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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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 6.72 |
Birthday | 1901-11-22 |
Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
Also Known As | Lee Salome Patrick, |
1958
Vertigo
8.2/5714
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming danger...
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Vertigo
1941
The Maltese Falcon
7.7/1664
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
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The Maltese Falcon
1945
Mildred Pierce
7.6/388
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
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Mildred Pierce
1954
There's No Business Like Show Business
6/94
Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Youngest son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fa...
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There's No Business Like Show Business
1940
City for Conquest
6.8/32
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York C...
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City for Conquest
1942
Now, Voyager
7.3/200
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
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Now, Voyager
1942
George Washington Slept Here
6.231/13
New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill's knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in Pennsy...
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George Washington Slept Here
1950
Caged
7.1/69
A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.
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Caged
1964
7 Faces of Dr. Lao
6.9/87
An old Chinese man rides into the town of Abalone, Arizona and changes it forever, as the citizens see themselves reflected in the mirror of Lao's mys...
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7 Faces of Dr. Lao
1951
Tomorrow Is Another Day
6.5/21
A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the outside world and escape his lurid past. He gets...
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Tomorrow Is Another Day
1942
In This Our Life
6.7/46
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.
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In This Our Life
1948
The Snake Pit
7/99
Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions an...
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The Snake Pit
1941
Footsteps in the Dark
6.9/9
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of...
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Footsteps in the Dark
1958
Auntie Mame
6.948/105
Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues w...
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Auntie Mame
1950
The Lawless
5.8/15
A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers.
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The Lawless
1948
Inner Sanctum
5/26
A killer hides out in a small-town boarding house.
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Inner Sanctum
1942
Somewhere I'll Find You
5.9/12
Journalist brothers feud over a woman they both fall for while covering World War II in the far east.
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Somewhere I'll Find You
1944
Mrs. Parkington
6/16
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Mrs. Parkington
1941
Dangerously They Live
5.9/8
A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.
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Dangerously They Live
1941
The Smiling Ghost
6.5/7
Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a mo...
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The Smiling Ghost
1975
The Black Bird
4.6/9
The son of famous detective Sam Spade carries on the family tradition of getting involved with the Maltese Falcon - and with the people who will stop...
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The Black Bird
1942
A Night to Remember
6.3/13
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to creat...
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A Night to Remember
1941
Million Dollar Baby
6/3
A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.
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Million Dollar Baby
1950
The Fuller Brush Girl
6/10
A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation.
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The Fuller Brush Girl
1961
Summer and Smoke
6.7/25
In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door.
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Summer and Smoke
1946
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
5.857/7
A PI investigates a priest's murder.
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The Walls Came Tumbling Down
1947
Mother Wore Tights
5.3/9
In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus lin...
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Mother Wore Tights
1967
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
0/0
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Pistols 'n' Petticoats
1949
The Doolins of Oklahoma
6.8/10
When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the lea...
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The Doolins of Oklahoma
1953
Take Me to Town
5.7/3
Saloon entertainer Vermilion O'Toole and her former partner in crime Newt Cole escape from a train ride to prison and hide out in logging town Timberl...
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Take Me to Town
1940
Father Is A Prince
5/1
Carpet-sweeper manufacturer John Bower has no patience with inefficiency, lawyers, or vacuum cleaners. He's a bit of a skinflint, too. His family thin...
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Father Is A Prince
1940
Saturday's Children
6.4/8
An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.
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Saturday's Children
1949
Hello Out There
5.1/6
Director James Whale's last film, it was supposed to be part of an anthology film but was never released. A down on his luck gambler ends up in jail i...
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Hello Out There
1938
Crashing Hollywood
5.8/5
A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood.
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Crashing Hollywood
1937
Border Cafe
6.3/3
The spoiled, hard-partying son of a senator runs away from home after being reprimanded by his father, finds himself down-on-his luck in a tiny wester...
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Border Cafe
1938
Law of the Underworld
5.3/3
A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution
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Law of the Underworld
1962
A Girl Named Tamiko
5/2
A photographer based in Tokyo, who's in love with local beauty Tamiko, begins to court an embassy official so she can help him gain entry into the Uni...
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A Girl Named Tamiko
1941
The Nurse's Secret
5/4
An apparent suicide by a rich woman leads her nurse and a policeman to an insurance scam.
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The Nurse's Secret
1941
Kisses for Breakfast
5.5/2
A newlywed develops amnesia and can't remember his wife.
