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Sandra Dee
Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
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…
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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. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sandra Dee, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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1993
Frasier
TV show Connie (voice)
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1983
Lost
Movie Penny Morrison
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1977
Fantasy Island
Movie Francesca Hamilton
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1974
Police Woman
TV show
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1974
Houston, We've Got a Problem
Movie Angie Cordell
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1972
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
Movie Ada
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1972
The Man Hunter
Movie Mara Bocock
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1972
The Sixth Sense
TV show
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1970
Night Gallery
TV show Ann Bolt (segment "Tell David...")
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1970
The Dunwich Horror
Movie Nancy Wagner
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1967
Rosie!
Movie Daphne Shaw
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1967
Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding!
Movie Heather Halloran
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1966
A Man Could Get Killed
Movie Amy Franklin
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1965
That Funny Feeling
Movie Joan
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1964
I'd Rather Be Rich
Movie Cynthia Dulaine
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1963
Take Her, She's Mine
Movie Mollie Michaelson
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1963
Tammy and the Doctor
Movie Tammy Tyree
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1962
If a Man Answers
Movie Chantal Stacy
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1961
Come September
Movie Sandy Stevens
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1961
Tammy Tell Me True
Movie Tambrey 'Tammy' Tyree
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1961
Romanoff and Juliet
Movie Juliet Moulsworth
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1960
Portrait in Black
Movie Cathy Cabot
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1959
A Summer Place
Movie Molly Jorgenson
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1959
The Wild and the Innocent
Movie Rosalie
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1959
Imitation of Life
Movie Susie (16)
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1959
Gidget
Movie Gidget
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1959
A Stranger in My Arms
Movie Pat Beasley
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1958
The Restless Years
Movie Melinda Grant
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1958
The Reluctant Debutante
Movie Jane Broadbent
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1957
Until They Sail
Movie Evelyn Leslie
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1956
The Steve Allen Show
TV show Self - Recipient
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1953
The Oscars
TV show Self
