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Joel Albert McCrea

Actor Joel McCrea and daughter (musician/actor/artist) Mona Leigh McCrea
(Submitted by Mona Leigh McCrea, 16 May 2007)

BIRTH: 5 Nov 1905, South Pasadena, Los Angeles, California
DEATH: 20 Oct 1990, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California
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Father: Thomas Pleasants McCrea (15 Nov 1871 - 25 Nov 1932)
Mother: Louise Dexter "Lou" Whipple (3 Mar 1872 - 5 Jul 1961)

Family 1: Frances Dee (26 Nov 1909 - 6 Mar 2004)

MARRIAGE: 20 Oct 1933, Rye, Westchester, New York

Joel Dee "Jody" McCrea (6 Sep 1934 - 4 Apr 2009)
David Thomas McCrea (15 Nov 1935 - 13 Nov 2020)

Family 2: Velma Marie Roberts "Mary" Turner (____ - Jan 2012)

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|--Joel Albert McCrea 
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|                                                                                                  _Daniel Whipple _____+
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|                                                                            _Joel Whipple _______|_Anne Chamberlain ___
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|                                                      _Knight Whipple _____|
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|                                                     |                     |_Deborah Bennett ____|_____________________
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|                               _Albert Whipple ______|
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|                              |                      |_Lucy Ballou ________|
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|                              |                                            |_Henrietta Brown ____|_Huldah Dexter ______
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|_Louise Dexter "Lou" Whipple _|
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Notes

!SOURCE: Email from Dennis R. McCrea to the Whipple Website, 23 Oct 2005: "Lou(ise) Dexter Whipple was the mother of movie actor Joel McCrea. His father was Thomas Pleasants McCrea who was born in 1871 in California. They were married Jul 14, 1897 in Los Angeles."

!SOURCE: Information from www.imdb.com.

!BIOGRAPHY: "One of the great stars of American Westerns, and a very popular leading man in non-Westerns as well." --www.imdb.com

!SOURCE: Email from Lindsay Mead McCrea (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 7 Mar 2008. Adds middle name.

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