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.[1]
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 marked by alcoholism, mental illness, and reclusiveness, particularly after her mother died in 1987. Dee sought medical and psychological help in the early 1990s and died in 2005 of complications from kidney disease, brought on by lifelong anorexia nervosa.
SandraDee (born Alexandra Zuck; April 23, 1942 – February 20, 2005) was an American actress. Dee began her career as a child model, working first in...
SandraDee Robinson, also sometimes credited as Sandra Robinson (born March 23, 1967), is an American actress, former beauty pageant contestant, and founder...
for his first film, Come September, co-starring his first wife, actress SandraDee. During the 1960s, Darin became more politically active and worked on...
films, playing Dawn Schiller in the true crime film Wonderland (2003) and SandraDee in the Bobby Darin biographical drama Beyond the Sea (2004). She portrayed...
starring Jean Simmons, Joan Fontaine, Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, and SandraDee. The screenplay by Robert Anderson, based on a story by James A. Michener...
directed by Helmut Käutner and starring June Allyson, Jeff Chandler, SandraDee, Charles Coburn, Mary Astor and Peter Graves. A Korean War test pilot...
directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, SandraDee and Bobby Darin. Wealthy American businessman Robert Talbot owns a villa...
American Eastmancolor comedy film directed by Harry Keller and starring SandraDee and John Gavin, Beulah Bondi, Charles Drake, Virginia Grey and Julia Meade...
various locations in Portugal and starring James Garner, Melina Mercouri, SandraDee, Anthony Franciosa, and Robert Coote. Filmed scenes with Jenny Agutter...
Henry Levin and stars then real-life husband-and-wife Bobby Darin and SandraDee. It was produced by Ross Hunter Productions, Inc, shot in Eastman color...
shared the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress with SandraDee and Diane Varsi, and appeared with Elvis Presley in King Creole (1958)...
Paul Wendkos and released by Columbia Pictures: Gidget (1959), starring SandraDee (screenplay by Gabrielle Upton) Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961), starring...
directed by Richard Thorpe and starring SandraDee, Bobby Darin, and Donald O'Connor. This was the third film pairing of Dee and then-husband Darin, following...
Look up dee in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dee or DEE may refer to: Dee, an alternate spelling of the Welsh surname Day Dee, a romanization of several...
black. The big break of Donahue's career came when he was cast opposite SandraDee in the 1959 Warner Bros' film A Summer Place, directed by Delmer Daves...
Max Steiner, written for the 1959 film A Summer Place, which starred SandraDee and Troy Donahue. It was recorded for the film as an instrumental by Hugo...
Eastmancolor romantic comedy film directed by Harry Keller and starring SandraDee as Tambrey "Tammy" Tyree and Peter Fonda (in his film debut) as Dr. Mark...
Bonanza, and played the lead in AIP's The Dunwich Horror (1970) with SandraDee. He also had a key part in Dennis Hopper's The Last Movie (1971). In 1985...
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