Frances Dee

Frances Dee

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.

  • Popularity : 5.292
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1909-11-26
  • Place of Birth : Los Angeles, California, USA
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Frances Dee Movies

  • 1933
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    Hollywood on Parade No. A-6

    Hollywood on Parade No. A-6

    5 1933 HD

    A promotional film featuring movie stars at play. Includes Buster Keaton in a Napoleonic admiral suit in his "land yacht", a custom-built bus he...

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  • 1941
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    A Man Betrayed

    A Man Betrayed

    5.5 1941 HD

    Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is...

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  • 1943
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    I Walked with a Zombie

    I Walked with a Zombie

    6.752 1943 HD

    A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.

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  • 1933
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    Blood Money

    Blood Money

    7 1933 HD

    The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey, who, in the course of his work,...

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  • 1937
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    Souls at Sea

    Souls at Sea

    5.9 1937 HD

    Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.

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  • 1935
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    Becky Sharp

    Becky Sharp

    5.6 1935 HD

    The first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor film. Adapted from a play that was adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's book...

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  • 1934
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    Of Human Bondage

    Of Human Bondage

    6.5 1934 HD

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

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  • 1948
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    Four Faces West

    Four Faces West

    5.6 1948 HD

    Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks about securing a loan that large, McEwen shows him...

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  • 1933
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    Little Women

    Little Women

    6.8 1933 HD

    Four sisters come of age during the American Civil War. With their father away fighting, the family, headed by their mother, experiences...

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  • 1935
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    The Gay Deception

    The Gay Deception

    6.4 1935 HD

    A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he...

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  • 1951
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    Payment on Demand

    Payment on Demand

    6.2 1951 HD

    David gives his wife, Joyce, an unexpected—and unpleasant—surprise when he suddenly demands a divorce. When she then learns that David...

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  • 1931
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    An American Tragedy

    An American Tragedy

    6.1 1931 HD

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

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    Love Is a Racket

    Love Is a Racket

    5.8 1932 HD

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

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  • 1942
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    Meet the Stewarts

    Meet the Stewarts

    6 1942 HD

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

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  • 1933
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    The Crime of the Century

    The Crime of the Century

    6.3 1933 HD

    Driven to desperation by his young and extravagent wife, alienist Dr. Emil Brandt has plotted the perfect crime. Now he begs the police to lock him...

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  • 1932
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    If I Had a Million

    If I Had a Million

    6.6 1932 HD

    An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.

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  • 1953
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    Mister Scoutmaster

    Mister Scoutmaster

    6.5 1953 HD

    Snobby TV star, Robert Jordan, worries that he is out of touch with the younger generation and that's why his TV show is failing. He becomes a Boy...

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  • 1954
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    Gypsy Colt

    Gypsy Colt

    6.3 1954 HD

    In this trans-species remake of Lassie, Come Home, a faithful horse undertakes a perilous journey to return to the family it loves.

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  • 1938
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    If I Were King

    If I Were King

    6.7 1938 HD

    King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the...

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  • 1939
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    Coast Guard

    Coast Guard

    5 1939 HD

    Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the...

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  • 1937
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    Wells Fargo

    Wells Fargo

    5.1 1937 HD

    In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers...

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  • 1947
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    The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

    The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

    6.3 1947 HD

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

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  • 1932
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    The Strange Case of Clara Deane

    The Strange Case of Clara Deane

    6 1932 HD

    A young dress designer marries an insurance agent. They soon have a daughter, but what the wife doesn't know is that her husband is actually a...

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  • 1933
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    Headline Shooter

    Headline Shooter

    5.8 1933 HD

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

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  • 1945
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    Patrick the Great

    Patrick the Great

    4 1945 HD

    A famous stage actor hopes to land the lead role in a big new Broadway musical, but he's unaware his teenage son has already been given the part.

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  • 1934
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    Finishing School

    Finishing School

    6.2 1934 HD

    Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical intern who works as a waiter for a living. Both the...

