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BIRTHDAY
DIED
March 06, 2004

RECENT CREDITS
Little Women (FILM)  Dec. 21, 1994
So Ends Our Night (FILM)  Jan. 1, 1941
Souls at Sea (FILM)  Sep. 3, 1937
Becky Sharp (FILM)  Jan. 1, 1935
Blood Money (FILM)  Jan. 1, 1933
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BIOGRAPHY
Fresh out of the University of Chicago, brunette actress Frances Dee began securing extra roles in Hollywood, and by 1930 was co-starring with Maurice Chevalier (at his personal request) in Playboy in Paris. No winsome....
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Fresh out of the University of Chicago, brunette actress Frances Dee began securing extra roles in Hollywood, and by 1930 was co-starring with Maurice Chevalier (at his personal request) in Playboy in Paris. No winsome lass she, Frances truly came to life in parts calling for headstrong, uninhibited behavior. She was at her all-time best in Blood Money (1933), playing a thrill-seeking socialite with a pronounced masochistic streak. Hollywood saw Frances differently, and persisted in casting her in sedate roles that anyone could have played; it was disheartening, for example, to watch her play straight woman to Clifton Webb in Mister Scoutmaster (1953). Offscreen, Frances Dee was, for nearly sixty years, the wife of film star Joel McCrea, and the mother of actor Jody McCrea. In 2004, Dee passed away due to complications from a stroke.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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