Frances Dee
Born: 1909-11-26 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Died: 2004-03-06
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
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
1954
- Gypsy Colt as Em MacWade
1953
- Mister Scoutmaster as Helen Jordan
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Rhoda Stroude
- Because of You as Susan Arnold
1951
- Payment on Demand as Eileen Benson
- Reunion in Reno as Mrs. Doris Linaker
1950
- Lux Video Theatre as Louise
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
- Happy Land as Agnes Marsh
1942
- Meet the Stewarts as Candace "Candy" Goodwin
1941
- A Man Betrayed as Sabra Cameron
- So Ends Our Night as Marie Steiner
- Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1 as Self (uncredited)
1939
- Coast Guard as Nancy Bliss
1938
- If I Were King as Katherine de Vaucelles
1937
- Wells Fargo as Justine Pryor
- Souls at Sea as Margaret Tarryton
1936
- Half Angel as Allison Lang
1935
- Becky Sharp as Amelia Sedley
- The Gay Deception as Mirabel
1934
- Finishing School as Virginia Radcliffe
- Of Human Bondage as Sally Athelny
- Keep 'Em Rolling as Marjorie Deane
- Coming Out Party as Joyce 'Joy' Stanhope
1933
- Little Women as Meg
- Blood Money as Elaine Talbart
- The Silver Cord as Hester
- One Man's Journey as Joan Stockton
- Headline Shooter as Jane Mallory
- Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 as Self
- King of the Jungle as Ann Rogers
- The Crime of the Century as Doris Brandt
1932
- Love is a Racket as Mary Wodehouse
- If I Had a Million as Mary Wallace
- The Night of June 13 as Ginger Blake
- This Reckless Age as Lois Ingals
- The Strange Case of Clara Deane as Nancy Deane
1931
- Working Girls as Louise Adams
- Nice Women as Jerry Girard
- June Moon as Edna Baker
- An American Tragedy as Sondra Finchley
- Rich Man's Folly as Ann Trumbull
- Caught as Kate Winslow
1930
- Follow Thru as Woman in Ladies' Locker Room (uncredited)
- A Man from Wyoming as Nurse (uncredited)
- Monte Carlo as Receptionist (uncredited)
- Playboy of Paris as Yvonne Philibert
- Along Came Youth as Elinor
- True to the Navy as Girl at Table (uncredited)
1929
- Words and Music as Co-Ed (uncredited)