Frances Dee
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
Four Star Playhouse
Rhoda Stroude
1952
Lux Video Theatre
Louise
1950
Film
Working Girls
Louise Adams
1931
Film
Of Human Bondage
Sally Athelny
1934
Film
Little Women
Meg
1933
Film
Night of 100 Stars
Self
1982
Film
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
Marie de Varenne
1947
Film
I Walked with a Zombie
Betsy Connell
1943
Film
Complicated Women
Self - Interviewee
2003
Film
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
1988
Film
Because of You
Susan Arnold
1952
Film
Finishing School
Virginia Radcliffe
1934
Film
June Moon
Edna Baker
1931
Film
The Gay Deception
Mirabel
1935
Film
If I Had a Million
Mary Wallace
1932
Film
Words and Music
Co-Ed (uncredited)
1929
Film
Becky Sharp
Amelia Sedley
1935
Film
Reunion in Reno
Mrs. Doris Linaker
1951
Film
Nice Women
Jerry Girard
1931
Film
Love is a Racket
Mary Wodehouse
1932
Film
Four Faces West
Fay Hollister
1948
Film
Souls at Sea
Margaret Tarryton
1937
Film
Wells Fargo
Justine Pryor
1937
Film
Payment on Demand
Eileen Benson
1951
Film
If I Were King
Katherine de Vaucelles
1938
Film
An American Tragedy
Sondra Finchley
1931
Film
A Man Betrayed
Sabra Cameron
1941
Film
So Ends Our Night
Marie Steiner
1941
Film
Meet the Stewarts
Candace "Candy" Goodwin
1942
Film
Coast Guard
Nancy Bliss
1939
Film
Blood Money
Elaine Talbart
1933
Film
The Crime of the Century
Doris Brandt
1933
Film
Monte Carlo
Receptionist (uncredited)
1930
Film
Happy Land
Agnes Marsh
1943
Film
The Silver Cord
Hester
1933
Film
Caught
Kate Winslow
1931
Film
Mister Scoutmaster
Helen Jordan
1953
Film
This Reckless Age
Lois Ingals
1932
Film
Gypsy Colt
Em MacWade
1954
Film
Follow Thru
Woman in Ladies' Locker Room (uncredited)
1930
Film
King of the Jungle
Ann Rogers
1933
Film
The Night of June 13
Ginger Blake
1932
Film
Rich Man's Folly
Ann Trumbull
1931
Film
Half Angel
Allison Lang
1936
Film
Headline Shooter
Jane Mallory
1933
Film
Coming Out Party
Joyce 'Joy' Stanhope
1934
Film
Patrick the Great
Lynn Andrews
1945
Film
One Man's Journey
Joan Stockton
1933
Film
Playboy of Paris
Yvonne Philibert
1930
Film
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1
Self (uncredited)
1941
Film
Along Came Youth
Elinor
1930
Film
A Man from Wyoming
Nurse (uncredited)
1930
Film
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
Self
1933
Film
Keep 'Em Rolling
Marjorie Deane
1934
Film
The Strange Case of Clara Deane
Nancy Deane
1932
Film
True to the Navy
Girl at Table (uncredited)
1930