Frances Dee
ActingFrances 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
Night of 100 Stars
Self
Little Women
Meg
Of Human Bondage
Sally Athelny
Wells Fargo
Justine Pryor
I Walked with a Zombie
Betsy Connell
Souls at Sea
Margaret Tarryton
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
If I Were King
Katherine de Vaucelles
Gypsy Colt
Em MacWade
If I Had a Million
Mary Wallace (uncredited)
Filmography — Acting
Night of 100 Stars
Self
Little Women
Meg
Of Human Bondage
Sally Athelny
Wells Fargo
Justine Pryor
I Walked with a Zombie
Betsy Connell
Souls at Sea
Margaret Tarryton
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
If I Were King
Katherine de Vaucelles
Gypsy Colt
Em MacWade
If I Had a Million
Mary Wallace (uncredited)
Four Faces West
Fay Hollister
The Gay Deception
Mirabel
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
Marie de Varenne
Because of You
Susan Arnold
Follow Thru
Woman in Ladies' Locker Room (uncredited)
Happy Land
Agnes Marsh
Coast Guard
Nancy Bliss
The Night of June 13
Ginger Blake
Payment on Demand
Eileen Benson
Becky Sharp
Amelia Sedley
A Man Betrayed
Sabra Cameron
Working Girls
Louise Adams
Complicated Women
Self - Interviewee
Half Angel
Allison Lang
Finishing School
Virginia Radcliffe
Monte Carlo
Receptionist (uncredited)
So Ends Our Night
Marie Steiner
Caught
Kate Winslow
Blood Money
Elaine Talbart
King of the Jungle
Ann Rogers
Love is a Racket
Mary Wodehouse
Mister Scoutmaster
Helen Jordan
Patrick the Great
Lynn Andrews
An American Tragedy
Sondra Finchley
Meet the Stewarts
Candace "Candy" Goodwin
The Crime of the Century
Doris Brandt
Coming Out Party
Joyce 'Joy' Stanhope
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1
Self (uncredited)
Along Came Youth
Elinor
Words and Music
Co-Ed (uncredited)
One Man's Journey
Joan Stockton
The Silver Cord
Hester
A Man from Wyoming
Nurse (uncredited)
True to the Navy
Girl at Table (uncredited)
The Strange Case of Clara Deane
Nancy Deane
Rich Man's Folly
Ann Trumbull
Headline Shooter
Jane Mallory
Nice Women
Jerry Girard
This Reckless Age
Lois Ingals
Playboy of Paris
Yvonne Philibert
June Moon
Edna Baker
Keep 'Em Rolling
Marjorie Deane
Reunion in Reno
Mrs. Doris Linaker
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
Self