Frances Marion Dee (November 26, 1909 – March 6, 2004) was an American actress. She starred opposite Maurice Chevalier in the early talkie musical, The Playboy of Paris (1930). She starred in the film An American Tragedy (1931) in a role later recreated by Elizabeth Taylor in the 1951 remake of the aforementioned movie A Place in the Sun.
Dee was born Frances (some sources indicate Jean) Marion Dee in Los Angeles, California, where her Army offic...
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Frances Marion Dee (November 26, 1909 – March 6, 2004) was an American actress. She starred opposite Maurice Chevalier in the early talkie musical, The Playboy of Paris (1930). She starred in the film An American Tragedy (1931) in a role later recreated by Elizabeth Taylor in the 1951 remake of the aforementioned movie A Place in the Sun.
Dee was born Frances (some sources indicate Jean) Marion Dee in Los Angeles, California, where her Army officer father was stationed, and grew up in Chicago, Illinois, where she attended Shakespeare Grammar School and Hyde Park High School, where she went by the nickname of Frankie Dee.
After graduating from Hyde Park High in 1927, of which she was Vice President of her senior class, as well as voted Belle of the Year, she spent two years at University of Chicago before returning to California.
Following her sophomore year in 1929, she went on summer vacation with her mother and older sister to visit family in the Los Angeles, California area. She...
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