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.
Known For
Finishing School
Little Women
Payment on Demand
Night of 100 Stars
I Walked with a Zombie
Because of You
Gypsy Colt
If I Had a Million
All Movies (54)
- Complicated Women2003 · as Self - Interviewee
- The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind1988 · as Self (archive footage)
- Night of 100 Stars1982 · as Self
- Gypsy Colt1954 · as Em MacWade
- Mister Scoutmaster1953 · as Helen Jordan
- Because of You1952 · as Susan Arnold
- Reunion in Reno1951 · as Mrs. Doris Linaker
- Payment on Demand1951 · as Eileen Benson
- Four Faces West1948 · as Fay Hollister
- The Private Affairs of Bel Ami1947 · as Marie de Varenne
- Patrick the Great1945 · as Lynn Andrews
- Happy Land1943 · as Agnes Marsh
- I Walked with a Zombie1943 · as Betsy Connell
- Meet the Stewarts1942 · as Candace "Candy" Goodwin
- Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 11941 · as Self (uncredited)
- A Man Betrayed1941 · as Sabra Cameron
- So Ends Our Night1941 · as Marie Steiner
- Coast Guard1939 · as Nancy Bliss
- If I Were King1938 · as Katherine de Vaucelles
- Wells Fargo1937 · as Justine Pryor
- Souls at Sea1937 · as Margaret Tarryton
- Half Angel1936 · as Allison Lang
- The Gay Deception1935 · as Mirabel
- Becky Sharp1935 · as Amelia Sedley
- Of Human Bondage1934 · as Sally Athelny
- Finishing School1934 · as Virginia Radcliffe
- Coming Out Party1934 · as Joyce 'Joy' Stanhope
- Keep 'Em Rolling1934 · as Marjorie Deane
- Little Women1933 · as Meg
- Blood Money1933 · as Elaine Talbart
- One Man's Journey1933 · as Joan Stockton
- Headline Shooter1933 · as Jane Mallory
- The Silver Cord1933 · as Hester
- King of the Jungle1933 · as Ann Rogers
- The Crime of the Century1933 · as Doris Brandt
- Hollywood on Parade No. A-61933 · as Self
- If I Had a Million1932 · as Mary Wallace
- The Night of June 131932 · as Ginger Blake
- Love is a Racket1932 · as Mary Wodehouse
- The Strange Case of Clara Deane1932 · as Nancy Deane
- This Reckless Age1932 · as Lois Ingals
- Working Girls1931 · as Louise Adams
- Nice Women1931 · as Jerry Girard
- Rich Man's Folly1931 · as Ann Trumbull
- An American Tragedy1931 · as Sondra Finchley
- Caught1931 · as Kate Winslow
- June Moon1931 · as Edna Baker
- Along Came Youth1930 · as Elinor
- Playboy of Paris1930 · as Yvonne Philibert
- Follow Thru1930 · as Woman in Ladies' Locker Room (uncredited)
- Monte Carlo1930 · as Receptionist (uncredited)
- A Man from Wyoming1930 · as Nurse (uncredited)
- True to the Navy1930 · as Girl at Table (uncredited)
- Words and Music1929 · as Co-Ed (uncredited)
All TV Shows (2)
- Four Star Playhouse1952 · as Rhoda Stroude
- Lux Video Theatre1950 · as Louise