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To: BigSkyFreeper
From Yahoo! Movies:

American actress Sandra Dee began her career as a model at age 12, and later moved on to TV commercials. Her film break came when producer Ross Hunter balked at Natalie Wood's lofty salary demands and decided to use a newcomer to play Lana Turner's daughter in Imitation of Life (1959). The result for Dee was a long-term contract at Universal, although one of her biggest moneymakers was the 1959 Warner Bros. film A Summer Place. In 1961, Dee married singer/actor Bobby Darin, with whom she appeared in three lightweight but money-making comedies. After her divorce from Darin in 1967, Dee could no longer convey her patented perky-teen charm, and her career began a downhill slide, although the decline was occasionally slowed a bit by such curious highlights as the pseudo-hip sex comedy Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding (1967) and the nail-biting psychological scare film The Dunwich Horror (1970). Out of movies completely by 1971, Dee retreated to private life, occasionally popping up on TV and granting interviews with nostalgia-happy young film buffs. Much of the actress' latter-day fame rested upon a single song in the Broadway smash Grease: the satiric, 1950s-style, rock ballad titled "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

The Internet Movie Database:

  1. Lost (1983) .... Penny

  2. Fantasy Island (1977) (TV) .... Francesca Hamilton
  3. Houston, We've Got a Problem (1974) (TV) .... Angie Cordell
  4. The Daughters of Joshua Cabe (1972) (TV) .... Ada
  5. The Manhunter (1972) (TV) .... Mara Bocock
  6. Ad est di Marsa Matruh (1971)
  7. The Dunwich Horror (1970) .... Nancy Wagner

  8. Rosie! (1967) .... Daphne
  9. Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding (1967) .... Heather Halloran
  10. A Man Could Get Killed (1966) .... Amy Franklin
    ... aka Welcome, Mr. Beddoes (UK)
  11. That Funny Feeling (1965) .... Joan Howell
  12. I'd Rather Be Rich (1964) .... Cynthia Dulaine
  13. Take Her, She's Mine (1963) .... Mollie Michaelson
  14. Tammy and the Doctor (1963) .... Tammy Tyree
  15. If a Man Answers (1962) .... Chantal Stacy
  16. Come September (1961) .... Sandy Stevens
  17. Tammy Tell Me True (1961) .... Tammy Tyree
  18. Romanoff and Juliet (1961) .... Juliet Moulsworth
    ... aka Dig That Juliet
  19. Portrait in Black (1960) .... Cathy Cabot

  20. A Summer Place (1959) .... Molly Jorgenson
  21. The Wild and the Innocent (1959) .... Rosalie Stocker
  22. Imitation of Life (1959) .... Susie, age 16
  23. Gidget (1959) .... Gidget (Frances Lawrence)
  24. A Stranger in My Arms (1959) .... Pat Beasley
    ... aka And Ride a Tiger (USA)
  25. The Restless Years (1958) .... Melinda Grant
    ... aka The Wonderful Years (UK)
  26. The Reluctant Debutante (1958) .... Jane Broadbent
  27. Snezhnaya koroleva (1957) (voice) .... Gerda in English ... aka Снежная королева (Soviet Union: Russian title) ... aka The Snow Queen (USA)
  28. Until They Sail (1957) .... Evelyn Leslie


42 posted on 02/20/2005 1:25:38 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Smoke free since January 16, 2005)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

"I'd Rather Be Rich" is one of my favorites.


109 posted on 02/20/2005 9:36:56 PM PST by missthethunder
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