In the 1950-60s. Sandra Dee was an ideal for American youth. The blonde and blue-eyed actress and model thanks to her roles helped teens cope with the frustrations of first love. Sandra gained fame thanks to the role of a naive girl embodied on the screen. However, a rapid take-off was followed by an equally rapid fall. What was the creative and life path of the actress, we will tell in the article.
Biography
Sandra Dee, born Alexander Zack at birth, was born in Bayonne, New Jersey, on April 23, 1942. Her parents, John Zack and Maria Tsymbalyak, met in the Russian Orthodox Church for dancing. The mother of the actress was a Carpathian Ruska, came from a family of workers. In childhood, Alexander was brought up in the Orthodox faith. When the girl was four years old, her parents divorced. At the same young age, she first appeared in television commercials under the name Sandra.
Career
In 1957, Sandra Dee's acting debut took place: she played the role in the film "Until They Float." A year later, the actress received the Golden Globe Award as the Most Promising Newcomer. Her film career was developing very rapidly, and very soon, in 1959, the girl became widely known thanks to the well-established role of engineering (the image of a naive girl) in such films as “Gidget”, “Imitation of Life” and “Summer House”.
In the 60s there were many more films with Sandra Dee, in which she played prominent roles. Among them, the films “Come in September” in 1961 and “If a man answers” ​​in 1962 deserve the most attention. The actress also took part in various projects on television.
In the 1950s Sandra Dee even wrote the song Look At Me, I'm Sandra Dee. Subsequently, it was used in the Broadway production of Grease 1972 and the film "Grease" in 1978.
Personal life
When the actress was nineteen years old, she married Bobby Darin, the then-famous American singer. Their marriage has attracted the attention of the public for a decade. Sandra Dee's acting career after marriage became even more successful, and she soon signed a contract with Universal Pictures. At the film studio, a young girl wanted to make a professional actress who is capable of mature and perfect embodiment of female roles on the screen.
Films featuring Sandra Dee were especially successful when her husband Bobby Darin starred in them. Together they appeared in such films as “When September Comes,” “If a Man Answers,” “It's a Weird Feeling.”
Married to Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin , the son of Dodd (Morgan) Mitchell Darin was born. However, the family union of the actress and singer did not last long - in 1967 they divorced.
Book of Dodd Darin
In 1994, the son of Sandra and Bobby published a book about his parents, in which he talked about the problems of anorexia and alcohol dependence in the mother, as well as about her use of various psychotropic drugs. In the book, Dodd noted that as a child, Sandra was the victim of sexual abuse by Eugene Dowan, his stepfather.
The life of Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin was filmed in the movie "By the Sea", released in 2004. The role of Bobby was played by American actor Kevin Spacey, and Sandra was played by actress Kate Bosworth.
Last years
Since the two thousandths, Sandra Dee's health has noticeably shaken. As the actress herself admitted, she spent most of her life fighting the depression, anorexia, and alcoholism. In 2000, a woman was diagnosed with several serious diseases, including renal failure. There was also a suspicion of throat cancer, but it turned out to be unfounded.
Renal disease, accompanied by pneumonia, led to the fact that on February 20, 2005, Sandra Dee suddenly died in a hospital in the town of Towsand Oaks in California at the age of 62. She was buried in Los Angeles at the Forest Lawn private cemetery, near the grave of her mother, who died in 1987.