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Lee Patrick was an American actress whose career began in 1922 on the New York stage with her role in The Bunch and Judy which headlined Adele Astaire and featured Adele's brother Fred Astaire. Patrick continued to perform in dozens of roles on the stage for the next decade, frequently in musicals and comedies, but also in dramatic parts like her 1931 performance as Meg in Little Women. She began to branch out into films in 1929. For half a century she created a credible body of cinematic work, her most memorable being as Sam Spade's assistant Effie in The Maltese Falcon (1941), and her reprise of the role in the George Segal comedy sequel The Black Bird (1975). Her talents were showcased in comedies such as the Jack Benny film George Washington Slept Here (1942) and as one of the foils of Rosalind Russell in Auntie Mame (1958). Dramatic parts such as an asylum inmate in The Snake Pit (1948) and as Pamela Tiffin's mother in the Summer and Smoke (1961) were another facet of her repertoire. She made numerous guest roles in American television, but became a staple for that medium during the two-year run of Topper. As Henrietta Topper, her comedic timing played well against Leo G. Carroll as her husband, and against that of the two ghosts played by Robert Sterling and Anne Jeffreys. Patrick lent her voice to various animated characters of The Alvin Show in the early 1960s.
Born
Friday, 22 November 1901
Died
Sunday, 21 November 1982
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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The Naked Archaeologist | Woman | 2005 |
The Black Bird | Effie | 1975 |
The New Interns | Mrs. Hitchcock | 1964 |
7 Faces of Dr. Lao | Mrs. Howard Cassin | 1964 |
The Farmer's Daughter | Geraldine Addison | 1963 |
Wives and Lovers | Mrs. Swanson | 1963 |
A Girl Named Tamiko | Mary Hatten | 1962 |
Summer and Smoke | Mrs. Ewell | 1961 |
The Alvin Show | Mrs. Frumpington | 1961 |
Hazel | Cora / Mrs. Durham | 1961 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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The Naked Archaeologist | Woman | 2005 |
The Black Bird | Effie | 1975 |
The New Interns | Mrs. Hitchcock | 1964 |
7 Faces of Dr. Lao | Mrs. Howard Cassin | 1964 |
The Farmer's Daughter | Geraldine Addison | 1963 |
Wives and Lovers | Mrs. Swanson | 1963 |
A Girl Named Tamiko | Mary Hatten | 1962 |
Summer and Smoke | Mrs. Ewell | 1961 |
The Alvin Show | Mrs. Frumpington | 1961 |
Hazel | Cora / Mrs. Durham | 1961 |
Follow the Sun | Phyllis Curran / Lila Jones | 1961 |
Goodbye Again | Madame Fleury | 1961 |
Harrigan and Son | Alice Finley | 1960 |
The Chevy Mystery Show | Mrs. Endicott | 1960 |
Visit to a Small Planet | Rheba Spelding | 1960 |
Pillow Talk | Mrs. Walters | 1959 |
Hawaiian Eye | Pearl Blake | 1959 |
Adventures in Paradise | Millicent | 1959 |
The Dennis O'Keefe Show | Aunt Millie | 1959 |
The Untouchables | Lelah Dolan | 1959 |
Auntie Mame | Doris Upson | 1958 |
77 Sunset Strip | Nona Rumson | 1958 |
Lawman | Mary Young / Bess Harper | 1958 |
The Rifleman | Leota Carraway | 1958 |
The Donna Reed Show | Maudie Baker | 1958 |
Vertigo | Car Owner Mistaken for Madeleine | 1958 |
The Real McCoys | Aunt Wilma / Clarissa Webster | 1957 |
