Birthday star Frances Dee in period costume for the seafaring adventure SOULS AT SEA (1937). Dee was born in Los Angeles on November 26, 1909 where her father was working as a civil-service examiner. She attended Shakespeare Grammar School and Hyde Park High School, where she went by the nickname of Frankie Dee. 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 began working as a movie extra and her big break came when, still an extra, she was offered the lead opposite Maurice Chevalier in "Playboy of Paris" (1930). Dee's additional screen credits include "June Moon" (1931), "Little Women" (1933), "Of Human Bondage" (1934), "Becky Sharp" (1935), and "Payment on Demand" (1951). Dee met actor Joel McCrea on the set of the 1933 film "The Silver Cord" and the couple married in 1933 after a whirlwind courtship, and remained married until McCrea's death in 1990. Color by #hollywoodpinups #FrancesDee #birthdaystar https://www.instagram.com/p/BqrSTGThhiE/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=14knx4zw4pbcn
