Editing Frances Dee (section)

==Early life==
The younger daughter of Francis "Frank" Marion Dee and his wife, the former Henriette Putnam, Frances Marion Dee was born in Los Angeles, California, where her father worked as a civil service examiner.<ref>Her birth name is given as Frances Marion Dee in the ''California Birth Index, 1905-1995'', accessed via ancestry.com on January 13, 2011</ref><ref>Frank Dee's occupation is given in the 1910 U.S. Federal Census for Los Angeles, California, in which he is listed with his wife, Henriette, and daughters Margaret and Frances. In the 1920 U.S. Federal Census for Chicago, Illinois, Frank Dee is listed as an employment manager at a packing company. In the 1930 U.S. Federal Census for Indianapolis, Indiana, he was living as a lodger in a boarding house and working as a secretary at a public utility. All census records accessed on ancestry.com on January 13, 2011.</ref>

When Dee was seven years old, her family moved to Chicago, Illinois.<ref name="ot2">{{cite news|last1=Soanes|first1=Wood|date=June 17, 1934|title=Frances Dee and Joel McCrea See Future Felicity and Freedom Upon Ranch When Studios Begin to Pall|newspaper=Oakland Tribune |page=39|agency=Oakland Tribune|location=California, Oakland|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4673193/oakland_tribune/|access-date=March 19, 2016|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} {{Open access}}</ref><ref name=ot/> She attended Shakespeare Grammar School and [[Hyde Park Career Academy|Hyde Park High School]], where she went by the nickname of Frankie Dee.{{Citation needed |date=December 2023}} 

After graduating from Hyde Park High in 1927, of which she was vice president of her senior class, as well as voted Belle of the Year, she spent two years at the University of Chicago, where she participated in dramatic activities,<ref name=ot/> then returned to California.