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Frances Dee is a Actor American born on 26 november 1909 at Los Angeles (USA)

Frances Dee

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Birth name Frances Marion Dee
Nationality USA
Birth 26 november 1909 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 6 march 2004 (at 94 years) at Norwalk (USA)

Frances Marion Dee (November 26, 1909 – March 6, 2004) was an American 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 retitled remake, A Place in the Sun.

Biography

Elle fut mariée à Joel McCrea.

Best films

Little Women (1933)
(Actress)

Usually with

Max Steiner
Max Steiner
(7 films)
Max Marcin
Max Marcin
(3 films)
Harry Strang
Harry Strang
(6 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Frances Dee (53 films)

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Actress

Gypsy Colt
Gypsy Colt (1954)

Directed by Andrew Marton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Western
Actors Ward Bond, Donna Corcoran, Frances Dee, Larry Keating, Lee Van Cleef, Matt Moore
Roles Em MacWade
Rating60% 3.049713.049713.049713.049713.04971
A young girl, Meg, is disheartened when her parents Frank and Em MacWade are forced to sell her favorite horse, Gypsy Colt, to a rancher. Gypsy Colt escapes several times, ultimately taking a 500-mile journey to return to her rightful owner.
Mister Scoutmaster, 1h27
Directed by Henry Levin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Clifton Webb, Edmund Gwenn, George Winslow, Frances Dee, Veda Ann Borg, Lee Aaker
Roles Helen Jordan
Rating67% 3.3882653.3882653.3882653.3882653.388265
An arrogant, aloof television personality gets more than he's bargained for when he consents to be leader to a troop of Boy Scouts. The sponsor of Robert Jordan's (Clifton Webb) TV program says he might cancel the show because Jordan appeals only to a middle-aged following and is out of touch with a younger audience.
Because of You, 1h23
Directed by Joseph Pevney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Loretta Young, Jeff Chandler, Frances Dee, Alex Nicol, Alexander Scourby, Lynne Roberts
Roles Susan Arnold
Rating64% 3.2402253.2402253.2402253.2402253.240225
A sexy blonde, still a little fresh off the farm, Christine Carroll (Loretta Young) is preparing to marry her handsome boyfriend. She finds out too late that her fiancé Mike (Alex Nicol) is a gangster and, once he slips stolen merchandise into her purse, she becomes his unwitting accessory. Though she goes to jail, she is innocent of the crime.
Payment on Demand, 1h30
Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Bette Davis, Barry Sullivan, Kent Taylor, Jane Cowl, Frances Dee, Betty Lynn
Roles Eileen Benson
Rating68% 3.4449253.4449253.4449253.4449253.444925
Reunion in Reno, 1h19
Directed by Kurt Neumann
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Mark Stevens, Peggy Dow, Gigi Perreau, Frances Dee, Leif Erickson, Ray Collins
Roles Mrs. Doris Linaker
Rating66% 3.335323.335323.335323.335323.33532
A nine-year-old girl, Maggie Linaker, gets off a bus in Reno, Nevada and goes to find Norman Drake, a divorce lawyer there. Norman has just wrapped up a divorce case, after which Laura Carson, a stenographer in Judge Kneeland's court, scolds the lawyer for accepting payments over couples' breakups, rather than trying to steer them toward reconciliation.
Four Faces West, 1h30
Directed by Alfred E. Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors Joel McCrea, Joseph Calleia, Frances Dee, Charles Bickford, William Conrad, Dan White
Roles Fay Hollister
Rating70% 3.533493.533493.533493.533493.53349
Ross McEwen pulls an unusual bank job in the New Mexico town of Santa Maria, taking the banker Frenger with him, then letting him go a few miles away, minus boots but with an I.O.U. for the $2,000 he robbed.
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami, 1h47
Directed by Robert Aldrich, Albert Lewin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Ann Dvorak, John Carradine, Warren William, Susan Douglas Rubes
Roles Marie de Varenne
Rating66% 3.3433253.3433253.3433253.3433253.343325
Paris, en 1880. Georges Duroy retrouve un ami, journaliste politique à La Vie française, Charles Forestier. Ils dînent ensemble chez le directeur du journal, Monsieur Walter. Ce dernier embauche Duroy qui prend des conseils d'écriture auprès de son ami. Celui-ci l'oriente vers sa femme, Madeleine, qui s'avère être le véritable auteur des articles du journaliste, ce dont se rend vite compte Duroy. Désormais surnommé "Bel Ami", Georges devient l'amant de Clotilde de Marelle, rencontrée au dîner, qui comprend vite qu'il est un séducteur. Après le décès de Charles Forestier atteint de tuberculose, Georges épouse sa veuve et profite à son tour de ses talents de chroniqueuse.
