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

So Ends Our Night as Marie Steiner
A Man Betrayed as Sabra Cameron
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

Of Human Bondage as Sally Athelny
Finishing School as Virginia Radcliffe
Coming Out Party as Joyce 'Joy' Stanhope
Keep 'Em Rolling as Marjorie Deane

1933

Little Women as Meg
The Silver Cord as Hester
Headline Shooter as Jane Mallory
The Crime of the Century as Doris Brandt
Blood Money as Elaine Talbart
One Man's Journey as Joan Stockton
King of the Jungle as Ann Rogers
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 as Self

1932

If I Had a Million as Mary Wallace
Love is a Racket as Mary Wodehouse
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
An American Tragedy as Sondra Finchley
Caught as Kate Winslow
June Moon as Edna Baker
Rich Man's Folly as Ann Trumbull

1930

Monte Carlo as Receptionist (uncredited)
Follow Thru as Woman in Ladies' Locker Room (uncredited)
A Man from Wyoming as Nurse (uncredited)
True to the Navy as Girl at Table (uncredited)
Along Came Youth as Elinor
Playboy of Paris as Yvonne Philibert

1929

Words and Music as Co-Ed (uncredited)