Gail Patrick
Acting
Biography
Gail Patrick (born Margaret LaVelle Fitzpatrick, June 20, 1911 - July 6, 1980) was an American film actress. She appeared in 62 movies between 1932 and 1948. Some of these roles are in My Favorite Wife, Dangerous to Know, and in My Man Godfrey. Patrick retired from acting in films in 1948 and later became a producer of Perry Mason.
Born: June 20, 1911
Place of Birth: Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Known For
My Man Godfrey
Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.
Gallant Sons
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
Stage Door
The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel.
My Favorite Wife
Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her husband recently remarrying. But he too gets a shock when he learns that Ellen spent her time alone on an island with another man.
Doubting Thomas
A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also going on stage.
Two-Fisted
A fast-talking boxing manager and the somewhat hapless fighter he manages happen to run into a young man who was a good prizefighter in his day but is now out of the sport and has a drinking problem. They decide to train him for a big match, and in the process find themselves involved in romance, shady characters and a possible kidnapping.
Early to Bed
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does rope Chester into marriage, he can't get time off from his boss of 26 years, Mr. Frisbee. To resolve the problem, Chester sets out to impress his boss by securing a big sales contract of glass eyes. He takes Tessie and follows the rich doll company owner Horace B. Stanton to a lakeside resort and befriends him. However, his sleep-walking makes him a prime suspect in a thievery/murder case.
Claudia and David
The follow-up film to "Claudia", with Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young reprising their earlier roles as a young married couple living in a small Connecticut town.
Mad About Music
A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things happen as she talks a visiting Englishman into helping her out.
Quiet Please, Murder
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Isobel Grayson in 'Love Crazy' (archive footage)
as Audrey O'Connor
as Ellen Taggert
as Olivia Radford
as Cathy Arnesen
as Dolores Starr
as Julia Naughton
as Ella Randolph
as Mary Hale
as Barbara Drew
as Mabel Essington
as Margot Bracken
as Toni Jarrett
as Myra Blandy
as Ellen
as Linda Wayne
as Lorraine Bennett
as Isobel Kimble Grayson
as Clare Pendleton
as Bianca Bates
as Marilyn Thomas
as Jessie Gibbs
as Agnes Carren
as Margaret Lea
as Joan Carroll
as Dale Borden
as Lucy Stowell
as Margaret Van Kase
as Gwen Taylor
as Linda Shaw
as Cynthia Wentworth
as Natalie Martin
as Caroline Haig
as Helen Varek
as Meg Archer
as Cornelia Bullock
as Grace Stanton
as Claire Woodward
as Irene Lassiter
as Marcia Stewart
as Herself (uncredited)
as Sue Parker
as Nurse
as Ruth Virey
as Kay Reynolds
as Florence McCrickett
as Therese Germane
as Elvira
as Patsy Fletcher
as Ellen Barclay
as Nancy Wellington
as Cornelia Burbank
as Sadie Evans
as Helen Stanley
as Rhoda
as Sister Maria Lucia
as Ann Hayden Stanley
as (uncredited)
as Jerry Evans
as Party Girl (uncredited)
as Laura Hamilton
as Mary Benton Foster
as New Secretary at Idylwood (uncredited)