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- Birth nameEdythia Helen Turnell
- Dee Turnell was born on November 25, 1927 in Downers Grove, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Words and Music (1948), Brigadoon (1954) and Copacabana (1947). She was married to Jerry Thorpe. She died on January 4, 2003 in Walnut Creek, California, USA.
- SpouseJerry Thorpe(March 4, 1951 - 1972) (divorced)
- ChildrenTrisha Thorpe
- Actress and dancer who enlivened many MGM musicals. Married the son of director Richard Thorpe and later became a Florida socialite under the name Dee Turnell Thorpe.
- Was crowned Miss New Shoes in 1953.
- She has appeared in four films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: An American in Paris (1951), Singin' in the Rain (1952), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), & The Band Wagon (1953).
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