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.
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Acting History
2003
Complicated Women as Self - Interviewee
1988The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind as Self (archive footage)
1982Night of 100 Stars as Self
1954Gypsy Colt as Em MacWade
1953Mister Scoutmaster as Helen Jordan
1952Because of You as Susan Arnold
1952Four Star Playhouse as Rhoda Stroude
1951Reunion in Reno as Mrs. Doris Linaker
1951Payment on Demand as Eileen Benson
1950Lux Video Theatre as Louise
1948Four Faces West as Fay Hollister
1947The Private Affairs of Bel Ami as Marie de Varenne
1945Patrick the Great as Lynn Andrews
1943Happy Land as Agnes Marsh
1943I Walked with a Zombie as Betsy Connell
1942Meet the Stewarts as Candace "Candy" Goodwin
1941Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1 as Herself
1941A Man Betrayed as Sabra Cameron
1941So Ends Our Night as Marie Steiner
1939Coast Guard as Nancy Bliss
1938If I Were King as Katherine de Vaucelles
1937Wells Fargo as Justine Pryor
1937Souls at Sea as Margaret Tarryton
1936Half Angel as Allison Lang
1935The Gay Deception as Mirabel
1935Becky Sharp as Amelia Sedley
1934Of Human Bondage as Sally Athelny
1934Finishing School as Virginia Radcliffe
1934Coming Out Party as Joyce 'Joy' Stanhope
1934Keep 'Em Rolling as Marjorie Deane
1933Little Women as Meg
1933Blood Money as Elaine Talbart
1933One Man's Journey as Joan Stockton
1933Headline Shooter as Jane Mallory
1933The Silver Cord as Hester
1933King of the Jungle as Ann Rogers
1933The Crime of the Century as Doris Brandt
1933Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 as Self
1932If I Had a Million as Mary Wallace (uncredited)
1932The Night of June 13 as Ginger Blake
1932Love Is a Racket as Mary Wodehouse
1932The Strange Case of Clara Deane as Nancy Deane
1932This Reckless Age as Lois Ingals
1931Working Girls as Louise Adams
1931Nice Women as Jerry Girard
1931Rich Man's Folly as Ann Trumbull
1931An American Tragedy as Sondra Finchley
1931Caught as Kate Winslow
1931June Moon as Edna Baker
1930Along Came Youth as Elinor
1930Playboy of Paris as Yvonne Philibert
1930Follow Thru as Woman in Ladies' Locker Room (uncredited)
1930Monte Carlo as Receptionist (uncredited)
1930A Man from Wyoming as Nurse (uncredited)
1930True to the Navy as Girl at Table (uncredited)
1929Words and Music as Co-Ed (uncredited)