Son of Hollywood Legends to Speak at Easton Library

Peter McCrea, son of Joel McCrea and Frances Dee will be speaking at the Community Room of the Easton Public Library on Tuesday evening, January 7 at 7pm.

Balancing two highly successful movie careers with their love of ranching, Joel and Frances were an anomaly amongst Hollywood stars, happily married for 57 years.

Frances Dee's career started in the early 30s. She appeared in over 50 features, co-starring with Katherine Hepburn in Little Women (1932); Bette Davis in Of Human Bondage, (1934); and Gary Cooper in Souls at Sea, (1937), to name a few.

Joel McCrea worked with almost every great leading lady, including Barbara Stanwyck, Ginger Rogers, Veronica Lake, Jean Arthur, and 7-year-old Shirley Temple. He was a favorite of director Preston Sturges, and worked with a wide range of great directors, including Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, William Wyler and Sam Peckinpah.

Joel McCrea and Frances Dee each have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and were both honored for lifetime achievement by the American Cinema Awards foundation. Joel won a Golden Globe, and was awarded a Career Achievement Award from the L.A. Film Critics Association. He was also elected to the Cowboy Hall of Fame of great western actors.

Peter McCrea will join film historian Jon Sonneborn in a discussion of Frances Dee and Joel McCrea's incredible careers, followed by a screening of one of the films they starred in together, the highly entertaining western FOUR FACES WEST.

Admission is free and the public is welcome.