Shirley Patterson
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Shirley Patterson, sometimes billed as Shawn Smith, (December 26, 1922 – April 4, 1995) was a Canadian born B-movie actress of the 1940s and 1950s.
Patterson began her acting career after being a beauty contestant in pageants in California in 1940. She graduated from the Mar-Ken School in Sherman Oaks, California in 1941, and shortly thereafter she signed a contract with Columbia Pictures. Her career spanned forty films, a small quantity of television appearances, and a serial.
A beautiful woman in her youth, Patterson played the role of heroine in the 1943 fifteen chapter Batman serial. In 1944 she starred in The Vigilantes Ride alongside Russell Hayden and Bob Wills. In 1946 she accompanied Eddie Dean and Roscoe Ates in the film Driftin River, and starred with them again that same year in Tumbleweed Trail. Two of her last films was the 1957 movie The Land Unknown, and the 1958 Sci-Fi film It! The Terror from Beyond Space, which also starred Ray "Crash" Corrigan who played a monster from outer space.
Patterson had a long fight with cancer in her later years, and died in 1995 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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Acting
Movie
Batman
as Linda Page
1943
Movie
It! The Terror from Beyond Space
as Ann Anderson
1958
Movie
The More the Merrier
as Girl (uncredited)
1943
Movie
World Without End
as Elaine
1956
Movie
The Harvey Girls
as Harvey Girl (uncredited)
1946
Movie
The Land Unknown
as Margaret 'Maggie' Hathaway
1957
Movie
The Silver Chalice
as Poppaea (uncredited)
1954
Movie
The Long Wait
as Carol Shay (as Shawn Smith)
1954
Movie
Destroyer
as Bigbee's Girl (uncredited)
1943
TV
Maigret
as Maid
1960
Movie
Spook Louder
as Perkins, the Secretary
1943
Movie
The French Line
as Elsie (uncredited)
1954
TV
Four Star Playhouse
as Betty Maxwell
1952
Movie
Phony Express
as Lola (bargirl)
1943
Movie
Keep Your Powder Dry
as WAC Brooks
1945
Movie
Dangerous Blondes
as Bride (uncredited)
1943
Movie
Between Two Women
as Nurse Thorsen
1945
Movie
Redhead from Manhattan
as Telephone Operator
1943
Movie
Marriage Is a Private Affair
as Mary Saunders
1944
Movie
The Texas Kid
as Nancy
1943
Movie
Good Luck, Mr. Yates
as Secretary
1943
Movie
Stars Over Texas
as Terry Lawrence
1946
Movie
Parachute Nurse
as Katherine Webb
1942
Movie
The Spirit of Stanford
as June Rogers
1942