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I was sorry to hear this:
Hollywood screen beauty Frances Dee dies
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES -- Frances Dee, the stunning actress who co-starred in the 1930s and 1940s with Maurice Chevalier, Gary Cooper, Ronald Colman and her husband, Joel McCrea, has died.Dee died Saturday at Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk, Conn., where her son, Peter McCrea, lived, said family friend Andrew Wentink, who is writing a biography about Dee. The actress had been at the hospital since having a stroke three weeks ago.
Her family listed Dee's age as 94, though other sources put her age at 96....
I sat right in front of Ms. Dee a couple of years ago at Film Forum here in NYC. She was terribly frail, physically, but mentally very sharp in speaking to the crowd after the movie.
Film Forum was screening a pre-code film that night in which Dee played a small role, and afterward she quipped that, while watching the film, she was on the edge of her seat because she had no earthly idea what was in store for her character. She had no memory whatsoever of making the movie (due not to her advanced age, but to the fact that the filming had occurred so long ago, and they'd cranked out movies at such a pace in those days).
She was quite funny that night and very charming. May she rest in peace.
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