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Quotes I wanted to give up my career when I married Joel, but he wouldn`t let me. I thought marriage, a home, husband and family were all I wanted. Joel knew I was sincere in my belief but he was wise enough to realize that sooner or later I might miss my work and blame him.
Trivia First grew interested in acting when she was cast as the lead in a senior play at Hyde Park High School.
Born in Los Angeles, she and older sister Margaret (born in 1908) moved when she was quite young to Cincinnati, then to Washington D.C., before finally settling in the Hyde Park area of Chicago where the sisters attended Shakespeare Grammar School.
Had three sons by actor McCrea: Jody McCrea (born 1934), David McCrea (born 1935) and Peter McCrea (born 1955). Son Peter eventually married Jack Lemmon`s daughter Courtney on March 24, 2001. Both Jody and David and their families live in New Mexico. Frances passed away in Connecticut where she was staying with son Peter.
In 1935 she and her husband Joel MCrea were separated, but soon reconciled. Joel McCrea filed for divorce in 1966, charging Frances with cruelty. But the couple stayed married until McCrea`s death.
In 1970, she and husband McCrea were rumored to be worth between fifty and one hundred million dollars. (Their 57-year marriage ended in 1990, the year of his death.)
In 1995 she donated 220 acres of her Thousand Oaks California ranch to the Conejo Recreation and Park District to be preserved as parkland. Earlier in 1981 she and Joel had given 75 acres to the District.
Met future husband Joel McCrea on the set of The Silver Cord (1933). He had been smitten after seeing her in the movie An American Tragedy (1931) and requested that she be cast in his movie. During the filming, however, she was seeing off-screen co-star Eric Linden. Joel and Frances began courting after the movie was completed and her romance with Linden was over. It was her relationship with McCrea that compelled her to sign with RKO.
She accepted the role in I Walked with a Zombie (1943) so that she could use her salary to purchase a new automobile for her mother.
She quit acting in the mid-1950s, and said she didn`t miss it.
The nonagenarian actress was a huge hit at the 1998 Memphis Film Festival in Tunica, Mississippi. Dee`s biographer Andrew Wentink said she gained new fame in the 1990s for her role in films that forced the adoption of a Hollywood code on morality in the 1930s.
Was initially screen tested for the role of Scarlett O`Hara and was actually George Cukor`s first choice for the role of Melanie in `Gone with the Wind` (1939)_, but was deemed by David O. Selznick as being too similar in beauty to Vivien Leigh to play the role. Olivia de Havilland won the part.
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