Sandra Dee tribute HQ

Here is a tribute to one of my favorite actresses Sandra Dee. Some of my favorite movies she starred in are "Summer Place", "Tammy & the Doctor" , "Tammy Tell Me True" & "Gidget". Sandra was America's sweetheart in the 50's & 60's. Looking at her life as a fan it looked like she had a pretty idyllic life, but sadly she suffered with alcoholism, anorexia & depression & was abused when she was a child which I learned about when she talked about it on the Sally Jessy Raphael show. I think it was very brave of her to talk so candidly about her problems in her personal life. It is sad that she never seemed to find the happiness she so desperately wanted. I just am so thankful she lives on in her films & music & in that way she will always live on.
RIP Sandra Dee. We miss you!
Song: Tammy By: Connie Francis
I wanted to use Sandra Dee's version of this song, but I couldn't find it on amazon & I couldn't download the song from KZbin. I do prefer her version, but Connie Francis does a very superb job with her version too. It's a very beautiful song.
Here is a mini bio I found about her on IMDb.com
Sandra Dee was born Alexandria Zuck on April 23, 1942 in Bayonne, New Jersey, to Mary (Cymboliak) and John Zuck. She was of Carpatho-Rusyn descent. Her mother envisioned a show business career for her daughter and would often lie about her age in order to get Sandy where she wanted to go. For example, her mother enrolled her in school early so she could have a head start. Sandy was only four years old when she entered the second grade. Sandra was an extremely pretty young lady, which enabled her to get into modeling. In fact, she was already very successful at her craft by the time she was 12 years old. This in turn led to television commercials for local companies, an added benefit for the young model.
Through her mother's prodding and the talent scouts, Sandra was signed to do a movie when she was 14 called Until They Sail (1957), released in 1957. While the film didn't exactly top the charts, it would lay the foundation for Sandra's career. The new young actress was then signed to two more films for 1958, The Reluctant Debutante (1958) and The Restless Years (1958), the latter with a young actor, John Saxon. In 1959, Sandra appeared in five productions with Gidget (1959) and A Summer Place (1959) being the two most popular. Sandra was 17 years old and becoming the heartthrob of teenage boys all across America. In 1960, Sandra appeared in only one film, Portrait in Black (1960), but is remembered by her for something else. She married teen idol Bobby Darin in December of that year. It may have sunk a few teen boys' hearts, but most still were enamored of her. Her work, once again, took off. The 1961 releases were Come September (1961), Romanoff and Juliet (1961), and as Tammy Tyree in Tammy Tell Me True (1961).
Sandra had replaced the ever-popular Debbie Reynolds in the "Tammy" series, but the film and its 1963 sequel, Tammy and the Doctor (1963), didn't do all that well at the box-office. The films were now slowing for Sandra. The last few that she made were I'd Rather Be Rich (1964), That Funny Feeling (1965), A Man Could Get Killed (1966), Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding! (1967), and Rosie! (1967). By 1967, her marriage to Darin ended and so did her film career. There was little call for a teenage movie star to play daughters and such, when everyone knew that she was a divorcée. Plus, the face of movies had changed and sugary stories were not the ones that people wanted to see. Sandra did nail down the part of "Nancy Wagner" in 1970's The Dunwich Horror (1970).
In the 1970s, Dee made a few appearances in made-for-television movies, but it was the film Grease (1978) that made her famous to a new generation. While she was not in the film, one of the popular songs was "Look At Me, I'm Sandra Dee".
Sandra's last silver screen role was in Lost (1983). She died of kidney complications on February 20, 2005.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tony Fontana and Denny Jackson
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[@mikeramos1570]

How I Remember 😢

[@dinadealeman4387]

ESTA MELODÍA ME RECUERDA MI NIÑEZ, CUANDO VI ESAS PELÍCULAS DE ELLA.

[@boyan64]

what a beauty

[@legendaryTMNICO]

Gidget is her best role. She was looking her best in the role of gidget.

[@porfiriodias1796]

So beauty...😢

[@wolfeatworld]

You're not alone, BadZ. Was my first movie heart-throb‼️ (do they still say "heart-throb?") I can honestly say, I have loved her from afar for nearly all of my life. Nice post Z. ;-) Sam

[@georgek122]

pretty video :)

[@ameliafornari6012]

ATTORI DA NON DIMENTICARE..

[@howardkerr8174]

After seeing Sandra Dee in Tammy, or was it Gidget? ....I couldn't imagine what they were thinking with Debbie Reynolds. I had a neighborhood girl that looked like a young Sandra Dee, in her family she was the only blonde.

[@1osigram]

güzel hatun muş :)

[@svc6253]

Who is Sandra Dee that knows Boby Darrin. Who got on the phone saying you can't see to drive and hung up