Frances 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.
Frances Dee Movies
Frances Dee Quotes
Cultural Differences and Personal Resilience
Mrs. Rand:
These people are primitive. Things that are natural to them might shock and horrify you.
Betsy Connell:
I'm not easily frightened.
Mrs. Rand:
That may be the pity of it.
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Perceptions of Voodoo and Its Practice
Betsy Connell:
I thought voodoo was something everyone was frightened of?
Paul Holland:
I'm afraid it's not very frightening. They sing and dance and carry on. And then, as I understand it, one of the gods comes down and speaks through one of the people.
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