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Sandra Dee
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Sandra Dee made her first film, Until They Sail, in 1957. There was some confusion as to her actual birth year, with evidence pointing to both 1942 and 1944... Intelius indicates 1942 (see Intelius search).
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In a March 1991 interview with People magazine, Dee said she was sexually abused as a child by her stepfather and pushed into stardom by her mother. Dee, who turned to pills and alcohol, said she hit bottom after her mother died in 1988.
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June 2007--Sandra Dee received three Fan Appreciation Awards at King Country Radio's Agape Fest 2007. She was chosen Female Vocalist of the year, and received an award for outstanding achievement. Her song "Old Love Letters" was chosen as Song of the Year
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Gidget spawned sequels and a TV spin-off, though Dee was not involved in those. The blonde teenager was now one of Hollywood’s top stars, and she replaced Debbie Reynolds in the Tammy series, about an unsophisticated young miss from Mississippi.
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For Mother's Day weekend, Big Dee Dee and Dee Dee vacation at an exclusive spa. Not to be outdone, Phyllis and Mona do the same, and end up in the room next door. The weekend quicky goes from weird to worse.
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Nonetheless, the legend of the innocent Sandra Dee as a symbolic reflection of American girls in the 1950s and 1960s lives on and has become virtually immortalized through the songs and the character depicted in the enormously popular contemporary film. "Grease."
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