Sandra Dee

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Sandra Dee (born April 23, 1942 in Bayonne , New Jersey , † February 20, 2005 in Thousand Oaks , California ; actually Alexandra Cymboliak Zuck ) was an American actress .

Life

Sandra was already “trimmed” and marketed as a child by her ambitious mother for the model and film business. The parents soon separated, the mother remarried, from then on the daughter was called Sandra Douvan, which was later shortened to Dee at Universal. At the age of twelve she was hired as a child model and also starred in various television commercials. In 1957, she made her first cinema appearance in Land Without Men , for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Young Actress . Her breakthrough as an actress came in 1959 with the Douglas Sirk film As long as there are people alongside Lana Turner ; the commercial success came in the same year with The Summer Island on the side of Troy Donahue and with April discovered the men . Sandra soon became the most popular teen star ("All-American-Darling") of her time and played alongside Peter Ustinov , among others .

Dees grave site in Forest Lawn Memorial Park

After her marriage to the musician, singer and actor Bobby Darin in 1960, whom she met as a partner in the film Happy-End in September , the blonde actress, who was often referred to as "youngster Doris Day ", played with her husband in several shallow, but commercially successful comedies ( ... breakfast is at home , the bedroom is next door ); a Hollywood dream couple seemed born in the eyes of the producers. But this liaison was short-lived. After divorcing Bobby Darin in 1967, Sandra Dee's success waned. At just 26, her career was coming to an end. The former teenage idol was anorexic , became increasingly addicted to alcohol and suffered from depression . In the late 1960s, Dee made only a few second-rate films ( Doctor - you're kidding! ) Before retiring entirely from the film business in 1971 and appearing sporadically on talk shows or smaller television films. In 1994 she appeared again in an episode of Frasier .

In 2000 she developed cancer of the larynx and suffered from kidney failure . On February 20, 2005 Sandra Dee died after a pneumonia with complications at a hospital in Los Angeles an acute renal failure . She left behind a son from her marriage to Bobby Darin: Dodd Mitchell Cassotto (Dodd Darin), born December 16, 1961. She achieved lasting fame through the satirizing song Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee! from the musical Grease 1971.

The 2004 film Beyond the Sea - Music Was His Life tells the story of Bobby Darin (played by Kevin Spacey ) and Sandra Dee (played by Kate Bosworth ).

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Dodd Darin, Maxine Paetro: Dream Lovers: The Magnificent Shattered Lives of Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee. Warner Books, 1994, ISBN 0-446-51768-2 .

Web links

Commons : Sandra Dee  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry at filmreference.com
personal data
SURNAME Dee, Sandra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zuck, Alexandra Cymboliak (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayonne , New Jersey , United States
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 2005
Place of death Thousand Oaks , California, United States