Career
She also wrote songs for Elvis Presley in the films Blue Hawaii and Speedway. She was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. She co-wrote "I Taught Him Everything He Knows" with Arthur Kent.
This song was recorded by Ella Fitzgerald on her 1968 Capitol release Misty Blue.
She was the lyricist for the 1947 Broadway musical Barefoot Boy with Cheek. Dee wrote the words to a nonsense song that went to number 1 in 1945 called "Chickery Chick".
The music was written by Sidney Lippman and it was played by Sammy Kaye"s orchestra. Its nonsense lyrics included "Chickery chick, cha-la, cha-la".
At the time of her death in New York City, she was the wife of Doctor Jere Faison, a New York gynecologist.