Editing Frances Dee (section)

==Personal life==
Dee met actor [[Joel McCrea]] on the set of the 1933 film ''The Silver Cord''.<ref name="ot">{{cite news|last1=Bowers|first1=Emilie|title=Charming Frances Dee|newspaper=Oakland Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4672988/oakland_tribune/|agency=Oakland Tribune|date=March 3, 1935|location=California, Oakland|page=59|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = March 19, 2016}} {{Open access}}</ref> The couple married on October 20, 1933, after a whirlwind courtship, and remained married until McCrea's death in 1990. During their lifetime together, the McCreas lived, raised their children, and rode their horses on [[Joel McCrea Ranch|their ranch]] in what was then an unincorporated area of eastern Ventura County, California.<ref name="VCS 2017-02-07">{{cite news|url=http://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/communities/conejo-valley/2018/02/07/mccrea-familys-hollywood-legacy-lives-conejo-ranch/997848001/|title=McCrea family's Hollywood legacy lives on at Conejo ranch|newspaper=[[Ventura County Star]]|first=Robyn |last=Flans|date= February 7, 2018|access-date=8 February 2018}}</ref> They ultimately donated several hundred acres of their personal property to the newly formed Conejo Valley [[YMCA]] for the city of Thousand Oaks, California. Dee, like McCrea, was a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QfHXAAAAQBAJ&q=Kathryn+Grayson+Republican&pg=PA173|title=When Hollywood Was Right: How Movie Stars, Studio Moguls, and Big Business Remade American Politics|first=Donald T.|last=Critchlow|date=October 21, 2013|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521199186|via=Google Books}}</ref> Joel McCrea died on their 57th wedding anniversary. 

Dee was honored at the 1998 Memphis Film Festival in Tennessee.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.westernclippings.com/festivalfotos/filmfestivalfotos_20.shtml|title=Western Film Festival Photos--Gallery 9|website=www.westernclippings.com}}</ref> In 2004, Frances Dee McCrea died in Norwalk, Connecticut due to complications from a stroke at the age of 94.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/mar/10/guardianobituaries.film1|title=Obituary: Frances Dee|first=Ronald|last=Bergan|newspaper=The Guardian |date=March 10, 2004|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref>