Lee Patrick
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Lee Patrick (November 22, 1901 – November 21, 1982) 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 in 1941 as Sam Spade's assistant Effie in The Maltese Falcon, and her reprise of the role in the George Segal 1975 comedy sequel The Black Bird. Her talents were showcased in comedies such as the 1942 Jack Benny film George Washington Slept Here and in 1958 as one of the foils of Rosalind Russell in Auntie Mame. Dramatic parts such as an asylum inmate in the 1948 The Snake Pit and as Pamela Tiffin's mother in the 1961 Summer and Smoke 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.
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Acting
Movie
Vertigo
as Car Owner Mistaken for Madeleine
1958
Movie
The Maltese Falcon
as Effie Perine
1941
Movie
Mildred Pierce
as Maggie Biederhof
1945
Movie
Pillow Talk
as Mrs. Walters
1959
Movie
Now, Voyager
as Deb McIntyre
1942
TV
The Untouchables
as Lelah Dolan
1959
Movie
Auntie Mame
as Doris Upson
1958
Movie
The Snake Pit
as Asylum Inmate
1948
Movie
There's No Business Like Show Business
as Marge
1954
Movie
7 Faces of Dr. Lao
as Mrs. Howard Cassin
1964
Movie
Caged
as Elvira Powell
1950
Movie
In This Our Life
as Betty Wilmoth
1942
TV
The Rifleman
1958
Movie
Jitterbugs
as Dorcas
1943
Movie
Goodbye Again
as Madame Fleury
1961
Movie
City for Conquest
as Gladys
1940
Movie
Visit to a Small Planet
as Rheba Spelding
1960
TV
Wagon Train
as Mrs. Elliot Swinbourne Steele
1957
Movie
Summer and Smoke
as Mrs. Ewell
1961
Movie
Inner Sanctum
as Ruth Bennett
1948
Movie
Invisible Stripes
as Molly
1939
TV
77 Sunset Strip
as Nona Rumson
1958
Movie
Tomorrow Is Another Day
as Janet Higgins
1951
TV
Hazel
as Mrs. Durham
1961