Frances Dee

Biography

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

I Walked with a Zombie

as Betsy Connell

Little Women

as Meg

Of Human Bondage

as Sally Athelny

If I Had a Million

as Mary Wallace (uncredited)

Payment on Demand

as Eileen Benson

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

as Marie de Varenne

Becky Sharp

as Amelia Sedley

Four Faces West

as Fay Hollister

Monte Carlo

as Receptionist (uncredited)

An American Tragedy

as Sondra Finchley