19331990 I didn't feel like I was an actor anymore. His father, Thomas P. McCrea, was a secretary for the Los Angeles gas and electric company. One of the great stars of American Westerns, and a very popular leading man in non-Westerns as well. Had three sons by Joel McCrea: Jody McCrea (born 1934), David McCrea (born 1935) and Peter McCrea (born 1955). He was the son of actors Joel McCrea and Frances Dee. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro. He soon realized after losing the lead in The Real Glory (1939) to Gary Cooper that as long as Samuel Goldwyn had both he and Cooper under contract, he would always come out second in the studio's choice roles. and Eugene Oregon; also worked in the last Brittany Murphy movie The Kb of pyridine, C5H5N, is 1.5 x 10-9. When Joel had passed away and his wife of 57 years Frances Dee was about to pass away in 2004 she told her third son, Peter, that he had a sister but the only part of the name she could remember was Leighand that she had no idea where to look for his sister. JUMP TO: Joel McCreas biography, facts, family, personal life, zodiac, videos and related celebs. He studied acting at Pomona College and got some stage experience at the Pasadena Community Playhouse, where other future stars such as Randolph Scott, Robert Young, and Victor Mature would also get their first experience. McCrea who was an outdoorsman who had once listed his occupation as "rancher" and his hobby as "acting" had begun buying property as early as 1933, when he purchased his first 1,000 acres (400ha) in a then unincorporated area of eastern Ventura County, California, which later became Thousand Oaks, California. She is credited as Mona Leigh and/or Mona Leigh McCrea. for his contribution to radio. Leigh McCrea. Your email address will not be published. From what I read, Joel was a devoted husband for 57 years. I have no regrets, except perhaps one: I should have tried harder to be By the late Forties, his concentration focused on Westerns, and he made few non-Westerns thereafter. Does this mean addressing to a crowd? In 2005 when Velma's estranged husband passed away the photos and name information for Mona were found among his belongings. 5 Answers There is no word like addressal. He appeared in over one hundred films,[1] starring in over eighty, among them Alfred Hitchcock's espionage thriller Foreign Correspondent (1940), Preston Sturges' comedy classics Sullivan's Travels (1941), and The Palm Beach Story (1942), the romance film Bird of Paradise (1932), the adventure classic The Most Dangerous Game (1932), Gregory La Cava's bawdy comedy Bed of Roses (1933), George Stevens' six-time Academy Award nominated romantic comedy The More the Merrier (1943), William Wyler's These Three, Come and Get It (both 1936) and Dead End (1937), Howard Hawks' Barbary Coast (1935), and a number of western films, including Wichita (1955) as Wyatt Earp and Sam Peckinpah's Ride the High Country (1962), opposite Randolph Scott.