Name:
Date of Birth:
Lee Patrick
22 November 1901
Lee Patrick played in 12 movies in the Adventure, Drama, Music, Music, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Western genres.
Lee Patrick got succeed with average imdb rating 7.3.
Lee Patrick could play a strong, scrapping, hard-bitten dame as she did in the gritty women's prison drama _Caged (1950)_ (qv), or the meek and twittery socialite wife as exemplified as Doris Upson in the freewheeling farce _Auntie Mame (1958)_ (qv). The versatile character actress had plenty of places to go in films and TV and she did, with a view to five decades. Born in New York City in 1901, Lee's father was an editor of a customers hang wallpaper who prompted her interest in theater. She st... arted off on the property echelon as a teen and debuted on Broadway in The Gullible Beetle (1924), stylish a large and favoured NY stage presence during the 20s and primeval 30s with such scene-filching roles in June Moon, Little Women, Blessed Incident and Manipulate Door. Good notices in the mould malfunction led to an RKO contract and substantial secondary skin work starting in 1937. Next to the 40s she had became an costly Warner Bros. cache gambler enhancing such movies as _The Sisters (1938)_ (qv), _Saturday's Children (1940)_ (qv), _Precariously They Survive (1941)_ (qv), _Now, Voyager (1942)_ (qv), _Mrs. Parkington (1944)_ (qv), and _Mildred Pierce (1945)_ (qv). However, in all likelihood her best known duty of that period was that of Effie, the wry, altruistic Girl Friday to 'Humphrey Bogart (I)' 's Sam Spade in the classic _The Maltese Falcon (1941)_ (qv). Lee also found time to do tranny with a game part on The O'Neils. During her potboiler run at Warners, she seemed to play everything with a sharp, cynical uptight, from nurses to floozies, but in the mid-50s the in the present climate matronly actress instantaneously seemed to blossom before our very eyes into a dithery and simple Billie Burke- delight as she geared herself toward comedy eccentrics. TV got a heads up on this angle when she played society doyenne Henrietta Topper, the flighty, quivery-voiced wife of Leo G. Carroll on the everyday sinister sitcom _"Topper" (1953)_ (qv) which ran from 1953 to 1955. And there would be other fun and fluttery turns in _Pillow Talk (1959)_ (qv) and _7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)_ (qv), to name a couple. In the mid-1960s Lee retired to expeditions and warpaint, but was coaxed deny one more on occasion to renew her role of Effie in the Maltese Falcon spoof _The Ebony Bird (1975)_ (qv). The but everyone joining her from the original pitch was 'Elisha Cook Jr.' (qv). Hunger and happily married to newsman-reporter Tom Wood of "The Lighter Side of Billy Wilder," Lee was plagued sooner than health problems in later years and died of a nerve seizure in 1982. They had no children.Read more Less
