
Frances Dee
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
Frances Marion Dee (November 26, 1909 β 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
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

Four Star Playhouse
1952
as Rhoda Stroude

Payment on Demand
1951
as Eileen Benson

Reunion in Reno
1951
as Mrs. Doris Linaker
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Louise

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

I Walked with a Zombie
1943
as Betsy Connell

Happy Land
1943
as Agnes Marsh

Meet the Stewarts
1942
as Candace "Candy" Goodwin

A Man Betrayed
1941
as Sabra Cameron

So Ends Our Night
1941
as Marie Steiner

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1
1941
as Self (uncredited)

Coast Guard
1939
as Nancy Bliss

If I Were King
1938
as Katherine de Vaucelles

Souls at Sea
1937
as Margaret Tarryton

Wells Fargo
1937
as Justine Pryor

Half Angel
1936
as Allison Lang

Becky Sharp
1935
as Amelia Sedley

The Gay Deception
1935
as Mirabel

Of Human Bondage
1934
as Sally Athelny

Finishing School
1934
as Virginia Radcliffe

Keep 'Em Rolling
1934
as Marjorie Deane

Coming Out Party
1934
as Joyce 'Joy' Stanhope

Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
1933
as Self

Blood Money
1933
as Elaine Talbart

Little Women
1933
as Meg

The Crime of the Century
1933
as Doris Brandt

Headline Shooter
1933
as Jane Mallory

One Man's Journey
1933
as Joan Stockton

The Silver Cord
1933
as Hester

King of the Jungle
1933
as Ann Rogers

Love is a Racket
1932
as Mary Wodehouse

If I Had a Million
1932
as Mary Wallace

The Strange Case of Clara Deane
1932
as Nancy Deane

The Night of June 13
1932
as Ginger Blake

This Reckless Age
1932
as Lois Ingals

An American Tragedy
1931
as Sondra Finchley

Working Girls
1931
as Louise Adams

Caught
1931
as Kate Winslow

Rich Man's Folly
1931
as Ann Trumbull

June Moon
1931
as Edna Baker

Nice Women
1931
as Jerry Girard

Playboy of Paris
1930
as Yvonne Philibert

Follow Thru
1930
as Woman in Ladies' Locker Room (uncredited)

True to the Navy
1930
as Girl at Table (uncredited)

Monte Carlo
1930
as Receptionist (uncredited)

A Man from Wyoming
1930
as Nurse (uncredited)

Along Came Youth
1930
as Elinor

Words and Music
1929
as Co-Ed (uncredited)