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Sandra Dee (born April 23, 1942; died February 20,
2005) was an United States|American film
actor|actress.


Born Alexandra Zuck  of Rusyns|Rusyn ancestry in
Bayonne, New Jersey, Dee was a professional model
(person)|model by the age of four.  She progressed
to television commercials and then made her first
film, Until They Sail, in 1957.

In 1958 she won a Golden Globe Award for "Most
Promising Newcomer" (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 1959).  

Her marriage in 1960 to singer and actor Bobby
Darin kept her in the public eye for much of the
decade. She was contracted to Universal Studios,
who tried to develop Dee as a mature actress, and
the films she made as an adult--including a few
with Darin--were moderately successful. They had
one son together, who took the name Dodd Mitchell
Darin, but in 1967 she and Darin were divorced.

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
Broadway musical Grease. The song later reappeared
in the 1978 film version of the play.

Dee's adult years were marked by ill health.  She
admitted that for most of her life she battled
anorexia nervosa, clinical depression|depression
and alcoholism. In 2000, she reported that she had
been diagnosed with throat cancer and kidney
failure.  Complications from the latter condition,
combined with a bout of pneumonia, led to her
death at the age of 62 in Thousand Oaks,
California.

Her life with Bobby Darin has been told in the
2004 film Beyond the Sea (movie)|Beyond the Sea,
in which she was played by Kate Bosworth.

==Filmography==
*The Snow Queen (1957) (voice in 1958
English-dubbed version)
*Until They Sail (1957)
*The Reluctant Debutante (1958)
*The Restless Years (1958)
*A Stranger in My Arms (1959)
*Gidget (1959)
*Imitation of Life (1959)
*The Wild and the Innocent (1959)
*A Summer Place (1959)
*Portrait in Black (1960)
*Romanoff and Juliet (1961)
*Tammy Tell Me True (1961)
*Come September (1961)
*If a Man Answers (1962)
*Tammy and the Doctor (1963)
*Take Her, She's Mine (1963)
*I'd Rather Be Rich (1964)
*That Funny Feeling (1965)
*A Man Could Get Killed (1966)
*Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding (1967)
*Rosie! (1968)
*The Dunwich Horror (1970)
*To East of Marsa Matruh (1971)
*Lost (1983)

==External links==

*imdb name|id=0000364|name=Sandra Dee