
Frances Dee
Acting
Born: 1909-11-26 · 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.
🎬 Movies (30)

Complicated Women
2003
Self - Interviewee

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
Self (archive footage)

Night of 100 Stars
1982
Self

Gypsy Colt
1954
Em MacWade

Mister Scoutmaster
1953
Helen Jordan

Because of You
1952
Susan Arnold

Payment on Demand
1951
Eileen Benson

Reunion in Reno
1951
Mrs. Doris Linaker

Four Faces West
1948
Fay Hollister

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
1947
Marie de Varenne

Patrick the Great
1945
Lynn Andrews

I Walked with a Zombie
1943
Betsy Connell

Happy Land
1943
Agnes Marsh

Meet the Stewarts
1942
Candace "Candy" Goodwin

A Man Betrayed
1941
Sabra Cameron

So Ends Our Night
1941
Marie Steiner

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1
1941
Self (uncredited)

Coast Guard
1939
Nancy Bliss

If I Were King
1938
Katherine de Vaucelles

Souls at Sea
1937
Margaret Tarryton

Wells Fargo
1937
Justine Pryor

Half Angel
1936
Allison Lang

Becky Sharp
1935
Amelia Sedley

The Gay Deception
1935
Mirabel

Of Human Bondage
1934
Sally Athelny

Finishing School
1934
Virginia Radcliffe

Keep 'Em Rolling
1934
Marjorie Deane

Coming Out Party
1934
Joyce 'Joy' Stanhope

Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
1933
Self

Blood Money
1933
Elaine Talbart