Frances Dee
Birthday: 1909-11-26
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
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.
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
A promotional film featuring movie stars at play. Includes Buster Keaton in a Napoleonic admiral sui...
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A Man Betrayed
A bucolic lawyer takes on big-city corruption, setting out to prove that an above-suspicion politici...
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I Walked with a Zombie
A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husb...
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Blood Money
The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grif...
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Souls at Sea
Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave tra...
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Becky Sharp
In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the positio...
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Of Human Bondage
A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them...
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Four Faces West
Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks abo...
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The Gay Deception
A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, ...
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Payment on Demand
David gives his wife, Joyce, an unexpected—and unpleasant—surprise when he suddenly demands a divorc...
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An American Tragedy
A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder....
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Love Is a Racket
A gossip columnist helps a Broadway ingenue who's beholden to a penthouse gangster....
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Meet the Stewarts
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget....
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The Crime of the Century
Driven to desperation by his young and extravagant wife, alienist Dr. Emil Brandt has arranged a per...
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If I Had a Million
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight st...
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Mister Scoutmaster
Snobby TV star, Robert Jordan, worries that he is out of touch with the younger generation and that'...
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Gypsy Colt
In this trans-species remake of Lassie, Come Home, a faithful horse undertakes a perilous journey to...
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If I Were King
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his ...
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Coast Guard
Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Br...
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Wells Fargo
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, wil...
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The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly lo...
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The Strange Case of Clara Deane
A young dress designer marries an insurance agent. They soon have a daughter, but what the wife does...
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Headline Shooter
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot....
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Patrick the Great
A famous stage actor hopes to land the lead role in a big new Broadway musical, but he's unaware his...
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Finishing School
Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical inter...
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So Ends Our Night
An anti-Nazi refugee on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler...
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One Man's Journey
Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have...
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Happy Land
An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist beli...
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Working Girls
Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister June...
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Playboy of Paris
Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a wait...
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Complicated Women
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, u...
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The Silver Cord
A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately s...
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The Night of June 13
Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna ...
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Half Angel
Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Re...
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Follow Thru
Lora Moore, the club champion, loses a golf match to a woman from another golf club. Then Jerry Down...
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This Reckless Age
Donald Ingals and his wife Eunice are conventional and loving parents who are shocked when their son...
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True to the Navy
Ruby is a counter girl at the San Diego Soda Shop with a habit of being a girlfriend to Sailors stop...
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King of the Jungle
A white youth raised in the jungle by animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilizati...
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Caught
Calamity Jane is a tough and rowdy woman in the old West who owns a saloon and gambling joint (and r...
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1
Hedda Hopper guides us through some of Hollywood's sights; the home of William S. Hart and a Kay Kys...
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Monte Carlo
A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino....
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Rich Man's Folly
The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue hi...
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The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insig...
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Reunion in Reno
A little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents. Breezy B comedy w...
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Coming Out Party
In this romance, a lovely young debutante falls in love with a jazz violinist. Her mother wants her ...
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A Man from Wyoming
A story about a man from Wyoming who enlists in the Army and is sent to the front during World War I...
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Words and Music
Phil and Pete compete for Mary's love and also in a contest for best song written by a college stude...
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Along Came Youth
Broke and stranded in England, American sportsman Larry Brooks and his pal Ambrose take on increasin...
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Nice Women
A mother tries to get her daughter to marry for money, but the daughter wants to marry for love....
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Night of 100 Stars
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place ...
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