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SANDRA DEE
Sandra Dee (April 23, 1942 – February 20, 2005) was an American film actress.
Dee began her career as a model and progressed to film. Best known for her portrayal of ingenues, Dee won a Golden Globe Award in 1959 as one of the year's most promising newcomers, and over several years her films were popular. By the late 1960s her career had started to decline, and a highly publicized marriage to Bobby Darin ended in divorce.
She rarely acted after this time, and her final years were marred by illness; she died as a result of kidney failure, combined with pneumonia.
Sandra Dee made her first film, Until They Sail, in 1957, and the following year, she won a Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year - Actress, along with Carolyn Jones and Diane Varsi. Her film career flourished, and she became known for her wholesome ingenue roles in such films as Imitation of Life, Gidget and A Summer Place, all in 1959. She later played "Tammy" in two Universal sequels to Tammy and the Bachelor in the role created by Debbie Reynolds.
During the 1970s she took very few acting roles, but made occasional television appearances. Her 1950s persona was the inspiration for the song "Look At Me, I'm Sandra Dee", featured in the 1972 Broadway musical Grease, and the 1978 film version.
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A SUMMER PLACE
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Actress, model. Born Alexandra Zuck, on April 23, 1942 (some sources say 1944), in Bayonne New Jersey. She was the only child of John and Mary Zuck, who divorced when Sandra was a toddler. She was raised solely by her mother until she re-married in 1950. Eugene Douvan, a New York real-estate entrepreneur, became Sandra’s stepfather. The young girl endured years of sexual abuse from her stepfather while she also suffered from anorexia. Both the abuse and her eating disorder would continue to haunt Sandra for the rest of her life.
Sandra took her stepfather’s name and the Douvan’s relocated from Long Island to Manhattan in 1952. She was enrolled in The Professional Children’s School, a school whose flexible curriculum was conducive to child performers. Sandra’s first modeling job was for Girl Scouts Magazine, which enabled her to eventually sign with a modeling agency. At the age of 12, the actress was discovered by producer Ross Hunter. Hunter launched her movie career and persuaded Universal Studios to sign the young actress to a seven-year contract. It was during this time that Sandra Douvan adopted the stage name Sandra Dee.
After the death of her stepfather, Dee and her mother moved to California to further pursue Dee’s acting career. Dee landed the role as the original Gidget (1959) and replaced Debbie Reynolds in Tammy Tell Me True (1961). She also starred in a series of dramas: Imitation of Life (1959), A Summer Place (1959), and Portrait in Black (1960).
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Sporty, cheerful and squeaky-clean, Sandra Dee was the star of Gidget, the 1959 film that inspired a flurry of sun-and-fun surfing movies in the early 1960s. Dee began modelling at age 12 and by 1957 had made it into the movies in Hollywood. 1959 was her breakthrough year, with starring roles in the melodrama A Summer Place and the beach blanket romance Gidget, with Dee cast as a sweet-natured teen blonde adopted by a band of surfers. Gidget made Dee such a star that film critic Leonard Maltin later compared her popularity at the time to that of Britney Spears decades later. After Gidget, Dee moved on to perky roles in films like Tammy, Tell Me True (1961) and That Funny Feeling (1965). She married pop singer Bobby Darin in 1960, when Darin was 24 and Dee was 18. They had one son, Dodd, and were divorced in 1967. Her career went south at about the same time, and she was rarely a starring player thereafter. She appeared in a few TV movies throughout the 1970s (including the 1977 pilot for the series Fantasy Island, with Ricardo Montalban) and made her last feature appearance in the 1983 film Lost.
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GIDGET
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PIX -- THE FOUR PREPS/DREAMY EYES
Dunwich Horror
1970 Sandra Dee
Dr. Henry Armitage (ED BEGLEY) is a guest lecturer at Miskatonic University on
subjects dealing with the occult, particularly the rituals described in an
ancient book, The Necronomicon, which is kept in the Rare Book Room of the
campus library.
Two coeds, Nancy Walker (SANDRA DEE) and her friend, Elizabeth Hamilton (DONNA
BACCALA) are in the process of locking the book back in its case when they are
interrupted by a young man, Wilbur Whateley (DEAN STOCKWELL). He talks the girls
into letting him read the book at a library table, although use of the book by
the public is forbidden.
Dr. Armitage discovers the young man memorizing passages from the ritual. Before
taking the book from him, he learns that Wilbur is from Dunwich, a nearby
village which has a legendary history of weird, evil happenings, and is a
great-grandson of Oliver Whateley, who was hanged by the villagers as a demon.
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