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, Flora Gibbon, Madeleine Parkington Swann
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:

Effie Perine: Look at me, Sam. You worry me. You always think you know what you're doing, but you're too slick for your own good. Some day you're going to find it out.


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.


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.


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Lee Patrick Facts
Signed with RKO in 1937 so she could repeat her Broadway performance in Stage Door (1937). RKO owned the film rights. However, her role was rewritten for two other actresses, Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers.

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.

Died on the day before her 81st birthday.

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