Patricia Morison
Eileen Patricia Augusta Fraser Morison ( born March 19, 1915 in New York City, New York ) is an American actress.
Life
Born as the daughter of immigrants from Ireland playwright and occasional actor William Morison and the British parent Selena, she grew up in the Lower East Side in New York and attended the Art Students League of New York. First engagements on Broadway as understudy in plays she received from 1933. From a scout discovered, began her film career by growing. After her film debut with Persons in Hiding 1939, she first played in mediocre productions and left Paramount after three years to work as a freelancer. Among other things, she toured during World War II for the United Service Organizations as troop entertainment in the UK. You made her voice further. The film deals - probably best known to the comedy wise for love in 1945 with Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy and the Sherlock Holmes film chasing game cans a year later - remained moderate. In 1948 she succeeded to the title role in the original performance of Cole Porter's Kiss me Kate the start of a musical career. Your role of Lilli Vanessi at the New Century Theatre and Shubert Theatre, followed by the equally great success of The King and I by Rodgers & Hammerstein at the side of the young, then at the beginning of his career standing Yul Brynner, with whom she also toured, they made nationwide known.
Patricia Morison returned - except for small guest roles - not the movies back. Your future career she pursued alongside the Musical ( including The Sound of Music, 1972), especially on television, most recently in 1989 as a guest star in the television series Cheers. Patricia Morison was long regarded as the woman with the longest hair in Hollywood. Morison has a mezzo- soprano voice.