Cast & creator
Frances Dee
Best known for Four Star Playhouse, Lux Video Theatre, Night of 100 Stars
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.
Also known as: Frances Marion Dee, Frances Dee McCrea, Jean Dee
54
film credits
2
television credits
56
1929–2003 · acting roles
6.7
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (56)
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Four Star Playhouse
Rhoda Stroude
1952Lux Video Theatre
Louise
1950
Night of 100 Stars
Self
1982
I Walked with a Zombie
Betsy Connell
1943
Little Women
Meg
1933
If I Were King
Katherine de Vaucelles
1938
Working Girls
Louise Adams
1931
Of Human Bondage
Sally Athelny
1934
If I Had a Million
Mary Wallace
1932
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
Marie de Varenne
1947
So Ends Our Night
Marie Steiner
1941
The Crime of the Century
Doris Brandt
1933
Nice Women
Jerry Girard
1931
One Man's Journey
Joan Stockton
1933
Becky Sharp
Amelia Sedley
1935
Love is a Racket
Mary Wodehouse
1932
Four Faces West
Fay Hollister
1948
The Night of June 13
Ginger Blake
1932
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
Self
1933
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
1988
Payment on Demand
Eileen Benson
1951
June Moon
Edna Baker
1931
King of the Jungle
Ann Rogers
1933
Finishing School
Virginia Radcliffe
1934
Meet the Stewarts
Candace "Candy" Goodwin
1942
Happy Land
Agnes Marsh
1943
Souls at Sea
Margaret Tarryton
1937
The Gay Deception
Mirabel
1935
Complicated Women
Self - Interviewee
2003
Half Angel
Allison Lang
1936
Wells Fargo
Justine Pryor
1937
An American Tragedy
Sondra Finchley
1931
True to the Navy
Girl at Table (uncredited)
1930
The Silver Cord
Hester
1933
Because of You
Susan Arnold
1952
A Man from Wyoming
Nurse (uncredited)
1930
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1
Self (uncredited)
1941
Reunion in Reno
Mrs. Doris Linaker
1951
Coast Guard
Nancy Bliss
1939
The Strange Case of Clara Deane
Nancy Deane
1932
Rich Man's Folly
Ann Trumbull
1931
Words and Music
Co-Ed (uncredited)
1929
A Man Betrayed
Sabra Cameron
1941
Headline Shooter
Jane Mallory
1933
Mister Scoutmaster
Helen Jordan
1953
Gypsy Colt
Em MacWade
1954
Monte Carlo
Receptionist (uncredited)
1930
Patrick the Great
Lynn Andrews
1945
Blood Money
Elaine Talbart
1933
Follow Thru
Woman in Ladies' Locker Room (uncredited)
1930
This Reckless Age
Lois Ingals
1932
Playboy of Paris
Yvonne Philibert
1930
Caught
Kate Winslow
1931
Coming Out Party
Joyce 'Joy' Stanhope
1934
Keep 'Em Rolling
Marjorie Deane
1934
Along Came Youth
Elinor
1930