Frances Dee
Known For
Acting
Born
1909-11-26 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Died
2004-03-06
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.
Most Known For
Four Star Playhouse
as Rhoda Stroude
June Moon
as Edna Baker
Lux Video Theatre
as Louise
Working Girls
as Louise Adams
Of Human Bondage
as Sally Athelny
Four Faces West
as Fay Hollister
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
Little Women
as Meg
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
Wells Fargo
as Justine Pryor
A Man Betrayed
as Sabra Cameron
I Walked with a Zombie
as Betsy Connell
If I Had a Million
as Mary Wallace (uncredited)
Nice Women
as Jerry Girard
An American Tragedy
as Sondra Finchley
Love Is a Racket
as Mary Wodehouse
Payment on Demand
as Eileen Benson
So Ends Our Night
as Marie Steiner
Becky Sharp
as Amelia Sedley
Souls at Sea
as Margaret Tarryton