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  • 1941
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    So Ends Our Night

    So Ends Our Night

    6 1941 HD

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

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  • 1952
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    Because of You

    Because of You

    5.4 1952 HD

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

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  • 1933
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    One Man's Journey

    One Man's Journey

    7.1 1933 HD

    Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his...

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  • 1943
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    Happy Land

    Happy Land

    6.2 1943 HD

    An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he...

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  • 1931
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    Working Girls

    Working Girls

    6.8 1931 HD

    Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister June, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in...

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  • 1930
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    Playboy of Paris

    Playboy of Paris

    7 1930 HD

    Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her....

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  • 1961
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    Hollywood: The Selznick Years

    Hollywood: The Selznick Years

    3.3 1961 HD

    Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in...

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  • 1933
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    The Silver Cord

    The Silver Cord

    7.1 1933 HD

    A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately sets to work at sabotaging their marriage as well...

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  • 2003
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    Complicated Women

    Complicated Women

    6.7 2003 HD

    Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

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  • 1932
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    The Night of June 13

    The Night of June 13

    7 1932 HD

    Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that...

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  • 1936
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    Half Angel

    Half Angel

    1 1936 HD

    Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Reporter Duffy Giles has faith in her innocence.

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  • 1930
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    Follow Thru

    Follow Thru

    7.2 1930 HD

    Lora Moore, the club champion, loses a golf match to a woman from another golf club. Then Jerry Downs, a handsome golf pro, and his goofy friend,...

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  • 1934
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    Keep 'Em Rolling

    Keep 'Em Rolling

    6 1934 HD

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

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  • 1932
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    This Reckless Age

    This Reckless Age

    5 1932 HD

    Donald Ingals and his wife Eunice are conventional and loving parents who are shocked when their son Bradley comes home from college with ideas that...

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  • 1930
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    True to the Navy

    True to the Navy

    7 1930 HD

    Ruby is a counter girl at the San Diego Soda Shop with a habit of being a girlfriend to Sailors stopping by. Things get a little zany when she sets...

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  • 1933
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    King of the Jungle

    King of the Jungle

    5 1933 HD

    A white youth raised in the jungle by animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.

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  • 1931
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    Caught

    Caught

    6 1931 HD

    Calamity Jane is a tough and rowdy woman in the old West who owns a saloon and gambling joint (and runs a cattle rustling operation as a sideline)....

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  • 1941
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    Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1

    Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1

    1 1941 HD

    Hedda Hopper guides us through some of Hollywood's sights; the home of William S. Hart and a Kay Kyser recording-session being among them.

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  • 1930
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    Monte Carlo

    Monte Carlo

    6.3 1930 HD

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

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  • 1931
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    Rich Man's Folly

    Rich Man's Folly

    4.5 1931 HD

    The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies...

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  • 1988
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    The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

    The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

    8 1988 HD

    This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.

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  • 1951
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    Reunion in Reno

    Reunion in Reno

    6 1951 HD

    A little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents. Breezy B comedy was loosely remade as Irreconcilable Differences.

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  • 1931
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    June Moon

    June Moon

    1 1931 HD

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

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  • 1934
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    Coming Out Party

    Coming Out Party

    5 1934 HD

    In this romance, a lovely young debutante falls in love with a jazz violinist. Her mother wants her to marry a wealthy young man, but the...

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  • 1929
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    Words and Music

    Words and Music

    1 1929 HD

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

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  • 1930
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    A Man from Wyoming

    A Man from Wyoming

    9 1930 HD

    A story about a man from Wyoming who enlists in the Army and is sent to the front during World War I. There he saves the life of an American society...

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  • 1930
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    Along Came Youth

    Along Came Youth

    1 1930 HD

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

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  • 1931
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    Nice Women

    Nice Women

    1 1931 HD

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

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  • 1982
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    Night of 100 Stars

    Night of 100 Stars

    6.5 1982 HD

    The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City...

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    6 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original...

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  • 1952
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    Four Star Playhouse

    Four Star Playhouse

    6.125 1952 HD

    Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer...

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