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Elizabeth Patterson

Highest Rated: 100% Remember the Night (1940)

Lowest Rated: 45% 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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Highest rated movies

100% 84% Remember the Night
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100% 83% Love Me Tonight
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96% 71% I Married a Witch
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95% 84% Hail the Conquering Hero
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93% 83% Intruder in the Dust
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91% 74% Dinner at Eight
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91% 69% No Man of Her Own
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88% 66% The Smiling Lieutenant
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86% 65% The Story of Temple Drake
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80% 65% My Sister Eileen
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Elizabeth Patterson

Elizabeth Patterson LOVE ME TONIGHT, Elizabeth Patterson, Maurice Chevalier, 1932 REMEMBER THE NIGHT, Elizabeth Patterson (left), Beulah Bondi (second left), Barbara Stanwyck (center), Fred MacMurray (right of center), director Mitchell Leisen (second right) and vistior, Barbara Burke (right), on set, 1940 SO BIG, Elizabeth Patterson, Barbara Stanwyck, 1932 REMEMBER THE NIGHT, Barbara Stanwyck, Beulah Bondi, Fred MacMurray, Elizabeth Patterson, 1940 GO WEST YOUNG MAN, Alice Brady, Elizabeth Patterson, 1936 SING YOU SINNERS, Fred MacMurray, Elizabeth Patterson, Ellen Drew, 1938 THE CAT AND THE CANARY, front to back: Douglass Montgomery, Gale Sondergaard, Elizabeth Patterson, Nydia Westman, Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, lobbycard, HIDE-OUT, seated around the table from left: Edward Arnold, Robert Montgomery, Maureen O'Sullivan, Elizabeth Patterson, Edward Brophy, Mickey Rooney, director W.S. Van Dyke (straw hat) on set, 1934 REMEMBER THE NIGHT, Barbara Stanwyck, Beulah Bondi, Fred MacMurray, Elizabeth Patterson, Sterling Holloway, 1940 View more photos

Filmography

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Credit
No Score Yet 39% Tall Story Connie (Character) - 1960
78% 60% Pal Joey Mrs. Casey (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet 57% Washington Story Miss Dee (Character) - 1952
No Score Yet 59% 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 40% Out of the Blue Miss Spring (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
96% 71% 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 No Score Yet Beyond the Blue Horizon Mrs. Daly (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet 37% Tobacco Road Ada Lester (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet 73% Michael Shayne, Private Detective Aunt Olivia (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet 35% 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
45% 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 44% Hide-Out "Ma" Miller (Character) - 1934
86% 65% The Story of Temple Drake Aunt Jennie (Character) - 1933
91% 74% Dinner at Eight Miss Copeland (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet 76% 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 Guilty as Hell Elvira Ward (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Expert Miss Crackenwald (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet 52% 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 87% 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