Sandra Dee
Actor
Biography
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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Filmography
The Dunwich Horror
as Nancy Wagner 1970
Come September
as Sandy Stevens 1961
A Summer Place
as Molly Jorgenson 1959
Gidget
as Gidget 1959
The Reluctant Debutante
as Jane Broadbent 1958
Until They Sail
as Evelyn Leslie 1957
If a Man Answers
as Chantal Stacy 1962
Portrait in Black
as Cathy Cabot 1960
That Funny Feeling
as Joan Howell 1965
The Wild and the Innocent
as Rosalie 1959
Tammy Tell Me True
as Tambrey 'Tammy' Tyree 1961
Take Her, She's Mine
as Mollie Michaelson 1963
Tammy and the Doctor
as Tammy Tyree 1963
Romanoff and Juliet
as Juliet Moulsworth 1961
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
as Ada 1972
A Man Could Get Killed
as Amy Franklin 1966