Hollywood actress Sandra Dee, best known as the irrepressible "Gidget" and the wife of singer Bobby Darin, has died in Los Angeles. She was 63.

The blonde beauty who set the icon for the 1960s good looks died Sunday of complications from kidney disease after spending nearly two weeks in hospital, reported the Internet Media Database.

The actress who was famously mocked at in the song "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee" from the musical "Grease" is survived by a son and two granddaughters.

Born Alexandra Zuck, and already a model by the age of 12, Dee skyrocketed to fame with teen comedy "Gidget" and romantic drama "A Summer Place" in 1959.

Her marriage to Darin was recently chronicled in Kevin Spacey's "Beyond the Sea", in which Dee was played by Kate Bosworth.