Gail Patrick

Gail Patrick ( born June 20, 1911 in Birmingham, Alabama; † July 6, 1980 in Los Angeles, actually Margaret LaVelle Fitzpatrick ) was an American film actress.

Life

Gail Patrick was as Margaret LaVelle Fitzpatrick in Birmingham, Alabama, was born. After she had the Howard College successfully completed Bachelor, she studied law at the University of Alabama. During this time she took part in a spontaneous nationwide competition for a role in a Paramount film. She made it to the finals, but did not get the role. Nevertheless, they felt encouraged to go to Hollywood, where she was taken in 1932 by Paramount for $ 50 a week under contract.

Her first screen appearance was as an extra in the film If I had a million ( If I Had a Million, 1932), in which Gary Cooper played the lead role. There were other minor roles, but these were increasingly larger. Between 1932 and 1948, Patrick appeared in over 60 films in which she mostly played the calculating, cold-hearted rival of the protagonist, such as in My Man Godfrey ( My Man Godfrey, 1936) as Carole Lombard's spoiled sister or in My favorite wife ( My Favorite wife, 1940), where it vies with Irene Dunne for the affection of Cary Grant. In the stage door ( Stage Door, 1937), it provides up bitch wars with Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers. With Rogers, she was also in the star-studded episode film six destinies ( Tales of Manhattan, 1942) Julien Duvivier of seeing, under whose direction and Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, and Edward G. Robinson were used.

1948 Gail Patrick hung her acting career abruptly to the nail in order to operate as a designer of clothes, which she was very successful in the 1950s. Later she produced with her third husband Cornwell Jackson, the U.S. television series Perry Mason ( 1957-1966 ).

Gail Patrick was four times married. Her first husband was Robert Howard Cobb, where the famous Hollywood Brown Derby Restaurant was invented and named after him Cobb Salad. However, the marriage lasted only four period from 1936 until 1940. Their second marriage with Arnold Dean White lasted only one year ( 1944-1945 ). With Cornwell Jackson, whom she married in 1947, she adopted two children. But even this relationship fell apart - the divorce took place in 1969 with John Patrick E. Velde Jr. was married for the last six years of her life. . Gail Patrick, suffered from the time of their lives from diabetes, died in 1980 at the age of 69 from leukemia.

Filmography (selection)

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