---
name: "Frances Dade"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/frances-dade"
fi1m_id: "frances-dade"
imdb_id: "nm0196596"
tmdb_id: 3947
wikidata_id: "Q5478594"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "14 February 1907"
died: "21 January 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T00:49:16.967383+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Frances Dade

## Identity

Frances Dade

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/frances-dade
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** frances-dade
- **IMDb ID:** nm0196596
- **TMDB ID:** 3947
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5478594
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Dade, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5478594, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0196596/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3947

Actor. Born 14 February 1907 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Died 21 January 1968.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 14 February 1907, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Died:** 21 January 1968
- **Also known as:**  Lorelei Lee, Frances Pemberton Dade
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Dade, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5478594, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0196596/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3947

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*Dracula*](https://film.one/film/dracula.md) (75)

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## Biography

Frances Dade, also credited early in her career as Lorelei Lee, was an American actress. She was born Frances Pemberton Dade on 14 February 1907 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died there on 21 January 1968.

Dade moved to Hollywood in the late 1920s. She appeared in an uncredited role in *The Constant Nymph* (1928) and in several films in 1930, including *Raffles* and *Grumpy*. In 1931 she played Lucy Weston in *Dracula*, her best-known role, and was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars. Her final film was *Big Town* (1932). She also appeared on Broadway in *Collision* that year. Dade retired from acting after her marriage to Brock Van Avery in 1932 and later worked as a nurse.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Dracula* (1931), Fi1m 75, as Lucy — [page](https://film.one/film/dracula.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Big Town* (1932), as Patricia Holman
- *Scandal for Sale* (1932), Actor
- *Range Law* (1931), as Ruth Warren
- *Daughter of the Dragon* (1931), as Joan Marshall
- *Pleasure* (1931), as Joan Channing
- *Seed* (1931), as Nancy
- *The She-Wolf* (1931), Actor
- *Dracula* (1931), as Lucy — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/dracula.md)
- *The Devil to Pay!* (1930), as Bidder for Bed (uncredited)
- *Grumpy* (1930), as Virginia Bullivant
- *Raffles* (1930), as Ethel Crowley
- *He Knew Women* (1930), as Monica Grey

## Gallery

- ![Frances Dade](https://film.one/media/person/3852664/gallery-62d67a29549e.png) Frances Dade — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Frances_Dade_in_Screenland.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Frances Dade](https://film.one/media/person/3852664/gallery-97118d716923.jpg) Frances Dade — Image via TMDB

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