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.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
as Self
1933
A Man Betrayed
as Sabra Cameron
1941
I Walked with a Zombie
as Betsy Connell
1943
Blood Money
as Elaine Talbart
1933
Souls at Sea
as Margaret Tarryton
1937
Becky Sharp
as Amelia Sedley
1935
Of Human Bondage
as Sally Athelny
1934
Four Faces West
as Fay Hollister
1948
Little Women
as Meg
1933
The Gay Deception
as Mirabel
1935
Payment on Demand
as Eileen Benson
1951
An American Tragedy
as Sondra Finchley
1931
Love is a Racket
as Mary Wodehouse
1932
Meet the Stewarts
as Candace "Candy" Goodwin
1942
The Crime of the Century
as Doris Brandt
1933
If I Had a Million
as Mary Wallace
1932
Mister Scoutmaster
as Helen Jordan
1953
Gypsy Colt
as Em MacWade
1954
If I Were King
as Katherine de Vaucelles
1938
Coast Guard
as Nancy Bliss
1939
