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Pal Joey

as Mrs. Casey

1957
Katie Did It

as Aunt Priscilla Wakely

1951
Bright Leaf

as Tabitha Singleton

1950
Little Women

as Hannah

1949
Song of Surrender

as Mrs. Beecham

1949
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim

as Catherine Dennison

1947
Colonel Effingham's Raid

as Cousin Emma

1946
I've Always Loved You

as Mrs. Sompter

1946
Lady on a Train

as Aunt Charlotte Waring

1945
Follow the Boys

as Annie

1944
Together Again

as Jessie

1944
Hail the Conquering Hero

as Martha - Libby's Aunt

1944
The Sky's the Limit

as Mrs. Fisher

1943
I Married a Witch

as Margaret

1942
My Sister Eileen

as Grandma Sherwood

1942
The Vanishing Virginian

as Grandma

1942
Beyond the Blue Horizon

as Mrs. Daly

1942
Almost Married

as Aunt Matilda Manning

1942
Tobacco Road

as Ada Lester

1941
Belle Starr

as Sarah

1941
Remember the Night

as Aunt Emma

1940
Who Killed Aunt Maggie?

as Maggie Ambler

1940
Earthbound

as Becky Tilden

1940
Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police

as Aunt Blanche

1939
Bulldog Drummond's Bride

as Aunt Blanche

1939
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

as Aunt Hedwige

1938
Bulldog Drummond's Peril

as Aunt Blanche

1938
Elizabeth Patterson Elizabeth Patterson

Birthday

1875-11-22

Place of Birth

Savannah, Tennessee, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mary Elizabeth Patterson (November 22, 1874 – January 31, 1966) was an American theatre, film, and television character actress who gained popular recognition late in her career playing the elderly neighbor Matilda Trumbull on the television comedy series I Love Lucy. In 1926, at the age of 51, Patterson was cast in her first movie, a silent film, The Boy Friend. Transitioning successfully into the era of "talkies", she remained a very busy actress in Hollywood throughout the 1930s, averaging more than five films a year during that decade, usually in supporting roles. A few of her screen credits at that time include Tarnished Lady; Husband's Holiday; A Bill of Divorcement; So Big!; The Story of Temple Drake; Hold Your Man; Dinner at Eight; High, Wide, and Handsome; and No Man of Her Own. She also appeared in the role of Susan in two adaptations of John Willard's popular play The Cat and the Canary: The Cat Creeps in 1930 and The Cat and the Canary in 1939. Patterson continued to perform frequently in the 1940s, when she was cast in more than 30 additional films. Among her notable roles is her 1949 portrayal of the heroic character Eunice Habersham in the groundbreaking racial crime drama Intruder in the Dust, a film based on the William Faulkner novel of the same name and set in the Deep South. Although she would appear in a few more feature films in the 1950s, such as Washington Story and Pal Joey, Patterson by then began to focus her work increasingly on roles in the rapidly expanding medium of television. In 1952, at the age of 77, Patterson made her first appearance on the hit CBS-TV sitcom I Love Lucy in the episode "The Marriage License". Her character on I Love Lucy proved to be so popular among viewers, as well as useful to the writers of the series, that she continued in the role for three more years, often serving in episode storylines as a convenient babysitter for "Little Ricky". Prior to, during, and after her work on I Love Lucy, Patterson appeared in many other American television series during the 1950s and early 1960s. Her first credited performance on the "small screen" was in March 1950 in "The Walking Stick", a teleplay on the NBC anthology series The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre. During the 11 years after that initial televised performance to her final role on television in 1961, she portrayed characters in a variety of other series, including Pulitzer Prize Playhouse, Studio One in Hollywood, General Electric Theater, Stage 7, Lux Video Theatre, Crossroads, The Star and the Story, The Adventures of Jim Bowie, Adventures of Superman, New York Confidential, 77 Sunset Strip, Johnny Stacatto, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Playhouse 90, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, and The New Breed. Patterson, who never married, lived at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel during her 35-year film and television career.. On January 31, 1966, she died at age 91 in Los Angeles of complications from pneumonia. Her gravesite is in Savannah Cemetery in her hometown in Tennessee.
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