Acting
Frances Dee
EN cinema · 54 credits
Born
26 November 1909
Died
6 March 2004 (aged 94)
Birthplace
Los Angeles, California, USA
Also known as Frances Marion Dee · Frances Dee McCrea · Jean Dee
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
Filmography
Complicated Women
as Self - Interviewee
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
Gypsy Colt
as Em MacWade
Mister Scoutmaster
as Helen Jordan
Because of You
as Susan Arnold
Payment on Demand
as Eileen Benson
Reunion in Reno
as Mrs. Doris Linaker
Four Faces West
as Fay Hollister
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
as Marie de Varenne
Patrick the Great
as Lynn Andrews
I Walked with a Zombie
as Betsy Connell
Happy Land
as Agnes Marsh
Meet the Stewarts
as Candace "Candy" Goodwin
A Man Betrayed
as Sabra Cameron
So Ends Our Night
as Marie Steiner
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1
as Self (uncredited)
Coast Guard
as Nancy Bliss
If I Were King
as Katherine de Vaucelles
Souls at Sea
as Margaret Tarryton
Wells Fargo
as Justine Pryor
Half Angel
as Allison Lang
Becky Sharp
as Amelia Sedley
The Gay Deception
as Mirabel
Of Human Bondage
as Sally Athelny
Finishing School
as Virginia Radcliffe
Keep 'Em Rolling
as Marjorie Deane
Coming Out Party
as Joyce 'Joy' Stanhope
Blood Money
as Elaine Talbart
Little Women
as Meg
The Crime of the Century
as Doris Brandt
Headline Shooter
as Jane Mallory
One Man's Journey
as Joan Stockton
The Silver Cord
as Hester
King of the Jungle
as Ann Rogers
Love is a Racket
as Mary Wodehouse
If I Had a Million
as Mary Wallace
The Strange Case of Clara Deane
as Nancy Deane
The Night of June 13
as Ginger Blake
This Reckless Age
as Lois Ingals
An American Tragedy
as Sondra Finchley
Working Girls
as Louise Adams
Caught
as Kate Winslow
Rich Man's Folly
as Ann Trumbull
June Moon
as Edna Baker
Nice Women
as Jerry Girard
Playboy of Paris
as Yvonne Philibert
Follow Thru
as Woman in Ladies' Locker Room (uncredited)
True to the Navy
as Girl at Table (uncredited)
Monte Carlo
as Receptionist (uncredited)
Along Came Youth
as Elinor
A Man from Wyoming
as Nurse (uncredited)
Words and Music
as Co-Ed (uncredited)