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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

Gender

Female

Birthday

1909-11-26

Deathday

2004-03-06 (94 years old)

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Also Known As

Frances Marion Dee
Frances Dee McCrea
Jean Dee

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.

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Acting

2003

Complicated Women as Self - Interviewee

1988

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

1982

Night of 100 Stars as Self

1961

Hollywood: The Selznick Years as 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)

1954

Gypsy Colt as Em MacWade

1953

Mister Scoutmaster as Helen Jordan

1952		Because of You as Susan Arnold
1952		Four Star Playhouse as Rhoda Stroude

1951		Reunion in Reno as Mrs. Doris Linaker
1951		Payment on Demand as Eileen Benson

1950

Lux Video Theatre as Louise

1948

Four Faces West as Fay Hollister

1947

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami as Marie de Varenne

1945

Patrick the Great as Lynn Andrews

1943		Happy Land as Agnes Marsh
1943		I Walked with a Zombie as Betsy Connell

1942

Meet the Stewarts as Candace "Candy" Goodwin

1941		Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1 as Herself
1941		A Man Betrayed as Sabra Cameron
1941		So Ends Our Night as Marie Steiner

1939

Coast Guard as Nancy Bliss

1938

If I Were King as Katherine de Vaucelles

1937		Wells Fargo as Justine Pryor
1937		Souls at Sea as Margaret Tarryton

1936

Half Angel as Allison Lang

1935		The Gay Deception as Mirabel
1935		Becky Sharp as Amelia Sedley

1934		Of Human Bondage as Sally Athelny
1934		Finishing School as Virginia Radcliffe
1934		Coming Out Party as Joyce 'Joy' Stanhope
1934		Keep 'Em Rolling as Marjorie Deane

1933		Little Women as Meg
1933		Blood Money as Elaine Talbart
1933		One Man's Journey as Joan Stockton
1933		Headline Shooter as Jane Mallory
1933		The Silver Cord as Hester
1933		King of the Jungle as Ann Rogers
1933		The Crime of the Century as Doris Brandt
1933		Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 as Self

1932		If I Had a Million as Mary Wallace (uncredited)
1932		The Night of June 13 as Ginger Blake
1932		Love Is a Racket as Mary Wodehouse
1932		The Strange Case of Clara Deane as Nancy Deane
1932		This Reckless Age as Lois Ingals

1931		Working Girls as Louise Adams
1931		Nice Women as Jerry Girard
1931		Rich Man's Folly as Ann Trumbull
1931		An American Tragedy as Sondra Finchley
1931		Caught as Kate Winslow
1931		June Moon as Edna Baker

1930		Along Came Youth as Elinor
1930		Playboy of Paris as Yvonne Philibert
1930		Follow Thru as Womanin Ladies' Locker Room (uncredited)
1930		Monte Carlo as Receptionist (uncredited)
1930		A Man from Wyoming as Nurse (uncredited)
1930		True to the Navy as Girl at Table (uncredited)

1929

Words and Music as Co-Ed (uncredited)