Frances Dee

Born: 1909-11-26

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.


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Little Women

as Meg
Released: 1933-11-24

Four sisters come of age during the American Civil War. With their father away fighting, the...

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Of Human Bondage

as Sally Athelny
Released: 1934-07-20

A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy...

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I Walked with a Zombie

as Betsy Connell
Released: 1943-04-21

A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose...

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An American Tragedy

as Sondra Finchley
Released: 1931-08-22

A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.

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The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

as Marie de Varenne
Released: 1947-04-25

A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who...

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Night of 100 Stars

as Self
Released: 1982-03-08

The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took...

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If I Were King

as Katherine de Vaucelles
Released: 1938-09-28

King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in...

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If I Had a Million

as Mary Wallace (uncredited)
Released: 1932-11-18

An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to...

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Four Faces West

as Fay Hollister
Released: 1948-08-03

Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks...

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King of the Jungle

as Ann Rogers
Released: 1933-03-10

A white youth raised in the jungle by animals is captured by a safari and brought back to...

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Becky Sharp

as Amelia Sedley
Released: 1935-06-28

The first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor film. Adapted from a play that was...

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The Crime of the Century

as Doris Brandt
Released: 1933-02-18

Driven to desperation by his young and extravagent wife, alienist Dr. Emil Brandt has plotted...

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Complicated Women

as Self - Interviewee
Released: 2003-05-06

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound...

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Finishing School

as Virginia Radcliffe
Released: 1934-05-04

Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical...

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Monte Carlo

as Receptionist (uncredited)
Released: 1930-08-27

A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.

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The Silver Cord

as Hester
Released: 1933-05-05

A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She...

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Gypsy Colt

as Em MacWade
Released: 1954-04-02

In this trans-species remake of Lassie, Come Home, a faithful horse undertakes a perilous...

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Payment on Demand

as Eileen Benson
Released: 1951-02-03

David gives his wife, Joyce, an unexpected—and unpleasant—surprise when he suddenly demands a...

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Happy Land

as Agnes Marsh
Released: 1943-11-10

An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist...

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Souls at Sea

as Margaret Tarryton
Released: 1937-09-03

Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave...

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Blood Money

as Elaine Talbart
Released: 1933-11-17

The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected...

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Wells Fargo

as Justine Pryor
Released: 1937-12-31

In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company,...

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Hollywood: The Selznick Years

as 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1961-12-31

Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O....

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Along Came Youth

as Elinor
Released: 1930-12-20

An American sportsman stranded in London poses as a cook to remain close to the aristocratic...

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A Man Betrayed

as Sabra Cameron
Released: 1941-03-07

Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove...

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Headline Shooter

as Jane Mallory
Released: 1933-07-28

A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.

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One Man's Journey

as Joan Stockton
Released: 1933-08-31

Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to...

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Rich Man's Folly

as Ann Trumbull
Released: 1931-11-14

The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to...

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Love Is a Racket

as Mary Wodehouse
Released: 1932-06-18

A gossip columnist helps a Broadway ingenue who's beholden to a penthouse gangster.

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The Gay Deception

as Mirabel Miller
Released: 1935-09-13

A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York...

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Patrick the Great

as Lynn Andrews
Released: 1945-05-04

A famous stage actor hopes to land the lead role in a big new Broadway musical, but he's unaware...

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Playboy of Paris

as Yvonne Philibert
Released: 1930-10-18

Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a...

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Meet the Stewarts

as Candace "Candy" Goodwin
Released: 1942-05-21

A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.

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The Strange Case of Clara Deane

as Nancy Deane
Released: 1932-05-06

A young dress designer marries an insurance agent. They soon have a daughter, but what the wife...

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Mister Scoutmaster

as Helen Jordan
Released: 1953-09-02

Snobby TV star, Robert Jordan, worries that he is out of touch with the younger generation and...

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So Ends Our Night

as Marie Steiner
Released: 1941-02-27

An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's...

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The Night of June 13

as Ginger Blake
Released: 1932-09-17

Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow....

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Reunion in Reno

as Mrs. Doris Linaker
Released: 1951-10-09

A little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents. Breezy B...

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Because of You

as Susan Arnold
Released: 1952-12-04

A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.

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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1

as Herself
Released: 1941-10-02

Hedda Hopper guides us through some of Hollywood's sights; the home of William S. Hart and a Kay...

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Follow Thru

as Womanin Ladies' Locker Room (uncredited)
Released: 1930-09-26

Lora Moore, the club champion, loses a golf match to a woman from another golf club. Then Jerry...

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Coast Guard

as Nancy Bliss
Released: 1939-08-04

Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas...

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The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1988-10-01

This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests,...

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Coming Out Party

as Joyce 'Joy' Stanhope
Released: 1934-03-09

In this romance, a lovely young debutante falls in love with a jazz violinist. Her mother wants...

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This Reckless Age

as Lois Ingals
Released: 1932-01-09

Donald Ingals and his wife Eunice are conventional and loving parents who are shocked when their...

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A Man from Wyoming

as Nurse (uncredited)
Released: 1930-07-12

A story about a man from Wyoming who enlists in the Army and is sent to the front during World...

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Words and Music

as Co-Ed (uncredited)
Released: 1929-08-18

Phil and Pete compete for Mary's love and also in a contest for best song written by a college...

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Working Girls

as Louise Adams
Released: 1931-12-12

Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister...

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Caught

as Kate Winslow
Released: 1931-08-08

Calamity Jane is a tough and rowdy woman in the old West who owns a saloon and gambling joint...

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True to the Navy

as Girl at Table (uncredited)
Released: 1930-05-25

Ruby is a counter girl at the San Diego Soda Shop with a habit of being a girlfriend to Sailors...

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Half Angel

as Allison Lang
Released: 1936-05-22

Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is...

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June Moon

as Edna Baker
Released: 1931-03-21

An ordinary Joe has ambitions to become a Tin Pan Alley writer.

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Hollywood on Parade No. A-6

as Self
Released: 1933-01-12

A promotional film featuring movie stars at play. Includes Buster Keaton in a Napoleonic admiral...

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Keep 'Em Rolling

as Marjorie Deane
Released: 1934-03-02

World War I drama about a soldier and the wild horse he befriends.

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Nice Women

as Jerry Girard
Released: 1931-11-28

A mother tries to get her daughter to marry for money, but the daughter wants to marry for love.

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