Sandra Dee
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.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 16.708 |
Birthday | 1942-04-23 |
Place of Birth | Bayonne, New Jersey, USA |
Also Known As | Alexandra Zuck, |
1961
Come September
6.725/71
Robert Talbot, an American millionaire, arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa. His long-time girlfriend Lisa has given...
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Come September
1959
Imitation of Life
7.433/267
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.
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Imitation of Life
1959
Gidget
6.026/39
Due to an accident while swimming in the sea, Francis meets the surfer Moondoggie. She's fascinated with his sport and starts to hang out with his cli...
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Gidget
1965
That Funny Feeling
5.9/17
Joan Howell, a young and pretty maid-for-hire, meets and begins dating wealthy New York City businessman Tom Milford. Embarrassed about bringing him b...
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That Funny Feeling
1961
Tammy Tell Me True
5.714/7
Tammy leaves the river in Mississippi to attend college, developing a relationship with Tom Freeman (John Gavin). Sandra Dee replaces Debbie Reynolds...
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Tammy Tell Me True
1963
Take Her, She's Mine
5/6
After reluctantly packing up his daughter, Mollie, and sending her away to study art at a Paris college, Frank Michaelson gives new meaning to the ter...
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Take Her, She's Mine
1958
The Reluctant Debutante
6.7/36
While visiting her father, an American teenage girl is thrown into London society during its final "Debutante Season."
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The Reluctant Debutante
1962
If a Man Answers
5.9/25
Rich socialite Chantal marries photographer Eugene and everything seems blissful until her envious friend attempts to break them up. In desperation, s...
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If a Man Answers
1970
The Dunwich Horror
5.391/101
Dr. Henry Armitage, an expert in the occult, goes to the old Whateley manor in Dunwich looking for Nancy Wagner, a student who went missing the previo...
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The Dunwich Horror
1960
Portrait in Black
5.6/21
A pair of lovers plot to kill the woman's rich husband.
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Portrait in Black
1963
Tammy and the Doctor
5.2/8
Tammy becomes a nurse's aide, works in a hospital, cares for an old rich woman, and causes romantic commotion in the life of Dr. Mark Cheswick.
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Tammy and the Doctor
1959
A Summer Place
6.5/46
A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequence...
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A Summer Place
1958
The Restless Years
0/0
A pretty, sheltered teenager falls for a boy from the wrong side of town.
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The Restless Years
1957
Until They Sail
6.5/24
Four sisters in New Zealand fall for soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII.
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Until They Sail
1972
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
5.2/5
Due to a home-steading law, a fur trapper schemes to keep his land by hiring a hooker, a pickpocket and a thief to pose as his family.
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The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
1961
Romanoff and Juliet
5.4/8
Political satire has Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet story updated for the cold war era, with the children of the US and Russian ambassadors falling...
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Romanoff and Juliet
1967
Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding!
5.5/2
In this comedy, an aspiring singer finds herself single and pregnant. The story begins when she is rushed to the hospital to give birth. She is joined...
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Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding!
1964
I'd Rather Be Rich
5.3/3
An updated remake of It Started With Eve (1941). A young heiress is summoned to the bedside of her dying grandfather. The man's last wish is to meet h...
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I'd Rather Be Rich
1966
A Man Could Get Killed
3.8/6
An American businessman visiting Lisbon gets mistaken for a British secret agent who stole some diamonds. As a result, he has everybody in Lisbon afte...
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A Man Could Get Killed
1967
Rosie!
0/0
An eccentric Los Angeles dowager decides to fight back when her two greedy daughters attempt to have her declared legally insane.
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Rosie!
1974
Houston, We've Got a Problem
6/1
NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three...
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Houston, We've Got a Problem
1959
A Stranger in My Arms
2.3/3
An Air Force pilot finds romance with his war buddy's widow.
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A Stranger in My Arms
1972
The Man Hunter
6/1
A professional hunter is brought in to track a bank robbery suspect through a Louisiana swamp, and winds up getting romantically involved with the sus...
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The Man Hunter
1959
The Wild and the Innocent
6.3/20
Charming tale of mountaineer-trapper Murphy's first taste "big city" life with young, sweet Sandra Dee in tow. She flees her family, which tried to tr...
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The Wild and the Innocent
1983
Lost
4.4/5
A little girl gets lost in the wilds of Utah.
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Lost
1977
Fantasy Island
6/1
Mr. Roarke and his assistant Tattoo greet a former reporter in World War II who wants to relive a brief romance that took place in London 30 years ago...
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