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Kisses for Breakfast
1938
Condemned Women
6.3/3
A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.
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Condemned Women
1945
Keep Your Powder Dry
5.9/7
A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
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Keep Your Powder Dry
1939
Fisherman's Wharf
6/1
Carlo Roma and his foster-son, Toma, and their friend Beppo, are living a happy fisherman's life in San Francisco until Carlo's widowed sister-in-law,...
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Fisherman's Wharf
1938
Maid's Night Out
6.2/3
A millionaire's son works as a milkman for a month to win a bet with his father. While delivering milk he falls in love with a young debutante whom he...
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Maid's Night Out
1940
Money and the Woman
4.3/3
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
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Money and the Woman
1940
Ladies Must Live
6/1
A small town farmer, who happens to be very wealthy, meets and falls for an actress, but his friends warn him she's only interested in his money.
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Ladies Must Live
1946
Wake Up and Dream
6.5/3
Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.
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Wake Up and Dream
1943
Jitterbugs
5.821/39
The two-man Laurel and Hardy Zoot Suit Band find themselves fronting a scam for "gasolene pills" in wartime oil-short America. They are however soon o...
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Jitterbugs
1944
Gambler's Choice
6/3
The professional gambler Ross Hadley is the owner of a posh gaming establishment in the heart of New York...
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Gambler's Choice
1938
Night Spot
4.7/3
A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two of the band-members are in reality undercover-pol...
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Night Spot
1937
Danger Patrol
5.3/3
An explosives carrier at an oil field falls in love with a colleague's daughter.
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Danger Patrol
1940
South of Suez
5/3
Greedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him from taking over kindly, but drunken, mine owner Roger S...
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South of Suez
1941
Honeymoon for Three
5.8/5
Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, is on a book tour when he meets up with a former college fling with a loopy...
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Honeymoon for Three
1944
Moon Over Las Vegas
0/0
A beautiful woman goes to Las Vegas in a scheme to make her husbnd jealous, but once she gets there she becomes involved with another man.
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Moon Over Las Vegas
1943
Nobody's Darling
0/0
Ugly duckling Janie Farnsworth is a student at Pennington High School, and has a crush on Charles Grant, Jr., who is the writer and producer of the up...
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Nobody's Darling
1944
Faces in the Fog
3/1
Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the docto...
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Faces in the Fog
1938
The Sisters
6.1/10
Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
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The Sisters
1959
Pillow Talk
7.1/276
Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him a...
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Pillow Talk
1943
Larceny with Music
4/2
A former bootlegger is now the prosperous owner of a popular nightclub. A hustling promoter manages to pass off a young singer as the heir to a fortun...
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Larceny with Music
1937
Music for Madame
5/2
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party w...
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Music for Madame
1948
Singin' Spurs
0/0
In order to help neighboring Indians irrigate their farms, the Hotshots plan to put on a fair for tourists. But first they need $2000 for an advertisi...
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Singin' Spurs
1946
Strange Journey
6/1
Reformed racketeer "Lucky" Leeds flees from the police when he thinks they are about to arrest him for a murder he didn't commit. He and his wife Patt...
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Strange Journey
1929
Strange Cargo
6/1
On board a yacht sailing from India to Britain, the owner of the vessel is murdered by one of the passengers. (This film was produced both in full sou...
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Strange Cargo
1945
See My Lawyer
6/2
Ole and Chic are comedians employed in a nightclub, but seeking to be released from their contracts to take a better job. But the prissy nightclub own...
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See My Lawyer
1945
Over 21
4.7/3
A woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old newspaper editor who has just joined the army.
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Over 21
1961
Goodbye Again
7.1/35
Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier rejects the advances of her client's amusing 25-year-old son, Philip Van der Besh, but reconsiders when her lo...
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Goodbye Again
1953
The Backbone of America
0/0
An account executive tries to find the perfect American family to use in a forthcoming advertising campaign.
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The Backbone of America
1939
Invisible Stripes
6.1/19
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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Invisible Stripes
1960
Visit to a Small Planet
5.3/29
The weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth... Jerry Lewis is Kreton, a childish alien who, against his teacher's will leaves his planet t...
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Visit to a Small Planet
1963
Wives and Lovers
4.6/7
Husband and wife Bill and Bertie Austin and their daughter live in a low-rent apartment. He's a struggling writer, at least until agent Lucinda Ford b...
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Wives and Lovers
1964
The New Interns
5/3
Young doctors mix romance with their careers in a big-city hospital.
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