Cast: Frances Dee

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Frances Dee. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


I Walked with a Zombie

1943 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast James Ellison · Frances Dee · Tom Conway · Edith Barrett

Plot Nurse Betsy Conwell takes up a position on the West Indies island of St Sebastian tending Jessica, the wife of plantation owner Paul Holland, whose mind has been burnt out...

7.1

5K votes

7.1

5K votes

Little Women

1933 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Joan Bennett · Paul Lukas · Frances Dee

Plot Josephine March and her three sisters Margaret, Amy, and Beth grow up with their mother's guidance while their father fights in the American Civil War (1861 to 1865). The vivacious...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

1947 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Albert Lewin

Cast George Sanders · Angela Lansbury · Ann Dvorak · John Carradine

Plot Writer Georges Duroy (George Sanders) is one social-climbing S.O.B. who does most of his climbing over the warm (and cold) bodies of women. He begins with Rachel (Marie Wilson), a...

6.8

154 votes

6.8

154 votes

Of Human Bondage

1934 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Leslie Howard · Bette Davis · Frances Dee · Kay Johnson

Plot The interior life of a natural-born introvert is a tricky thing to convey in any story medium, but perhaps nowhere more than in feature films. Fortunately for this 1934 version...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Four Faces West

1948 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Joel McCrea · Frances Dee · Charles Bickford · Joseph Calleia

Plot Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks about securing a loan that large, McEwen shows him his six-gun...

6.6

213 votes

6.6

213 votes

Souls at Sea

1937 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Gary Cooper · George Raft · Frances Dee · Henry Wilcoxon

Plot Cooper and Raft save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about slave trade on the high seas in 1842.

6.6

391 votes

6.6

391 votes

If I Had a Million

1932 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch · Norman Taurog · Norman Z. McLeod · William A. Seiter

Cast Gary Cooper · Charles Laughton · George Raft · Jack Oakie

Plot Buoyant, star-studded comedy about a dying steel tycoon (Richard Bennett) who randomly selects eight people from a phone book and gives them each a million dollars. Among the lucky recipients...

6.6

856 votes

6.6

856 votes

Complicated Women (TV)

2003 · Documentary · 60 min. · United States

Direction Hugh Munro Neely

Cast Jane Fonda · Frances Dee · Kitty Carlisle · Molly Haskell

Plot Jane Fonda narrates the story of the years between the ascent of talkies until late in 1934, when the Hays Office cracked down on what it perceived as immorality in...

6.6

67 votes

6.6

67 votes

An American Tragedy

1931 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Phillips Holmes · Sylvia Sidney · Frances Dee · Irving Pichel

Plot Though his parents are street evangelists, Clyde Griffiths (Phillips Holmes) grows up in squalor, but not without ambitions. He first works as a bellhop in Kansas City, but when he's...

6.6

125 votes

6.6

125 votes

The Gay Deception

1935 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Francis Lederer · Frances Dee · Benita Hume · Alan Mowbray

Plot Mirabel wins a $5,000 lottery which will enable her to live like a queen in New York. There she meets Sandro, a bellboy who is really a prince, so she...

6.6

22 votes

6.6

22 votes

If I Were King

1938 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Ronald Colman · Basil Rathbone · Frances Dee · Ellen Drew

Plot In 1463, Paris is besieged by the Duke of Burgundy, arch-rival of the king, who is content to sit tight while the poor starve. But there are traitors in Paris,...

6.4

110 votes

6.4

110 votes

So Ends Our Night

1941 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Fredric March · Margaret Sullavan · Frances Dee · Glenn Ford

Plot An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence. When the political refugee risks his life to see his...

6.2

89 votes

6.2

89 votes

Finishing School

1934 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction George Nichols Jr. · Wanda Tuchock

Cast Frances Dee · Billie Burke · Ginger Rogers · Bruce Cabot

Plot Virginia Radcliff, a remarkably unspoiled but naive rich-kid, finds herself at a swank girls' school where everything appears prim and proper, but the motto is essentially "Don't Get Caught." On...

6.2

55 votes

6.2

55 votes

Blood Money

1933 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Rowland Brown

Cast George Bancroft · Judith Anderson · Frances Dee · Chick Chandler

Plot Bill Bailey is a bail bondsman who's been helping out the mob for years. He falls for a pretty shoplifter named Elaine. She's actually slumming, as she's from a wealthy...

6.2

31 votes

6.2

31 votes

The Silver Cord

1933 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Irene Dunne · Joel McCrea · Laura Hope Crews · Eric Linden

Plot A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately sets to work at sabotaging their marriage as well as the engagement of...

5.9

71 votes

5.9

71 votes

Becky Sharp

1935 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Miriam Hopkins · Frances Dee · Cedric Hardwicke · Billie Burke

Plot Becky and Amelia are girls at school together, but Becky is from a "show biz" family, or in other words, very low class. Becky manages to insinuate herself in Amelia's...

5.8

116 votes

5.8

116 votes

Wells Fargo

1937 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Joel McCrea · Bob Burns · Frances Dee · Lloyd Nolan

Plot This is one of those history lesson films that tell us an interesting story about the expansion of this country, the failure of the US Post Office to meet the...

5.8

34 votes

5.8

34 votes

Love Is a Racket

1932 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Ann Dvorak · Frances Dee · Lee Tracy

Plot A beautiful girl convinces a reporter to cover up her involvement in a murder.

5.6

36 votes

5.6

36 votes

A Man Betrayed

1941 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction John H. Auer

Cast John Wayne · Frances Dee · Edward Ellis · Wallace Ford

Plot Country lawyer Lynn Hollister comes to the city to investigate the death of a friend who is found shot to death after spending the evening in The Inferno, a night...

5.0

23 votes

5.0

23 votes

Keep 'Em Rolling

1934 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction George Archainbaud

Cast Walter Huston · Frances Dee · Minna Gombell · Frank Conroy

Plot Sergeant Benny Walsh, a U.S. Army artilleryman, and his horse, Rodney, share a kindred spirit that is sympathetic to each other's needs. After years of service to his country, Sergeant...

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