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Dee, Sandra
(b. 23 April 1944 in Bayonne, New Jersey; d. 20 February 2005 in Thousand Oaks, California), film star who was the icon of the beautiful, playful teenage girl on the brink of sexuality.
Born Alexandra Cymboliak Zuck, Dee was the only child of Mary Cymboliak and John Zuck, who divorced when she was five. Her mother often lied about her age, putting her in second grade when she was four. When Sandra was eight, her mother remarried the much older New York real-estate entrepreneur Eugene Douvan, who sexually molested the child frequently from that time until he died when she was eleven. Dee later disclosed that she believed that her mother either did not know or repressed knowledge about the sexual abuse. Her mother, not previously employed, became highly focused on Sandra’s career, starting her modeling at age eight for the Girl Scouts magazine, catalogs, television commercials, and other magazines from Teen Life to Good Housekeeping. Sandra was enrolled in the Professional Children’s School, with a very flexible curriculum conducive to child performers. By a
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Sandra Dee Biography
Born Alexandra Cymboliak Zuck, April 23, 1942, in Bayonne, NJ; died of kidney disease, February 20, 2005, in Thousand Oaks, CA. Actress. Sandra Dee was one of Hollywood's hottest box-office draws in the early 1960s. Best remembered for her role as the irrepressible Gidget in the hit teen-surfer movie of the same name, Dee and her career failed to capture the momentum of her early years as an exuberant, attractive starlet, and she retreated into a reclusive life plagued by substance abuse. Despite her decline, she would be forever remembered as an icon for an era. "The bright, chirpy Ms. Dee defined a new kind of natural, sun-soaked innocence that America, and much of the rest of the world, quickly embraced as the radiantly healthy, outdoorsy essence of Southern California living," noted Dave Kehr in her New York Times obituary.
Dee was born Alexandra Cymboliak Zuck on April 23, 1942, the year given by most sources, though her actual birth date, according to her son, may have been 1941. She grew up in Bayonne, New Jersey, and her f
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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,
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