Frances Dee
Actor
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.
Filmography
Little Women
as Meg 1933
Of Human Bondage
as Sally Athelny 1934
If I Had a Million
as Mary Wallace (uncredited) 1932
Becky Sharp
as Amelia Sedley 1935
Payment on Demand
as Eileen Benson 1951
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
as Marie de Varenne 1947
Four Faces West
as Fay Hollister 1948
Monte Carlo
as Receptionist (uncredited) 1930
An American Tragedy
as Sondra Finchley 1931
Finishing School
as Virginia Radcliffe 1934
Love Is a Racket
as Mary Wodehouse 1932
Wells Fargo
as Justine Pryor 1937
Souls at Sea
as Margaret Tarryton 1937
If I Were King
as Katherine de Vaucelles 1938
A Man Betrayed
as Sabra Cameron 1941
The Crime of the Century
as Doris Brandt 1933