This is a later print photograph, not a vintage original. Printed on fiber based paper, estimate printed 1950s or 60s.

Mary Ella Dees (1911 – 2005) was an American stage and screen actress who once served as a primary stand-in double for actress Jean Harlow.  She was named Miss America in Hollywood in 1932, an accomplishment that led director Jack Conway to give her a bit part in Red Headed Woman. That film starred Jean Harlow, who befriended Dees. She advised the newcomer to study dancing, helped her to shop for "the right clothes" and helped to pay for Dees's gowns.

Dees had parts in The Last Gangster (1937), The Women (1939), as well as a number of Three Stooges shorts, which included Hoi Polloi (1935), and numerous Marx Brothers comedies.

Dees appeared in her last film role in 1946, in the Marx Brothers film A Night in Casablanca. She continued to act on stage in repertory theater until 1985. (Source: Wikipedia)

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