Frances Dee
Known for Acting
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
Night of 100 Stars
1982
as Self
Working Girls
1931
as Louise Adams
The Gay Deception
1935
as Mirabel
Wells Fargo
1937
as Justine Pryor
June Moon
1931
as Edna Baker
Little Women
1933
as Meg
Of Human Bondage
1934
as Sally Athelny
Complicated Women
2003
as Self - Interviewee
Love is a Racket
1932
as Mary Wodehouse
If I Had a Million
1932
as Mary Wallace (uncredited)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
as Self (archive footage)
Happy Land
1943
as Agnes Marsh
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
1947
as Marie de Varenne
Half Angel
1936
as Allison Lang
I Walked with a Zombie
1943
as Betsy Connell
Coast Guard
1939
as Nancy Bliss
Finishing School
1934
as Virginia Radcliffe
Payment on Demand
1951
as Eileen Benson
Words and Music
1929
as Co-Ed (uncredited)
So Ends Our Night
1941
as Marie Steiner