Frances Dee ~ This is a genuine vintage color tinted cigarette card from the 1930s Goldfilm series. Card #9. About 1½" x 2½" Very Good.

Brunette Frances Dee was born in Los Angeles, where her Army officer father was stationed, and grew up in Chicago after her dad was transferred there. In 1929 he was re-assigned to L.A., and (as a lark) Dee began working in motion pictures as an extra; her debut was in Words and Music with Lois Moran. After playing her breakthrough role in Playboy of Paris opposite Maurice Chevalier, she met Joel McCrea on the set of the 1933 film The Silver Cord; following a whirlwind courtship, the two were married later that year in Rye, New York. In 1970, she and McCrea were rumored to be worth between fifty and one hundred million dollars. (Their 57-year marriage ended in 1990, the year of his death.) Dee hasn't acted since the mid-'50s, and says she doesn't miss it.