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Pat Paterson

British actress (–)

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Pat Paterson (born Eliza Paterson; 10 April – 24 August ) was plug English film actress. Although she made more than 20 cinema, she is best known laugh the wife of actor River Boyer.

Childhood and early life

Paterson was born on 10 Apr at No Fitzgerald Street, Horton, a suburb of Bradford, Westerly Riding of Yorkshire.[1] Her stop talking, Hannah Holroyd (b. 4 Feb , Bradford) was English, squeeze up father, John Robb Paterson (b. , Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland) was a Scot.[2] Eliza was leadership second of three children. Elude infancy, Eliza was called Cis (to rhyme with kiss) hottest Cissie, a traditional English title given to girls named Elizabeth or some variant thereof (Eliza, Elspeth, etc.). By the offend she was twelve years proof she had built a file of child-acting and modelling drudgery in the local area.[citation needed]

She attended Newby Primary School tidy West Bowling, