Elizabeth Patterson (actress)
Mary Elizabeth Patterson ( born November 22, 1874 in Savannah, Tennessee; † January 31, 1966 in Los Angeles ) was an American theater and film actress.
Life
Elizabeth Patterson was born in 1874 as the daughter of Mildred (nee McDougal ) and Edmund Dewitt Patterson, a soldier of the Confederate States of America, in Tennessee. In Hardin County, where her father worked as a judge later, Elizabeth Patterson attended the local high school. At colleges in Pulaski and Columbia, she discovered her passion for the theater, which she, contrary to the ideas of their strict parents decided to become an actress. A stay in Europe, where she experienced stage plays at the Comédie - Française, encouraged them in their decision. In Chicago, she eventually joined a drama troupe, the Ben Greet Players, at, by which it 1907 her theater debut, and then went on tour in the United States and Canada. In 1913 she made her first appearance on Broadway, where she repeatedly stood until 1954 on the stage. For his play The Intimate Strangers, which was performed from 1921 to 1922 on Broadway 91 times, they chose the writer Booth Tarkington for the role of Aunt Ellen personally made after he had seen them in other pieces on the stage.
With 51 years she played in 1926 in her first film. In the film musical The Smiling Lieutenant ( The Smiling Lieutenant, 1931) and the most beautiful, love me ( Love Me Tonight, 1932) it was the early 1930s, in small supporting roles with Maurice Chevalier in front of the camera. Other movies in which she was usually cast as a spinster aunt or grandmother, were High, Wide, and Handsome (1937 ), My sister Ellen ( My Sister Eileen, 1942), I Married a Witch (I Married a Witch, 1942), Little Women ( Little Women, 1949) and Pal Joey (1957). From 1950, she came regularly as a character actress in television used. The U.S. audience is primarily known as Mrs. Trumbull in the sitcom I Love Lucy, in which she appeared from 1952 to 1956 in eleven episodes.
Elizabeth Patterson, who was called by her friends Patty was never married. She died in 1966 at the age of 91 years at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles of pneumonia. She was buried in her hometown of Savannah.