Job Actress
Years active 1929-1975
Known for Shop-soiled blondes, secretaries, confidantes
Top Roles Asylum Inmate, Car Owner Mistaken for Madeleine, Mrs. Maggie Biederhof, Blondie White, Marge
Top GenresDrama, Comedy, Romance, Crime, Film Adaptation, Musical
Top TopicsBook-Based, Romance (Drama), Mistaken Identity
Top Collaborators (Producer), (Director), , (Director)
Shares birthday with Geraldine Page, Michael Callan, Howard Petrie  see more..

Lee Patrick Overview:

Character actress, Lee Patrick, was born on Nov 22, 1901 in New York City, NY. Patrick died at the age of 81 on Nov 21, 1982 in Laguna Hills, CA .

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Lee Patrick was a plain but peppy American actress, hard on the heels of Veda Ann Borg and Gladys George in the shop-soiled blonde stakes, although not quite in the same mold, being just as likely to turn up as secretary (supremely as Girl-Friday Effie in The Maltese Falcon, a role she amusingly reprised 34 years later in The Black Bird), or confidante. She died from a heart attack.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Illustrated Dictionary of Film Character Actors).

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Day 21 of Noirvember: Remembering

By shadowsandsatin on Nov 21, 2017 From Shadows and Satin

With Bogart in The Maltese Falcon. She was Effie Perine in The Maltese Falcon (1941). Maggie Biederhof in Mildred Pierce (1945). Elvira Powell in Caged (1950). could do it all. Undeniably talented but woefully underrated, Patrick died on today?s date in 1982, just one day before her 81st... Read full article


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Lee Patrick Quotes:

Elvira Powell: I didn't know what kind of a heel Harper is. She's like a cop I was sweet on once. He had to work guys over for no reason at all, just because it made him feel important. If I'd known I wouldn't have started on you.


Shorty - Mug at Party: What's the matter with you, Chuck? I don't fool with no other guy's dames.
Molly: [Sarcastically] I can believe that.


[first lines]
Sam Spade: Yes, sweetheart?
Effie Perine: There's a girl wants to see you. Her name's Wonderly.
Sam Spade: A customer?
Effie Perine: I guess so. You'll want to see her anyway. She's a knockout.


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Lee Patrick Facts
Died on the day before her 81st birthday.

She was not in good standing with Louella Parsons and it kept her career stuck in the "B" ranks. Lee's husband, magazine writer Tom Wood, wrote a frank piece on Parsons which did not go over well with the powerhouse columnist.

Was once seriously considered for the title role in the tearjerker Stella Dallas (1937), which went to Barbara Stanwyck, who won an Oscar nomination.

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