Sandra Dee

 Sandra Dee, born Alexandra Zuck (April 23, 1942 – February 20, 2005)

There has been some dispute as to Dee's actual birth year, with evidence pointing to both 1942 and 1944. Legal records, including her California divorce record from Bobby Darin, as well as the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) and her own gravestone all give her year of birth as 1942. In an 1967 interview with the Oxnard Press-Courier, she acknowledged being 18 in 1960 when she first met Bobby Darin, and the couple wed 3 months later. However, according to her son's book, Dee was born in 1944, but, having begun modelling and acting at a very young age, she and her mother falsely inflated her age by two years so she could find more work. According to this version, this explains why 1942 was listed as her birth year in official studio press releases. Dee began her career as a model and progressed to film. Best known for her portrayal of ingenues, Dee won a Golden Globe Award in 1959 as one of the year's most promising newcomers, and over several years her films were popular. By the late 1960s her career had started to decline, and a highly publicized marriage to Bobby Darin (m. 1960–1967) ended in divorce. She became known for her wholesome ingenue roles in such films as The Reluctant Debutante (as Rex Harrison's daughter), Gidget, Imitation of Life, and A Summer Place. She later played "Tammy" in two Universal sequels to Tammy and the Bachelor, in the role created by Debbie Reynolds. After 1970, Dee appeared in relatively few roles, mostly in television. Dee's adult years were marked by poor health.

She battled anorexia nervosa, depression and alcoholism for many years. Complications from kidney disease led to her death on February 20, 2005 at the Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, California at the age of 62. Sandra Dee is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Hollywood Hills.