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Sandra Dee

Sandra Dee
Sandra Dee
Born: Apr 23, 1942 in Bayonne, New Jersey
Died: Feb 20, 2005 in Thousand Oaks, California
Occupation: Actor
Active: '50s-'70s
Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
Career Highlights: Imitation of Life, A Summer Place, Take Her, She's Mine
First Major Screen Credit: The Reluctant Debutante (1958)
2 Videos for Sandra Dee
Tammy and the Doctor (1963) A Summer Place (1959)
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Biography:

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.