky Sharp
as Amelia Sedley
(1934)
Of Human Bondage
as Sally Athelny
(1934)
Finishing School
as Virginia Radcliffe
(1934)
Coming Out Party
as Joyce 'Joy' Stanhope
(1934)
Keep 'Em Rolling
as Marjorie Deane
(1933)
Little Women
as Meg
(1933)
Blood Money
as Elaine Talbart
(1933)
King of the Jungle
as Ann Rogers
(1933)
The Crime of the Century
as Doris Brandt
(1933)
The Silver Cord
as Hester
(1933)
Headline Shooter
as Jane Mallory
(1933)
One Man's Journey
as Joan Stockton
(1933)
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
as Self
(1932)
If I Had a Million
as Mary Wallace (uncredited)
(1932)
Love Is a Racket
as Mary Wodehouse
(1932)
The Strange Case of Clara Deane
as Nancy Deane
(1932)
The Night of June 13
as Ginger Blake
(1932)
This Reckless Age
as Lois Ingals
(1931)
An American Tragedy
as Sondra Finchley
(1931)
Caught
as Kate Winslow
(1931)
Working Girls
as Louise Adams
(1931)
Rich Man's Folly
as Ann Trumbull
(1931)
June Moon
as Edna Baker
(1931)
Nice Women
as Jerry Girard
(1930)
Monte Carlo
as Receptionist (uncredited)
(1930)
Follow Thru
as Woman in Ladies' Locker Room (uncredited)
(1930)
Along Came Youth
as Elinor
(1930)
Playboy of Paris
as Yvonne Philibert
(1930)
True to the Navy
as Girl at Table (uncredited)
(1930)
A Man from Wyoming
as Nurse (uncredited)
(1929)
Words and Music
as Co-Ed (uncredited)