Frances Dee

**scoundrel** · February 7th, 2011, 11:13 PM

Taken from the obituary of Frances Dee published in The Guardian newspaper on Wednesday 10th March, 2004:

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As the credits fade, two figures are seen advancing along a road. One is a tall, cadaverous black man, the other an attractive nurse, in crisp white uniform and cap, with a dark cloak over her shoulders. "I walked with a zombie," her voice relates. "It does seem an odd thing to say. Had anyone said that to me a year ago, I'm not at all sure I would have known what a zombie was. I might have had some notion - that they were strange and frightening, and perhaps a little funny. But I have walked with a zombie."

The nurse in Jacques Tourneur's eerie masterpiece I Walked With A Zombie (1943) was Frances Dee, that lovely star of the 1930s and 1940s, who has died aged 96. The film's most haunting moment is her nocturnal walk through a sugar-cane field on the way to a voodoo meeting. Her performance as the ostensibly pure heroine, unselfishly attempting to bring the zombie wife of the man she loves back to life, lent the film the credibility it needed. It was also a high point in the career of Dee, who will be remembered as a classy dame.

A classy dame. In a tradition exemplified by Jean Arthur just slightly before her and Doris Day, not long after she effectively retired, Frances Dee was very beautiful in a really wholesome and honest way. She was an emblem of motherhood and apple pie; but good girls can still be sexy, and she was. She was also, as The Guardian writer rightly indicated, a very good actress indeed. She was in the running for Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind and was no doubt bitterly disappointed to lose out, but that film was an unholy piece of garbage and I'm glad for her that she is remembered for I Walked With a Zombie instead. That was a really good film.

Here's a small gallery to show how very very pretty she was and to start the ball rolling on this thread.

**george anson** · February 12th, 2011, 10:52 AM

**zwaik** · February 13th, 2011, 08:29 AM

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"The Playboy of Paris" 1930 - photo Otto Dyar

**george anson** · July 31st, 2011, 11:51 AM

**zwaik** · August 7th, 2011, 07:51 AM

**zwaik** · August 8th, 2011, 06:44 AM

good resolution (1230x1556)

groat · June 8th, 2012, 11:00 PM

To my eternal shame I'd never heard of Frances Dee until I happened upon this thread (thanks, scoundrel.)

Here are a few more images I've found which illustrate just how beautiful she was. All credit to the original uploaders.

**L00N** · June 10th, 2012, 04:15 AM

1693 x 1750

**johnbear** · June 22nd, 2013, 10:57 PM

deadpost

**kelio** · August 3rd, 2013, 07:01 AM

HQ (2500 × 1958)
Credit to OP

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groat Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 40 Thanks: 2,816 Thanked 1,355 Times in 60 Posts	To my eternal shame I'd never heard of Frances Dee until I happened upon this thread (thanks, scoundrel.) Here are a few more images I've found which illustrate just how beautiful she was. All credit to the original uploaders.

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