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Actress Sandra Dee dead at age 63
LOS ANGELES - Actress Sandra Dee, the blond beauty who attracted a large teen audience in the 1960s with films such as ''Gidget'' and ''Tammy and the Doctor'' and had a headlined marriage to pop singer Bobby Darin, died Sunday. She was 63.
Dee died at 5:57 a.m. at the Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, said Cynthia Mead, nursing supervisor.
She died of complications from kidney disease after nearly two weeks in the hospital, said Steve Blauner, a longtime family friend who represents Darin's estate. Blauner said Dee had been on dialysis for about four years.
''She didn't have a bad bone in her body,'' he told The Associated Press in a phone interview. ''When she was a big star in the pictures and a top five at the box office, she treated the grip the exact same way she treated the head of the studio. She meant it. She wasn't phony.''
The family expected to hold private funeral services.
At Universal Studios, Dee was cast mostly in teen movies such as ''The Reluctant Debutante,'' ''The Restless Years,'' ''Tammy Tell Me True'' and ''Take Her She's Mine.'' Occasionally, she was able to do secondary roles in other films, such as ''Imitation of Life,'' ''A Portrait In Black'' and ''Romanoff and Juliet.''
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Sandra Dee
American actress and model (1942–2005)
Sandra Dee (born Alexandra Cymboliak Zuck;[1] April 23, 1942 – February 20, 2005) was an American actress. Dee began her career as a child model, working first in commercials and then film in her teenage years. Best known for her portrayal of ingénues, Dee earned a Golden Globe Award as one of the year's most promising newcomers for her performance in Robert Wise's Until They Sail (1957). She became a teenage star for her performances in Imitation of Life, Gidget and A Summer Place (all released in 1959), which made her a household name.
By the late 1960s, her career had started to decline and a highly publicized marriage to Bobby Darin ended in divorce. The year of her divorce, Dee's contract with Universal Pictures was dropped. She attempted a comeback with the 1970 independent horror film The Dunwich Horror, but rarely acted after this time, appearing only occasionally in television productions throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. The rest of the decade was marked by alcoholism, mental illness, and reclusiveness, particularly after her mother died in 1987. Dee sought medical and psychological help in the early 1990s and died in 2005 of complications from kidney disease.
Life and career
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Sandra Dee
(1942-2005)
Synopsis
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