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Frances Dee OBITUARY
Frances Dee, a dark-haired beauty who co-starred in the 1930s and 1940s with Maurice Chevalier, Gary Cooper, Ronald Colman and her husband, Joel McCrea, has died.
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She was 94.
Ms. Dee died March 6 at a hospital in Norwalk, Conn., said her son, Peter McCrea. She had suffered a stroke three weeks earlier after spending the winter with her son at his home in Connecticut.
Ms. Dee achieved stardom in 1930 opposite Chevalier in one of the first talkie musicals, ” The Playboy of Paris.
” Her beauty earned her leading roles in comedies and dramas, notably in the 1931 ” An American Tragedy ” as Sondra Finchley, the role played by Elizabeth Taylor in the 1951 remake ” A Place in the Sun.
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Her credits also included ” Souls at Sea ” with Cooper and George Raft; ” Little Women, ” starring Katharine Hepburn; ” If I Were King ” with Colman; and ” Of Human Bondage, ” in which she