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