Sandra Dee

Known for ActingBorn 1942-04-23Died 2005-02-20Bayonne, New Jersey, USA

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sandra Dee, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Rosie!

The Man Hunter

Frasier

Night Gallery

Fantasy Island

Houston, We've Got a Problem

Imitation of Life

The Restless Years

The Oscars

Come September

Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding!

The Reluctant Debutante

I'd Rather Be Rich

A Summer Place

Police Woman

Tammy Tell Me True

That Funny Feeling

Until They Sail

The Wild and the Innocent

The Sixth Sense

The Steve Allen Show

If a Man Answers

Gidget

Romanoff and Juliet

Portrait in Black

Take Her, She's Mine

The Daughters of Joshua Cabe

The Dunwich Horror

Tammy and the Doctor

Lost

A Man Could Get Killed

A Stranger in My Arms