Frances Dee

Actor Nov 26 (died age 94) Los Angeles, California, USA 1929–2003 (74 year career)

6.2 avg rating

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

Film

I Walked with a Zombie

Betsy Connell

Film

Little Women

Meg

Film

Of Human Bondage

Sally Athelny

Film

If I Had a Million

Mary Wallace (uncredited)

Film

Monte Carlo

Receptionist (uncredited)

Film

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

Marie de Varenne

Film

Payment on Demand

Eileen Benson

Film

Becky Sharp

Amelia Sedley

Filmography

Acting (56)

Movies (54)

Complicated Women

2003

as Self - Interviewee

6.7

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

1988

as Self (archive footage)

Night of 100 Stars

as Self

Gypsy Colt

as Em MacWade

Mister Scoutmaster

as Helen Jordan

Because of You

as Susan Arnold

Reunion in Reno

as Mrs. Doris Linaker

Payment on Demand

as Eileen Benson

Four Faces West

as Fay Hollister

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

as Marie de Varenne

Patrick the Great

as Lynn Andrews

I Walked with a Zombie

as Betsy Connell

Happy Land

as Agnes Marsh

Meet the Stewarts

as Candace "Candy" Goodwin

So Ends Our Night

as Marie Steiner

A Man Betrayed

as Sabra Cameron

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1

1941

as Self (uncredited)

Coast Guard

1939

as Nancy Bliss

5.0

If I Were King

1938

as Katherine de Vaucelles

Souls at Sea

as Margaret Tarryton

Wells Fargo

as Justine Pryor

Half Angel

as Allison Lang

The Gay Deception

as Mirabel

Becky Sharp

as Amelia Sedley

Keep 'Em Rolling

as Marjorie Deane

Finishing School

as Virginia Radcliffe

Of Human Bondage

as Sally Athelny

Coming Out Party

as Joyce 'Joy' Stanhope

Little Women

as Meg

Blood Money

as Elaine Talbart

The Silver Cord

as Hester

King of the Jungle

as Ann Rogers

Headline Shooter

as Jane Mallory

One Man's Journey

as Joan Stockton

The Crime of the Century

1933

as Doris Brandt

6.4

Hollywood on Parade No. A-6

1933

as Self

4.5

The Strange Case of Clara Deane

1932

as Nancy Deane

6.0

If I Had a Million

1932

as Mary Wallace (uncredited)

Love is a Racket

as Mary Wodehouse

This Reckless Age

as Lois Ingals

The Night of June 13

as Ginger Blake

Rich Man's Folly

as Ann Trumbull

June Moon

as Edna Baker

Working Girls

as Louise Adams

An American Tragedy

as Sondra Finchley

Nice Women

as Jerry Girard

Caught

1931

as Kate Winslow

6.0

True to the Navy

1930

as Girl at Table (uncredited)

Along Came Youth

as Elinor

Monte Carlo

as Receptionist (uncredited)

6.5

Follow Thru

1930

as Woman in Ladies' Locker Room (uncredited)

7.4

A Man from Wyoming

1930

as Nurse (uncredited)

Playboy of Paris

as Yvonne Philibert

Words and Music

as Co-Ed (uncredited)

Television (2)

Four Star Playhouse

as Rhoda Stroude

Lux Video Theatre

as Louise