Frances Dee
Also Known As: Frances Marion Dee, Frances Dee McCrea, Jean Dee
Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birthday: November 26, 1909
Deathday: March 06, 2004
Adult: No
Gender: Female
Popularity:
Known For:
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
Overview: 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 occasionally lived in during the period.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-12
Popularity:
A Man Betrayed
Overview: 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 actually a crook. The price of integrity is sweet in this instance, since Wayne happens to be in love with the politician's daughter (Frances Dee).
Genres: Drama Crime Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-07
Popularity:
I Walked with a Zombie
Overview: 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.
Genres: Mystery Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-21
Popularity:
Blood Money
Overview: The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey, who, in the course of his work, crosses paths with every kind of offender there is, from first-time defendants to career criminals.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-17
Popularity:
Souls at Sea
Overview: Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-03
Popularity:
Becky Sharp
Overview: The first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor film. Adapted from a play that was adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's book "Vanity Fair", the film looks at the English class system during the Napoleonic Wars era.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-28
Popularity:
Of Human Bondage
Overview: A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-20
Popularity:
Four Faces West
Overview: 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 his six-gun collateral. The banker hands over the money in exchange for an I.O.U., signed "Jefferson Davis". McEwen rides out of town and catches a train, but not before being bitten by a rattler. On the train, a nurse, Miss Hollister, tends to his wound. A posse searches the train, but McEwen manages to escape notice. However a mysterious Mexican has taken note of the cowboy, and that loudmouthed brat is still nosing around. Who will be the first to claim the reward for the robber's capture?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-03
Popularity:
Little Women
Overview: Four sisters come of age during the American Civil War. With their father away fighting, the family, headed by their mother, experiences tribulations, joy, and kindness from their wealthy neighbor and his high-spirited grandson.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-24
Popularity:
The Gay Deception
Overview: 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 seems.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-13
Popularity:
Payment on Demand
Overview: David gives his wife, Joyce, an unexpected—and unpleasant—surprise when he suddenly demands a divorce. When she then learns that David has taken up with a younger woman, Joyce decides to make the most of this separation by taking a solo trip to the Caribbean. However, just before diving into a vacation fling, she runs into Emily, an old chum whose own divorce has left her embittered. Joyce then debates giving married life one last chance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-03
Popularity:
An American Tragedy
Overview: A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-22
Popularity:
Love Is a Racket
Overview: A gossip columnist helps a Broadway ingenue who's beholden to a penthouse gangster.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-18
Popularity:
Meet the Stewarts
Overview: A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-21
Popularity:
The Crime of the Century
Overview: Driven to desperation by his young and extravagant wife, alienist Dr. Emil Brandt has arranged a perfect crime; now he begs the police to lock him up before he can commit it.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-18
Popularity:
If I Had a Million
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-18
Popularity:
Mister Scoutmaster
Overview: 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 Scout leader in an effort to "get in touch." Overnight hikes and other adventures follow, all centered around one small boy who takes a liking to the old curmudgeon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-02
Popularity:
Gypsy Colt
Overview: In this trans-species remake of Lassie, Come Home, a faithful horse undertakes a perilous journey to return to the family it loves.
Genres: Drama Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-02
Popularity:
If I Were King
Overview: 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 brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-28
Popularity:
Coast Guard
Overview: Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp steamer skipper, in a daring rescue at sea. Speed flies the injured man back to the base hospital, where the two officers later visit him. There Ray meets Nancy Bliss, Bliss' grand-daughter, and falls in love with her. Speed meets her at a dance and urges Ray to propose before some other guy does. Ray is assigned to flood rescue duty, and Speed and Nancy start going out together and discover they are in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-04
Popularity:
Wells Fargo
Overview: In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
Genres: History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-31
Popularity:
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
Overview: A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly loves him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-25
Popularity:
The Strange Case of Clara Deane
Overview: 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 criminal...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-06
Popularity:
Headline Shooter
Overview: A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-28
Popularity:
Patrick the Great
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-04
Popularity:
Finishing School
Overview: 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 director of the school and her mother oppose such a relationship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-04
Popularity:
So Ends Our Night
Overview: An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-27
Popularity:
Because of You
Overview: A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-04
Popularity:
One Man's Journey
Overview: 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 son Jimmy as well as Letty, a baby whose mother has died in childbirth and whose father blames Watt and abandons the child. Watt dreams of returning to do research studies, but always something gets in the way: an epidemic, his children's needs, or the needs of his generally ungrateful patients. Only with the passing years does he come to find that his future isn't over and his past isn't quite the failure he believed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-31
Popularity:
Happy Land
Overview: 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 had an opportunity to truly appreciate his existence.
