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Elizabeth Patterson
Highest Rated: 100% Remember the Night (1940)
Lowest Rated: 50% Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
Birthday: Nov 22, 1875
Birthplace: Savannah, Tennessee, USA
Often playing waspish or sweet old ladies, Elizabeth Patterson forever earned a place in TV history as Mrs. Trumbull, the neighbor who was Little Ricky's babysitter, on the perennial favorite "I Love Lucy." Although that may remain her best-known part, the actress had begun her career at the turn of the 20th Century on stage and arrived in Hollywood in 1926, appearing in silent films like "The Boy Friend" and "The Return of Peter Grimm." Patterson went on to play the high-pitched Aunt Blanche to John Barrymore's amateur sleuth in several "Bulldog Drummond" programmers in the 1930s. She was well cast as the mother trying to hold her family together in the 1941 feature adaptation of "Tobacco Road" (1941). In all, Patterson appeared in more than 90 films ending her career at age 85 in 1960's "Tall Story."
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 41% | Tall Story | Connie (Character) | - | 1960 |
| 80% | 60% | Pal Joey | Mrs. Casey (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | Washington Story | Miss Dee (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | 58% | Bright Leaf | Tabitha Singleton (Character) | - | 1950 |
| 93% | 83% | Intruder in the Dust | Miss Eunice Habersham (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Song of Surrender | Mrs. Beecham (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Shocking Miss Pilgrim | Catherine Dennison (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Welcome Stranger | Mrs. Gilley (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Secret Heart | Mrs. Stover (Character) | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | I've Always Loved You | Mrs. Sompter (Character) | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Colonel Effingham's Raid | Cousin Emma (Character) | - | 1945 |
| 95% | 84% | Hail the Conquering Hero | Libby's Aunt (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | 55% | The Sky's the Limit | Mrs. Fisher (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | Her Cardboard Lover | Eva (Character) | - | 1942 |
| 95% | 70% | I Married a Witch | Margaret (Character) | - | 1942 |
| 80% | 65% | My Sister Eileen | Grandma Sherwood (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lucky Legs | Annabelle Dinwiddie (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | 35% | Tobacco Road | Ada Lester (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | Belle Starr | Sarah (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kiss the Boys Goodbye | Aunt Lily Lou Bethany (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Vanishing Virginian | Grandma Yancey (Character) | - | 1941 |
| 100% | 84% | Remember the Night | Aunt Emma (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Earthbound | Becky Tilden (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | 29% | Bulldog Drummond's Bride | Aunt Blanche (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police | Aunt Blanche Clavering (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bad Little Angel | Mrs. Perkins (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Our Leading Citizen | Aunt Tillie (Character) | - | 1939 |
| 50% | 63% | Bluebeard's Eighth Wife | Aunt Hedwige (Character) | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | High, Wide and Handsome | Grandma Cortlandt (Character) | - | 1937 |
| 60% | 17% | Go West, Young Man | Aunt Kate Barnaby (Character) | - | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | 61% | Small Town Girl | Ma Brannan (Character) | - | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Old Hutch | Mrs. Sarah Hutchins (Character) | - | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Three Cheers for Love | Wilma Chester (Character) | - | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chasing Yesterday | Mlle. Prefere (Character) | - | 1935 |
| No Score Yet | 41% | Hide-Out | "Ma" Miller (Character) | - | 1934 |
| 86% | 63% | The Story of Temple Drake | Aunt Jennie (Character) | - | 1933 |
| 91% | 74% | Dinner at Eight | Miss Copeland (Character) | - | 1933 |
| No Score Yet | 75% | Hold Your Man | Miss Tuttle (Character) | - | 1933 |
| No Score Yet | 39% | Ever in My Heart | Clara Tuttle (Character) | - | 1933 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | Man Wanted | Miss Harper (Character) | - | 1932 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Miss Pinkerton | Aunt Juliet Mitchell (Character) | - | 1932 |
| 60% | 57% | A Bill of Divorcement | Aunt Hester Fairfield (Character) | - | 1932 |
| 91% | 69% | No Man of Her Own | Mrs. Randall (Character) | - | 1932 |
| 100% | 83% | Love Me Tonight | First Aunt (Character) | - | 1932 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | New Morals for Old | Aunty Doe (Character) | - | 1932 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Expert | Miss Crackenwald (Character) | - | 1932 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | So Big | Mrs. Tebbit (Character) | - | 1932 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Life Begins | Mrs. Tubby (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1932 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tarnished Lady | Mrs. Courtney (Character) | - | 1931 |
| 88% | 66% | The Smiling Lieutenant | Baroness von Schwedel (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1931 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Daddy Long Legs | Mrs. Lippett (Character) | - | 1931 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Boy Friend | Mrs. Harper (Character) | - | 1926 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Return of Peter Grimm | Mrs. Bartholomey (Character) | - | 1926 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 85% | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Miss Bessie (Character) | 1958-1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Johnny Staccato | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 77 Sunset Strip | Lavinia (Guest Star) | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Showcase 39 | Unknown (Character) | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Climax! | Unknown (Character) | 1955-1957 |
| No Score Yet | 97% | I Love Lucy | Mrs. Willoughby (Guest Star) | 1952-1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Superman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1955-1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Studio One | Aunt March (Character) | 1950 |