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American actress and model (–)

Sandra Dee (born Alexandra Cymboliak Zuck;^[1] April 23, &#;– February 20, ) 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 (). She became a teenage star for her performances in Imitation of Life, Gidget and A Summer Place (all released in ), which made her a household name.

By the late s, 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 independent horror film The Dunwich Horror, but rarely acted after this time, appearing only occasionally in television productions throughout the s and early s. The rest Dodd darin!