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.
Filmography
Complicated Women
2003
as Self - Interviewee
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
as Self (archive footage)
Night of 100 Stars
1982
as Self
Gypsy Colt
1954
as Em MacWade
Mister Scoutmaster
1953
as Helen Jordan
Because of You
1952
as Susan Arnold
Reunion in Reno
1951
as Mrs. Doris Linaker
Payment on Demand
1951
as Eileen Benson
Four Faces West
1948
as Fay Hollister
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
1947
as Marie de Varenne
Patrick the Great
1945
as Lynn Andrews
Happy Land
1943
as Agnes Marsh
I Walked with a Zombie
1943
as Betsy Connell
Meet the Stewarts
1942
as Candace "Candy" Goodwin
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1
1941
as Self (uncredited)
A Man Betrayed
1941
as Sabra Cameron
So Ends Our Night
1941
as Marie Steiner
Coast Guard
1939
as Nancy Bliss
If I Were King
1938
as Katherine de Vaucelles
Wells Fargo
1937
as Justine Pryor
Souls at Sea
1937
as Margaret Tarryton
Half Angel
1936
as Allison Lang
The Gay Deception
1935
as Mirabel
Becky Sharp
1935
as Amelia Sedley