Person Details

Birthday: 1909-11-26 11:01:58

Death: 2004-03-06 11:01:58

Aliases: Frances Marion Dee , Frances Dee McCrea

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

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Movie Involvements: 35

TV Involvements: 1


Most Famous Work

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 Famous Work

Lux Video Theatre
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6

Lux Video Theatre

(1950) Louise
I Walked with a Zombie
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7

I Walked with a Zombie

(1943) Betsy Connell
Of Human Bondage
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6

Of Human Bondage

(1934) Sally Athelny
Little Women
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7

Little Women

(1933) Meg
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
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7

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

(1947) Marie de Varenne
Becky Sharp
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6

Becky Sharp

(1935) Amelia Sedley
Souls at Sea
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6

Souls at Sea

(1937) Margaret Tarryton
An American Tragedy
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6

An American Tragedy

(1931) Sondra Finchley

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2003 Self - Interviewee
1988 (archive footage)
1982 Self
1961 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
1954 Em MacWade
1953 Helen Jordan
1952 Susan Arnold
Rhoda Stroude
1951 Mrs. Doris Linaker
Eileen Benson
1950 Louise
1948 Fay Hollister
1947 Marie de Varenne
1945 Lynn Andrews
1943 Agnes Marsh
Betsy Connell
1942 Candace "Candy" Goodwin
1941 Herself
Sabra Cameron
Marie Steiner
1939 Nancy Bliss
1938 Katherine de Vaucelles
1937 Justine Pryor
Margaret Tarryton
1936 Allison Lang
1935 Mirabel Miller
Amelia Sedley
1934 Sally Athelny
Virginia Radcliffe
Joyce 'Joy' Stanhope
Marjorie Deane
1933 Meg
Elaine Talbart
Joan Stockton
Jane Mallory
Hester
Ann Rogers
Doris Brandt
Self
1932 Mary Wallace (uncredited)
Ginger Blake
Mary Wodehouse
Nancy Deane
Lois Ingals
1931 Louise Adams
Jerry Girard
Ann Trumbull
Sondra Finchley
Kate Winslow
Edna Baker
1930 Elinor
Yvonne Philibert
Womanin Ladies' Locker Room (uncredited)
Receptionist (uncredited)
Nurse (uncredited)
Girl at Table (uncredited)
1929 Co-Ed (uncredited)
Year Character Movie/Tv

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