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.
Known For
Top 40 Movies
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
1933
Coast Guard
1939
Happy Land
1943
One Man's Journey
1933
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
Little Women
1933
A Man from Wyoming
1930
Wells Fargo
1937
The Crime of the Century
1933
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
1947
Finishing School
1934
Caught
1931
Complicated Women
2003
Four Faces West
1948
If I Had a Million
1932
Coming Out Party
1934
An American Tragedy
1931
Follow Thru
1930
Souls at Sea
1937
Keep 'Em Rolling
1934
Headline Shooter
1933
Meet the Stewarts
1942
Along Came Youth
1930
Night of 100 Stars
1982
If I Were King
1938
Working Girls
1931
I Walked with a Zombie
1943
Of Human Bondage
1934
The Gay Deception
1935
Blood Money
1933
Becky Sharp
1935
Monte Carlo
1930
Love is a Racket
1932
Gypsy Colt
1954
True to the Navy
1930
The Night of June 13
1932
Because of You
1952
A Man Betrayed
1941
Rich Man's Folly
1931
The Silver Cord
1933