Portrait of Frances Dee

Frances Dee

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.

Born: November 26, 1909

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

Filmography

2003
Complicated Women

as Self - Interviewee

1988
1954
Gypsy Colt

as Em MacWade

1953
Mister Scoutmaster

as Helen Jordan

1952
Because of You

as Susan Arnold

1951
Reunion in Reno

as Mrs. Doris Linaker

1951
Payment on Demand

as Eileen Benson

1948
Four Faces West

as Fay Hollister

1947
1945
Patrick the Great

as Lynn Andrews

1943
Happy Land

as Agnes Marsh

1943
I Walked with a Zombie

as Betsy Connell

1942
Meet the Stewarts

as Candace "Candy" Goodwin

1941
A Man Betrayed

as Sabra Cameron

1941
So Ends Our Night

as Marie Steiner

1939
Coast Guard

as Nancy Bliss

1938
If I Were King

as Katherine de Vaucelles

1937
Wells Fargo

as Justine Pryor

1937
Souls at Sea

as Margaret Tarryton

1936
Half Angel

as Allison Lang

1935
1935
Becky Sharp

as Amelia Sedley

1934
Of Human Bondage

as Sally Athelny

1934
Finishing School

as Virginia Radcliffe

1934
Coming Out Party

as Joyce 'Joy' Stanhope

1934
Keep 'Em Rolling

as Marjorie Deane

1933
1933
Blood Money

as Elaine Talbart

1933
One Man's Journey

as Joan Stockton

1933
Headline Shooter

as Jane Mallory

1933
1933
King of the Jungle

as Ann Rogers

1933
1932
If I Had a Million

as Mary Wallace (uncredited)

1932
The Night of June 13

as Ginger Blake

1932
Love Is a Racket

as Mary Wodehouse

1932
This Reckless Age

as Lois Ingals

1931
Working Girls

as Louise Adams

1931
Nice Women

as Jerry Girard

1931
Rich Man's Folly

as Ann Trumbull

1931
An American Tragedy

as Sondra Finchley

1931
Caught

as Kate Winslow

1931
June Moon

as Edna Baker

1930
1930
Playboy of Paris

as Yvonne Philibert

1930
Follow Thru

as Woman in Ladies' Locker Room (uncredited)

1930
Monte Carlo

as Receptionist (uncredited)

1930
A Man from Wyoming

as Nurse (uncredited)

1930
True to the Navy

as Girl at Table (uncredited)

1929
Words and Music

as Co-Ed (uncredited)