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

Self

Hollywood on Parade No. A-6

Sabra Cameron

A Man Betrayed

Betsy Connell

I Walked with a Zombie

Elaine Talbart

Blood Money

Margaret Tarryton

Souls at Sea

Amelia Sedley

Becky Sharp

Sally Athelny

Of Human Bondage

Fay Hollister

Four Faces West

Meg

Little Women

Mirabel

The Gay Deception

Eileen Benson

Payment on Demand

Sondra Finchley

An American Tragedy

Mary Wodehouse

Love Is a Racket

Candace "Candy" Goodwin

Meet the Stewarts

Doris Brandt

The Crime of the Century

Mary Wallace (uncredited)

If I Had a Million

Helen Jordan

Mister Scoutmaster

Em MacWade

Gypsy Colt

Katherine de Vaucelles

If I Were King

Nancy Bliss

Coast Guard

Justine Pryor

Wells Fargo

Marie de Varenne

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

Nancy Deane

The Strange Case of Clara Deane

Jane Mallory

Headline Shooter

Lynn Andrews

Patrick the Great

Virginia Radcliffe

Finishing School

Marie Steiner

So Ends Our Night

Susan Arnold

Because of You

Joan Stockton

One Man's Journey

Agnes Marsh

Happy Land

Louise Adams

Working Girls

Yvonne Philibert

Playboy of Paris

'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

Hester

The Silver Cord

Self - Interviewee

Complicated Women

Ginger Blake

The Night of June 13

Allison Lang

Half Angel

Woman in Ladies' Locker Room (uncredited)

Follow Thru

Marjorie Deane

Keep 'Em Rolling

Lois Ingals

This Reckless Age

Girl at Table (uncredited)

True to the Navy

Ann Rogers

King of the Jungle

Kate Winslow

Caught

Herself

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1

Receptionist (uncredited)

Monte Carlo

Ann Trumbull

Rich Man's Folly

Self (archive footage)

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

Mrs. Doris Linaker

Reunion in Reno

Edna Baker

June Moon

Joyce 'Joy' Stanhope

Coming Out Party

Elinor

Along Came Youth

Co-Ed (uncredited)

Words and Music

Nurse (uncredited)

A Man from Wyoming

Jerry Girard

Nice Women

Self

Night of 100 Stars

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

55

Gender

Female

Birthday

1909-11-26

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Also Known As

Frances Marion Dee