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Gail Patrick
20 June 1911
Gail Patrick played in 6 movies in the Horror, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Comedy, Music, Drama, Musical genres.
Gail Patrick got succeed with average imdb rating 7.2.
Entirely, calculating and hard-as-nails is perhaps the best definition of Gail Patrick's femmes on the 30s and 40s silver screen, and the actress herself was no softie in real vitality. The tall, inadequate, patrician belle was born with the equally majestic-sounding name Margaret LaVelle Fitzpatrick in Birmingham, Alabama, on June 20, 1911. She received a B.A. and was a dean of women at her alma mater, Howard College, for a time. She was studying pre-law at the University of Alabama at the time... she, by happenstance, became a finalist in a nationwide contest for a Essential film role (which she did not climb up). This led her to booming to Hollywood and, despite her loss, the studio enshroud up oblation her a studio contract at $50 a week (she managed to finagle her avenue to $75). After the usual grooming in grain parts, Gail moved stealthily up the ladder to featured roles in a assortment of genres including the fantasy _Downfall Takes a Sabbatical (1934)_ (qv), the melodramatic thriller _Crime of Helen Stanley (1934)_ (qv), the lilting _Mississippi (1935)_ (qv) and the relaxing comedy _Early to Bed (1936)_ (qv). Equitable as quickly she began essaying the occasional co-star or best lady -- that of a lady lawyer in _Disbarred (1939)_ (qv) and a romantic diversion in the 'Zane Grey (I)' (qv) western adaptations of _Wagon Wheels (1934)_ (qv) and _Wanderer of the Wasteland (1935)_ (qv). She was most identified, anyhow, in manipulative second leads while usually tangling with the big shot femme as the "other woman," egotistical socialite or conniving villainess. Gail participated grandly in three well-known film classics. In the screwball comedy _My Man Godfrey (1936)_ (qv), she was at odds with 'Carole Lombard (I)' (qv) as a spoiled, treacherous sister; in _Stage Door (1937)_ (qv), she tied up in some marvelous cat fights with 'Ginger Rogers' (qv) as a cynical wannabe actress, and in _My Favorite Better half (1940)_ (qv) she played 'Cary Grant' (qv)'s stern younger wife who be compelled contend with the reappearance of his first, supposedly barren wife 'Irene Dunne' (qv). Gail exuded madcap, confidence, assertiveness and beauty in all her characters, nothing less, and her male co-stars were the sturdiest assortment Hollywood could proffer -- 'Bing Crosby' (qv), 'Randolph Scott (I)' (qv), 'Richard Dix (I)' (qv), 'John Howard (I)' (qv), 'Preston Foster (I)' (qv), 'Dean Jagger' (qv) and 'George Sanders (I)' (qv). In 1947, she did an abrupt about-face and socialistic her highly respectable livelihood following her third marriage. After involving herself successfully in clothes design, she became (as Gail Patrick Jackson) executive producer of the _"Perry Mason" (1957)_ (qv) TV series (1957-1966), alongside business and husband (Thomas) 'Cornwell Jackson' (qv), who was a literary agent to founder/founder 'Erle Stanley Gardner' (qv). The courtroom "whodunnit" was a hanker and very successful overshoot. She and Jackson divorced in 1969, and one of her scattering failures in life was in her undertaking to revive the series with _"The New Perry Mason" (1973)_ (qv) in 1973, but 'Monte Markham' (qv) was a mighty pale comparison to 'Raymond Burr' (qv) in the title post and the appear quickly tanked. Divorced three times, she and Mr. Jackson had two adopted children. She was married to fourth quash John Velde Jr., at the time of her death in 1980 of leukemia. She was 69. Gail died in 1980 of leukemia.Read more Less
