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Elizabeth Patterson
Actor
Born November 22, 1874 in Savannah, Tennessee, USA
A dainty but nevertheless feisty character actress, southern-bred (Mary) Elizabeth Patterson was born in Savannah, Tennessee, on November 22, 1874, and started her career over her strict parent's objections. She became a member of Chicago's Ben Greet Players, performing Shakespeare at the turn of the century. This followed college at Martin College where she studied music, elocution and English, and post-graduate work at Columbia Institute in Columbia, Tennessee. Elizabeth eventually traveled for well over a decade in stock tours before given the opportunity to debut on Broadway with the short-lived play "Everyman" in 1913. She continued in such other Broadway comedies and dramas as "The Family Exit (1917), "The Piper" (1920), "Magnolia" (1923), "The Book of Charm" (1925), "Spellbound" (1927), "Rope" (1928), "The Marriage Bed" (1929), "Her Master's Voice" (1933), "Yankee Point" (1942), "But Not Goodbye" (1944) and "His and Hers" (1954). By the time the veteran player finally advanced to the screen, she was 51 years of age. Starting with the silent films The Boy Friend (1926) and The Return of Peter Grimm (1926), she would be best recalled for her series of careworn ladies, playing a host of dressed-down, small-town folk -- grannies, aunts, spinsters, gossips, teachers, frontier women -- and other sweet-and-sour types. She added greatly to the atmosphere of such popular talking films as The Cat Creeps (1930), Penrod and Sam (1931), A Bill of Divorcement (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Doctor Bull (1933), So Red the Rose (1935), High, Wide and Handsome (1937), Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938) (and series: as Aunt Blanche), Anne of Windy Poplars (1940), The Cat and the Canary (1939), Remember the Night (1939), Tobacco Road (1941) (her most famous film role: as Ada Lister), Her Cardboard Lover (1942), I Married a Witch (1942), Hail the Conquering Hero (1944), Out of the Blue (1947), The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947), Little Women (1949), Intruder in the Dust (1949), Pal Joey (1957), and her final, Tall Story (1960). In the television arena, she appeared on several anthology shows ("Armstrong Circle Theatre," "Chevron Theatre," "Four Star Playhouse," "General Electric Theatre," "Pulitzer Prize Playhouse") and such regular shows as "The Adventures of Superman," "The Adventures of Jim Bowie," "77 Sunset Strip" and "Playhouse 90." She became a familiar household face, however, as the elderly neighbor and part-time babysitter, Mrs. Trumbull, on the I Love Lucy (1951) TV series. The never-married Elizabeth, who lived at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel her entire TV and film career, died on January 31, 1966, after contracting pneumonia. The 91-year-old lady was buried in a hometown cemetery.
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Dinner at Eight (1933)
Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police
Bulldog Drummond's Bride
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1
I Love Lucy - Season 1
Days Of Wine & Roses - Cliff Robertson & Piper Laurie, "Playhouse 90" Original TV Version
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse: The Man in the Funny Suit
The Adventures of Superman Season 1
Intruder in the Dust (1949)
Two Sharp Knives
Remember the Night
Love Me Tonight
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Filmography
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1960
Tall Story
1958
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse: The Man in the Funny Suit
1957
Pal Joey
1956
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
Days Of Wine & Roses - Cliff Robertson & Piper Laurie, "Playhouse 90" Original TV Version
1955
The Star and the Story
The Battler (1955)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1
Norah Jones - Front Row Center
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1955)
1954
Climax
1953
A Child is Born - A Christmas Story Presented By Ronald Reagan
1952
The Adventures of Superman Season 1
Cavalcade of America
Four Star Playhouse: Dark Meeting
1951
I Love Lucy - Season 1
1950
Bright Leaf
1949
Little Women (1949)
Intruder in the Dust (1949)
1948
Milton Berle Show
Two Sharp Knives
1947
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
Welcome Stranger (1944)
1946
I've Always Loved You
Colonel Effingham's Raid
1945
Lady on a Train
1943
The Sky's the Limit
1942
Her Cardboard Lover (1942)
I Married a Witch
1941
Tobacco Road
1940
Michael Shayne Private Detective in Sleepers West Mystery Film
1939
The Cat and the Canary (1939)
Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police
Bulldog Drummond's Bride
Remember the Night
1938
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
1937
High, Wide and Handsome
1933
Hold Your Man (1933)
Dinner at Eight (1933)
Doctor Bull (1933)
Secret of the Blue Room
1932
They Call It Sin (1932)
Love Me Tonight
A Bill of Divorcement
No Man of Her Own (1932)
Man Wanted (1932)
Miss Pinkerton (1932)
1931
The Smiling Lieutenant
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