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Sandra Dee, the blonde teen queen who starred in Gidget and was once married to singer Bobby Darin, died Sunday at age 62. She passed away at 5:57 a.m. at the Los Robles Hospital & Medical...
News. ’50s teen queen Sandra Dee dies. Sandra Dee, who at the height of her fame was arguably the biggest female teen idol of her time, has died, leaving a legacy of film roles that...
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1942–1951: Early life
Dee was born Alexandra Zuck on April 23, 1942, in Bayonne, New Jersey, the only child of John Zuck and Mary (née Cimboliak) Zuck, who met as teenagers at a Russian Orthodox Church dance. They married shortly afterward, but divorced before Dee was five years old. She was of Carpatho-Rusyn ancestry and raised in the Orthodox faith; her son, Dodd Darin, wrote in his biographical book about his parents titled Dream Lovers that Dee's mother Mary and her aunt Olga [later Olga Duda] "were first gene...
1952–1956: Modeling career
Producer Ross Hunter claimed to have discovered Dee on Park Avenue in New York City with her mother when she was 12 years old.In a 1959 interview, Dee recalled that she "grew up fast," surrounded mostly by older people, and was "never held back in anything [she] wanted to do." During her modeling career, Dee attempted to lose weight to "be as skinny as the high-fashion models," although an improper diet "ruined [her] skin, hair, nails—everything." Having lost weight, her body was unable to di...
1957–1958: Early films and Universal contract
Ending her modeling career, Dee moved from New York to Hollywood in 1957. She graduated from University High School in Los Angeles in June 1958 at age 16. Her onscreen debut was in the 1957 MGM film Until They Sail, directed by Robert Wise. To promote the film, Dee appeared in a December issue of Modern Screen in a column by Louella Parsons, who praised Dee and compared her appearance and talent to those of Shirley Temple. Dee's performance made her one of that year's winners of the Golden Gl...
After requiring kidney dialysis for the last four years of her life, Dee died of complications from kidney disease on February 20, 2005, at the Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, California, at the age of 62. She was interred in a crypt at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in the Hollywood Hills.
For a number of years, exhibitors voted Dee one of the most popular box-office stars in the United States: 1. 1959—16th 2. 1960—7th 3. 1961—6th 4. 1962—9th 5. 1963—8th
Dee is referenced in the song "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee" from the 1971 musical Grease and its 1978 film adaptation.
Craig, Rob (2019). American International Pictures: A Comprehensive Filmography. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-1-476-66631-0.Darin, Dodd (1994). Dream Lovers: The Magnificent Shattered Lives of Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee. Warner Books. ISBN 978-0-44651-768-3.Kashner, Sam; MacNair, Jennifer (2002). The Bad & the Beautiful: Hollywood in the Fifties. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-39332-436-5.Lisanti, Thomas (2017). Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies: The First Wave, 1959-1969. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-1-476-60142-7.Sandra Dee at IMDbSandra Dee at the TCM Movie DatabaseSandra Dee at AllMovie20 de fev. de 2005 · Sandra Dee, the perennially perky, blond-haired and blue-eyed actress who helped American teenagers of the late 1950's and early 1960's cope with the frustrations of adolescent romance and the...
Actress: Gidget. Sandra Dee was born Alexandria Zuck on April 23, 1942 in Bayonne, New Jersey, to Mary (Cymboliak) and John Zuck. She was of Carpatho-Rusyn descent. Her mother envisioned a show business career for her daughter and would often lie about her age in order to get Sandy where she wanted to go. For example, her mother enrolled her in ...
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21 de fev. de 2005 · The Washington Post. 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...
Overview. Born. April 23, 1942 · Bayonne, New Jersey, USA. Died. February 20, 2005 · Thousand Oaks, California, USA (kidney disease) Birth name. Alexandra Cymboliak Zuck. Nicknames. Sandy. The Queen of Teens. Sandush. Gidget. Height. 5′ 4″ (1.63 m) Mini Bio.