Genres: Drama Fantasy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-10
Popularity:
Working Girls
Overview: 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 New York. With June's help, Mae obtains a job as a stenographer for the scientist Joseph von Schraeder, while June gets work as a telegraph operator at Western Union.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-12
Popularity:
Playboy of Paris
Overview: Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her. Philibert plans to marry his daughter to a wealthy Parisian, but upon learning that Albert is to come into a large inheritance, he conspires to place him under a longterm contract, confident that he willingly will pay a forfeit to break it.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-18
Popularity:
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Overview: 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 the 30s and 40s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-31
Popularity:
The Silver Cord
Overview: 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 as the engagement of her younger and weaker son.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-05
Popularity:
Complicated Women
Overview: 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 film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimensions. Good girls had lovers and babies and held down jobs, while the bad girls were cast in a sympathetic light. And they did it all without apology.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-06
Popularity:
The Night of June 13
Overview: Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that Trudie is having an affair with her husband, John, and vows revenge on Trudie. John explains to Trudie Elna's condition and plan. Trudie, being good-hearted tells John that she'll move. One evening, John returns late from work to discover Elna dead. John burns Elna's suicide note to protect Trudie. This results in John being charged for murder and put on trial.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-17
Popularity:
Half Angel
Overview: Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Reporter Duffy Giles has faith in her innocence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-22
Popularity:
Follow Thru
Overview: 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, Jack Martin, show up. Lora takes him on as her golf teacher to work on her putt. She falls for him, but so do several other women. Meanwhile Angie Howard, Lora's friend, chases after Jack. A lot of silliness ensues.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-26
Popularity:
Keep 'Em Rolling
Overview: World War I drama about a soldier and the wild horse he befriends.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-02
Popularity:
This Reckless Age
Overview: 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 they consider to be outrageous. His parents would like him to get involved with Mary Burke, a prim and proper young lady. More complications ensue because Bradley's sister Lois is attracted to the flapper lifestyle, but she isn't sure whether she can handle its emotional demands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-09
Popularity:
True to the Navy
Overview: 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 her eyes on Bull's Eye McCoy a gunner who refuses to settle down.
Genres: Action Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-25
Popularity:
King of the Jungle
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-10
Popularity:
Caught
Overview: 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). One day she hires a pretty but naive young woman to work as a saloon girl, and finds that the girl is bringing out the maternal instincts she never knew she had. Those instincts are put to the test when a US army cavalry troop arrives to clean up the town and the girl and the young lieutenant in charge of the troop fall in love, and Calamity Jane may know something about the lieutenant that the girl doesn't.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-08
Popularity:
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-02
Popularity:
Monte Carlo
Overview: A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-27
Popularity:
Rich Man's Folly
Overview: 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 shortly after giving birth to their son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-14
Popularity:
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Overview: This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-01
Popularity:
Reunion in Reno
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-09
Popularity:
June Moon
Overview: An ordinary Joe has ambitions to become a Tin Pan Alley writer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-21
Popularity:
Coming Out Party
Overview: 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 strong-willed girl initially demurs until the night of her debut. Her social adviser fills the debutante’s dance card with partners, which inflames the violinist.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-09
Popularity:
Words and Music
Overview: Phil and Pete compete for Mary's love and also in a contest for best song written by a college student.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-18
Popularity:
A Man from Wyoming
Overview: 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 girl working in the Ambulance Corps. Afterwards at a rest camp, they meet again, fall in love, and are secretly married.
Genres: War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-12
Popularity:
Along Came Youth
Overview: Broke and stranded in England, American sportsman Larry Brooks and his pal Ambrose take increasingly odd jobs to remain in proximity to the aristocratic lady that Larry would woo.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-20
Popularity:
Nice Women
Overview: A mother tries to get her daughter to marry for money, but the daughter wants to marry for love.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-28
Popularity:
Night of 100 Stars
Overview: The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-08
Popularity: