Frances Dee
Frances Dee (* November 26, 1909 in Los Angeles, California, † June 3, 2004 in Norwalk, Connecticut, actually: Frances Marion Dee - other sources: Jean Dee ) was an American actress, her best roles early in the sound era played.
Life
Frances Dee began her career in 1929 as an extra before it was taken in 1930 by a talent scout for Paramount Pictures under contract and was once used as a Leading Lady on the side of Maurice Chevalier in Playboy of Paris. In 1931 she was voted one of WAMPAS Baby Stars.
In the following years she mostly played supporting roles and occasional took over the leading role in B- movies. Among the few challenging part was the appearance in Josef von Sternberg's adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy from 1931 alongside Sylvia Sidney. 1933, after moving to RKO, she starred with Katharine Hepburn in Little Women, directed by George Cukor.
During the filming of The Silver Cord, a melodrama with Irene Dunne in the lead role, she fell in the same year 1933, the male star of the strip, Joel McCrea. Both were married some time later and remained until McCrea's death in 1990 a pair. The marriage of the two was considered a happy and went without scandals and they were occasionally still together in movies. Her son Jody McCrea worked as an actor.
In 1954, Frances Dee retired from the film business. She died in 2004 at the age of 94 of a heart attack.