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Sandra Dee (April 23, 1942 – February 20, 2005) was an American actress. 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 rarely acted after this time, and her final years were marred by illness. She died of complications from kidney disease in 2005 at the age of 62. ==Birth and background== Dee was born Alexandra Zuck in Bayonne, New Jersey in 1942, the only child of Mary (née Cymboliak) and John Zuck, who met as teenagers at a Russian Orthodox church dance, and married shortly afterward, but divorced before Sandra was 5 years old.〔(Biography of Sandra Dee ), biography.com; accessed August 14, 2014.〕 She was of Polish and Carpatho-Rusyn ancestry,〔 and was raised in the Russian Orthodox faith. Her son, Dodd Darin, wrote in his biographical book about his parents, ''Dream Lovers'', that Dee's mother, Mary, and her sister Olga "were first generation daughters of a working class Russian Orthodox couple."〔Darin, Dodd (1994). ''Dream Lovers: The Magnificent Shattered Lives of Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee'', Warner Books, pp. 27-30.〕 Dee recalled, "we belonged to a Russian Orthodox Church, and there was dancing at the social events."〔 Alexandra would soon take the name Sandra Dee. She became a professional model by the age of 4 and subsequently progressed to television commercials. 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〔; accessed July 4, 2015.〕 all give her year of birth as 1942. In a 1967 interview with the ''Oxnard Press-Courier'', she acknowledged being 18 in 1960 when she first met Bobby Darin, and the couple wed three months later.〔(''Oxnard Press-Courier'' interview ), interactive.ancestry.com; accessed May 9, 2014.〕 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. It does not explain why her gravestone, which had to have been commissioned by her son, her only child and sole immediate survivor, gives 1942 as her year of birth, however.〔〔〔 After studying at the Hollywood Professional School, she graduated from University High School in Los Angeles in June 1958. In a 1959 interview, Dee recalled that she "grew up fast", surrounded mostly by older people, and was "never held back in anything () wanted to do".〔"Sandra Dee, Teen-age Beauty" by Lydia Lane, ''The Palm Beach Post''. p. 42.〕 During her modeling career, Dee attempted to lose weight to "be as skinny as the high-fashion models", though an improper diet "ruined () skin, hair, nails—everything". Having slimmed down, her body was unable to digest any food she ate, and it took the help of a doctor to regain her health. According to the actress, she "could have killed ()" and "had to learn to eat all over again".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sandra Dee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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