The Thin Man | Eva Clark | 1957 |
Wagon Train | Mrs. Elliot Swinbourne Steele | 1957 |
Mr. Adams and Eve | Connie / Eve's Mother | 1957 |
The Adventures of Hiram Holliday | Mrs. Primrose | 1956 |
Circus Boy | Minerva Murdock | 1956 |
The 20th Century-Fox Hour | Emmie Wasey | 1955 |
Kings Row | Mrs. Johnson | 1955 |
Those Whiting Girls | Dolly | 1955 |
There's No Business Like Show Business | Marge | 1954 |
The Lineup | Julia Wyatt | 1954 |
Topper | Henrietta Topper / Mrs. Topper | 1953 |
Take Me to Town | Rose | 1953 |
The Abbott and Costello Show | Grocery Store Customer | 1952 |
I Married Joan | Mrs. Murdock / Mrs. Adams / Miss Everett | 1952 |
Mr. & Mrs. North | Grace Compton / Maggie McGinness | 1952 |
Boss Lady | Aggie | 1952 |
Mark Saber | Mrs. Gaunt | 1951 |
Tomorrow Is Another Day | Janet Higgins | 1951 |
Racket Squad | Virginia Langley | 1951 |
The Fuller Brush Girl | Claire Simpson | 1950 |
The Lawless | Jan Dawson | 1950 |
Caged | Elvira Powell | 1950 |
The Doolins of Oklahoma | Melissa Price | 1949 |
Hello Out There | The Wife | 1949 |
The Snake Pit | Asylum Inmate | 1948 |
Inner Sanctum | Ruth Bennett | 1948 |
Singin' Spurs | Clarissa Bloomsbury | 1948 |
Mother Wore Tights | Lil | 1947 |
Wake Up and Dream | The Blonde / Blonde | 1946 |
Strange Journey | Mrs. Lathrop | 1946 |
The Walls Came Tumbling Down | Susan | 1946 |
Mildred Pierce | Maggie Biederhof | 1945 |
Over 21 | Mrs. Foley | 1945 |
Keep Your Powder Dry | Gladys Hopkins | 1945 |
See My Lawyer | Sally Evans | 1945 |
Faces in the Fog | Cora Elliott | 1944 |
Mrs. Parkington | Madeleine Parkington Swann / Madeleine | 1944 |
Gambler's Choice | Fay Lawrence | 1944 |
Moon Over Las Vegas | Mrs. Blake | 1944 |
Larceny with Music | Agatha Parkinson | 1943 |
Nobody's Darling | Miss Pennington | 1943 |
Jitterbugs | Dorcas | 1943 |
A Night to Remember | Polly Franklin | 1943 |
George Washington Slept Here | Rena Leslie | 1942 |
Now, Voyager | 'Deb' McIntyre / Deb McIntyre | 1942 |
Somewhere I'll Find You | Eve 'Evie' Manning | 1942 |
In This Our Life | Betty Wilmoth | 1942 |
Dangerously They Live | Nurse Johnson / Head Nurse Johnson | 1941 |
The Maltese Falcon | Effie Perine | 1941 |
The Smiling Ghost | Rose Fairchild | 1941 |
Kisses for Breakfast | Betty Trent | 1941 |
Million Dollar Baby | Josie La Rue / Josie "Lou" La Rue | 1941 |
The Nurse's Secret | Ruth Adams | 1941 |
Footsteps in the Dark | Blondie White | 1941 |
Honeymoon for Three | Mrs. Pettijohn | 1941 |
Father Is a Prince | Tess Haley / Aunt Tess 'Tessie' Haley | 1940 |
South of Suez | Delia Snedeker | 1940 |
City for Conquest | Gladys | 1940 |
Money and the Woman | Miss Martha Church | 1940 |
Ladies Must Live | Mary Larrabee | 1940 |
Saturday's Children | Florrie Sands / Florrie Halevy Sands | 1940 |
Invisible Stripes | Molly | 1939 |
Fisherman's Wharf | Stella | 1939 |
The Sisters | Flora Gibbon | 1938 |
Law of the Underworld | Dorothy Palmer | 1938 |
Condemned Women | Anna 'Big Annie' Barry | 1938 |
Maid's Night Out | Kissing Milk Customer | 1938 |
Night Spot | Flo Bradley | 1938 |
Crashing Hollywood | Goldie Tibbets | 1938 |
Danger Patrol | Nancy Donovan | 1937 |
Music for Madame | Nora Burns | 1937 |
You Can't Beat Love | Undetermined Secondary Role | 1937 |
Border Cafe | Ellie | 1937 |