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Sandra Dee

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Sandra Dee

Born April 23, 1942 in Bayonne, New Jersey, USADied February 20, 200526 films

Sandra Dee (born Alexandra Zuck; April 23, 1942 – February 20, 2005) was an American actress. Dee began her career as a child model, working first in commercials, and then film in her teenage years. Best known for her portrayal of ingénues, Dee earned a Golden Globe Award as one of the year's most promising newcomers for her performance in Robert Wise's Until They Sail (1958). She became a teenage star for her performances in Imitation of Life and Gidget (both 1959), which made her a household name.

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By the late 1960s, her career had started to decline, and a highly publicized marriage to Bobby Darin ended in divorce. The year of her divorce, Dee's contract with Universal Pictures was dropped. She attempted a comeback with the 1970 independent horror film The Dunwich Horror, but rarely acted after this time, appearing only occasionally in television productions throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. The rest of the decade was marred by alcoholism, mental illness, plus near total reclusiveness, particularly after her mother died in 1988. Afterwards she sought medical and psychological help in the early 1990s, and died in 2005 of complications from kidney disease, brought on by lifelong anorexia nervosa.

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Imitation of Life posterFirst watchImitation of Life19597.4as Susie (16)In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid.View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
Come September poster6.8Come September1961A Summer Place poster6.6A Summer Place1959The Dunwich Horror poster5.3The Dunwich Horror1970

Filmography

26 films as actor
  1. 1983LostPenny Morrison
  2. 1977Fantasy IslandFrancesca Hamilton
  3. 1974Houston, We've Got a ProblemAngie Cordell
  4. 1972The Daughters of Joshua CabeAda
  5. 1972The Man HunterMara Bocock
  6. 1970The Dunwich HorrorNancy Wagner
  7. 1967Rosie!Daphne Shaw
  8. 1967Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding!Heather Halloran
  9. 1966A Man Could Get KilledAmy Franklin
  10. 1965That Funny FeelingJoan
  11. 1964I'd Rather Be RichCynthia Dulaine
  12. 1963Take Her, She's MineMollie Michaelson
  13. 1963Tammy and the DoctorTammy Tyree
  14. 1962If a Man AnswersChantal Stacy
  15. 1961Come SeptemberSandy Stevens
  16. 1961Tammy Tell Me TrueTambrey 'Tammy' Tyree
  17. 1961Romanoff and JulietJuliet Moulsworth
  18. 1960Portrait in BlackCathy Cabot
  19. 1959A Summer PlaceMolly Jorgenson
  20. 1959The Wild and the InnocentRosalie
  21. 1959Imitation of LifeSusie (16)
  22. 1959GidgetGidget
  23. 1959A Stranger in My ArmsPat Beasley
  24. 1958The Restless YearsMelinda Grant
  25. 1958The Reluctant DebutanteJane Broadbent
  26. 1957Until They SailEvelyn Leslie