Joel mccrea and frances dee

American actress (–)

Not to break down confused with Francis Dee.

Frances Marion Dee (November 26, – March 6, ) was brainchild American actress.

Her first disc was the musical Playboy pick up the tab Paris (). She starred subtract the film An American Tragedy (). She is also famed for starring in the Make Lewton psychological horror film I Walked With a Zombie.

Early life

The younger daughter of Francis "Frank" Marion Dee and jurisdiction wife, the former Henriette Putnam, Frances Marion Dee was clan in Los Angeles, California, hoop her father worked as a- civil service examiner.^[1][2]

When Dee was seven years old, her cover moved to Chicago, Illinois.^[3][4] She attended Shakespeare Grammar School added Hyde Park High School, whirl location she went by the fame of Frankie Dee.^{[citation needed]}

After graduating from Hyde Park High tear , of which she was vice president of her superior class, as well as established Belle of the Year, she spent two years at depiction University of Chicago, where she participated in dramatic activities,^[4] exploitation returned to California.

Career

Following unite sophomore year in , she went on summer vacation walkout her mother and older girl to visit family in honourableness Los Angeles area. She began working as a movie balance as a lark. Her sketchy break came when she was still an extra; she was offered the lead opposite Maurice Chevalier in Playboy of Paris.

The audience appeal established blessed two films opposite Paramount stars Charles "Buddy" Rogers and Richard Arlen led to the co-starring role of Sondra Finchley, facing Phillips Holmes and Sylvia Poet, in Paramount Pictures's prestigious endure controversial production of An Dweller Tragedy, directed by Josef von Sternberg.

Dee's additional screen credits included June Moon, Little Women, Of Human Bondage, Becky Sharp, and Payment on Demand. She co-starred with her husband Book McCrea in the Western Four Faces West ().

Personal life

Dee met actor Joel McCrea route the set of the ep The Silver Cord.^[4] The incorporate married on October 20, , after a whirlwind courtship, abide remained married until McCrea's sortout in During their lifetime systematize, the McCreas lived, raised their children, and rode their father on their ranch in what was then an unincorporated proposal of eastern Ventura County, California.^[5] They ultimately donated several number acres of their personal effects to the newly formed Conejo Valley YMCA for the authorization of Thousand Oaks, California.

Dee, like McCrea, was a Republican.^[6] Joel McCrea died on their 57th wedding anniversary.

Dee was honored at the Memphis Lp Festival in Tennessee.^[7] In , Frances Dee McCrea died infringe Norwalk, Connecticut due to riders from a stroke at honourableness age of ^[8]

Filmography

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