Patrick the Great, 1h24
Directed by Frank Ryan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Actors Donald O'Connor, Peggy Ryan, Frances Dee, Donald Cook, Eve Arden, Gavin Muir
Roles Lynn Andrews
Rating65% 3.2967353.2967353.2967353.2967353.296735
Happy Land
Happy Land (1943)
, 1h15
Directed by Irving Pichel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Political films, Children's films
Actors Don Ameche, Frances Dee, Harry Carey, Ann Rutherford, Cara Williams, Harry Morgan
Roles Agnes Marsh
Rating66% 3.3394153.3394153.3394153.3394153.339415
While at a luncheon with his wife, Lew Marsh receives a message that his only beloved son Rusty has been killed in action. Lew, a third generation pharmacist in the small town of Hartfield, Iowa, is beside himself with grief, and beyond consolation from reverend Wood and his wife, Agnes. Because of the grief he neglects his duties at the pharmacy and isolates himself.
I Walked with a Zombie, 1h8
Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Erotic, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors Tom Conway, Frances Dee, James Ellison, Edith Barrett, Boris Karloff, James Bell
Roles Betsy Connell
Rating69% 3.4971953.4971953.4971953.4971953.497195
Betsy Connell (Frances Dee), a Canadian nurse, relates in a voiceover how she once "walked with a zombie."
So Ends Our Night, 1h57
Directed by John Cromwell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan, Glenn Ford, Frances Dee, Anna Sten, Erich von Stroheim
Roles Marie Steiner
Rating67% 3.389793.389793.389793.389793.38979
The story begins in 1937 Austria, before the German occupation which would arrive the following year. Josef Steiner (Fredric March) is a middle-aged German veteran who has been an ideological opponent to the Nazi regime from its inception and already escaped from two years in a concentration camp. He's in hiding in a dodgy Austrian boarding house with young Ludwig Kern (Glenn Ford in an early and outstanding performance), a bewildered 19-year-old German from a prosperous family that was found to have Jewish forebears when the Nazis came to power and now "half-Aryan," are abruptly deprived of their German citizenship and passports, rendered stateless and ordered to leave the country.
A Man Betrayed, 1h22
Directed by John H. Auer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Actors John Wayne, Frances Dee, Wallace Ford, Edward Ellis, Kay Hughes, Ward Bond
Roles Sabra Cameron
Rating59% 2.9507152.9507152.9507152.9507152.950715
Johnny Smith, un joueur de basket, fête la victoire de son équipe dans le Club Inferno de Temple City. Il se rend compte que les dés avec lesquels il joue sont pipés. Lorsqu'il s'en prend au propriétaire du club, T. Amato, il est abattu par le frère de celui-ci. À cause de ses connexions avec Amato, Tom Cameron, un homme politique qui craint pour sa réélection, fait en sorte que la mort de Johnny soit enregistrée comme un suicide. Lynn Hollister, un avocat ami de Johnny, a des doutes sur ce verdict et se rend à Temple City pour enquêter.
Coast Guard, 1h11
Directed by Edward Ludwig
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Randolph Scott, Frances Dee, Ralph Bellamy, Walter Connolly, Warren Hymer, Robert Middlemass
Roles Nancy Bliss
Rating60% 3.00063.00063.00063.00063.0006
Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower (Ralph Bellamy) commands a United States Coast Guard rescue ship. His best friend in the Coast Guard, Lieutenant Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw (Randolph Scott), is a highly regarded, but reckless pilot. In a daring rescue at sea, both men are involved in saving Tobias Bliss (Walter Connolly), the captain of a tramp steamer. At the base hospital, the two officers visit the rescued man and meet Nancy (Frances Dee), his granddaughter. Both friends fall in love with her, but Speed proposes first; broken-hearted, Ray still acts as the best man at the wedding.
If I Were King, 1h41
Directed by Frank Lloyd
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone, Frances Dee, Ellen Drew, C.V. France, Henry Wilcoxon
Roles Katherine de Vaucelles
Rating70% 3.5418253.5418253.5418253.5418253.541825
King Louis XI of France (Basil Rathbone) is in desperate straits. He is besieged in Paris by the Burgundians and suspects that there is a traitor in his court. He goes in disguise to a tavern to see who accepts a message from the enemy. While there, he is amused by the antics of poet François Villon (Ronald Colman), who has stolen food from the royal storehouse. The rascal criticizes the king and brags about how much better he would do if he were in Louis' place.