Frances Dee — Actor (21)

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Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 (1933)
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A promotional film featuring movie stars at play. Richard Arlen plays a magician who turns playing cards into celebrities. Includes Buster Keaton in a Napoleonic admiral suit in his "land yacht", a custom-built bus he occasionally lived in during the period.

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Coming Out Party (1934)
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other title: 春心蕩漾
In this romance, a lovely young debutante falls in love with a jazz violinist. Her mother wants her to marry a wealthy young man, but the strong-willed girl initially demurs until the night of her debut. Her social adviser fills the debutante’s dance card with partners, which inflames the violinist.

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This Reckless Age (1932)
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Donald Ingals and his wife Eunice are conventional and loving parents who are shocked when their son Bradley comes home from college with ideas that they consider to be outrageous. His parents would like him to get involved with Mary Burke, a prim and proper young lady. More complications ensue because Bradley's sister Lois is attracted to the flapper lifestyle, but she isn't sure whether she can handle its emotional demands.

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Caught (1931)
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other title: 重重围捕
Calamity Jane is a tough and rowdy woman in the old West who owns a saloon and gambling joint (and runs a cattle rustling operation as a sideline). One day she hires a pretty but naive young woman to work as a saloon girl, and finds that the girl is bringing out the maternal instincts she never knew she had. Those instincts are put to the test when a US army cavalry troop arrives to clean up the town and the girl and the young lieutenant in charge of the troop fall in love, and Calamity Jane may know something about the lieutenant that the girl doesn't.

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Wells Fargo (1937)
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other title: 英雄眷属 / Frisco-Express …
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.

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Mister Scoutmaster (1953)
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other title: 童軍教練 / Director de demonios
Snobby TV star, Robert Jordan, worries that he is out of touch with the younger generation and that's why his TV show is failing. He becomes a Boy Scout leader in an effort to "get in touch." Overnight hikes and other adventures follow, all centered around one small boy who takes a liking to the old curmudgeon.

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Payment on Demand (1951)
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other title: Depois da Tormenta / Die Ehrgeizige …
David gives his wife, Joyce, an unexpected—and unpleasant—surprise when he suddenly demands a divorce. When she then learns that David has taken up with a younger woman, Joyce decides to make the most of this separation by taking a solo trip to the Caribbean. However, just before diving into a vacation fling, she runs into Emily, an old chum whose own divorce has left her embittered. Joyce then debates giving married life one last chance.

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The Playboy of Paris (1930)
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other title: 快活侍者 / Playboy of Paris
Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her. Philibert plans to marry his daughter to a wealthy Parisian, but upon learning that Albert is to come into a large inheritance, he conspires to place him under a longterm contract, confident that he willingly will pay a forfeit to break it.

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If I Were King (1938)
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other title: 我若为王 / 一夜春梦 …
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.

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Lady of Fortune (1935)
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鲁本·马莫利安 / 洛威·舍曼 actor: 米利亚姆·霍普金斯 / 弗朗西丝·迪伊 …
other title: 浮华世界 / Becky Sharp …
◎片  长 84 Mins ◎导  演 鲁宾·马莫利安 Rouben Mamoulian 洛威·舍曼 Lowell Sherman ....4 (uncredited; started film, died, replaced by Rouben Mamoulian) ◎主  演 米利亚姆·霍普金斯 Miriam Hopkins ....Becky Sharp 弗朗西丝·迪伊 Frances Dee ....Amelia Sedley 塞德里克·哈德威克 Cedric Hardwicke ....Marquis of Steyne 碧莉·伯克 Billie Burke ....Lady Bareacres Alison Skipworth ....Miss Crawley 尼格尔·布鲁斯 Nigel Bruce ....Joseph Sedley Alan Mowbray ....Rawdon Crawley G.P. Huntley ....George Osborne (as G.P. Huntley Jr.) William Stack ....Pitt Crawley George Hassell ....Sir Pitt Crawley William Faversham ....Duke of Wellington Charles Richman ....Gen. Tufto Doris Lloyd ....Duchess of Richmond Colin Tapley ....Capt. William Dobbin Leonard Mudie ....Tarquin May Beatty ....Miss Briggs (Miss Crawley's servant) Charles Coleman ....Bowles Bunny Beatty ....Lady Blanche Finis Barton ....Miss Flowery Olaf Hytten ....The Prince Regent Pauline Garon ....Fifine James 'Hambone' Robinson ....Sedley's black page boy Elspeth Dudgeon ....Miss Pinkerton Tempe Pigott ....The Charwoman Ottola Nesmith ....Lady Jane Crawley Joan Arnold ....Girl (uncredited) Billie Bellport ....Girl (uncredited) Mrs. Leslie Carter ....Woman (uncredited) Margaret Dee ....Young girl (uncredited) Gaston Glass ....British officer (uncredited) Creighton Hale ....British officer (uncredited) Stuart Hall ....(uncredited) Keith Hitchcock ....British officer (uncredited) Viola Moore ....Laura (girl at school) (uncredited) Pat Nixon ....Ballroom dance extra (uncredited) C. Montague Shaw ....British nobleman (uncredited) Reginald Sheffield ....Undetermined Role (uncredited) Pat Somerset ....British officer (uncredited) ◎简  介 Set against the background of the Battle of Waterloo, Becky Sharp is the story of Vanity Fair by Thackeray. Becky and Amelia are girls at school together, but Becky is from a "show biz" family, or in other words, very low class. Becky manages to insinuate herself in Amelia's family and gets to know all their friends. From this possibly auspicious- beginning, she manages to ruin her own life, becoming sick, broke, and lonely, and also ruins the lives of many other "loved ones". In the movie we get to see the class distinctions in England at the time, and get a sense of what it was like for the English military at the time of the Napoleonic wars. In the years just preceding Waterloo, best friends Amelia Sedley (Frances Dee) and Becky Sharp (Miriam Hopkins) graduate from Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Girls. The wealthy Amelia invites the penniless Becky into the bosom of her family home while the manipulative Becky plots her climb up the social ladder. Entirely lacking in scruples and unhampered by conscience or morality, Becky ascends to the very pinnacle of society, crushing anyone who stands in her path. Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, Rouben Mamoulian's adaptation of Thackeray's epic novel Vanity Fair was the first film to be produced in three strip Technicolor.

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Complicated Women (2003)
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other title: 复杂的女性 / Mujeres liberadas
Jane Fonda narrates the story of the years between the ascent of talkies until late in 1934, when the Hays Office cracked down on what it perceived as immorality in Hollywood movies. The emphasis is on how women were portrayed, and focuses on how they were much more liberated and equal (or superior) to men, until 1935 when they once again took subservient roles to their male co-stars.

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Working Girls (1931)
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other title: 워킹 걸
Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister June, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in New York. With June's help, Mae obtains a job as a stenographer for the scientist Joseph von Schraeder, while June gets work as a telegraph operator at Western Union.

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I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
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雅克·特纳 actor: 詹姆斯·埃利森 / 弗朗西丝·迪伊 …
other title: 与僵尸同行 / 與殭屍同行 …
A young Canadian nurse (Betsy) comes to the West Indies to care for Jessica, the wife of a plantation manager (Paul Holland). Jessica seems to be suffering from a kind of mental paralysis as a result of fever. When she falls in love with Paul, Betsy determines to cure Jessica even if she needs to use a voodoo ceremony, to give Paul what she thinks he wants.