Mary Dees (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Mary Ella Dees (June 3, 1911 - August 4, 2004) was an American stage and screen actress who once served as a primary stand-in double for late-1930s actress Jean Harlow. Dees had parts in The Last Gangster (1937), The Women (1939), as well as a number of Three Stooges shorts, which included Hoi Polloi (1935), and numerous Marx Brothers comedies. Born in Syracuse, New York on June 3, 1911, the daughter of a successful lawyer, she was for a time raised in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In 1937, upon the sudden death of starlet actress Jean Harlow, Dees was cast by MGM bosses Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg as a four-minute stand-in for Harlow, who was acting on the film Saratoga with Clark Gable, which was still in production at the time.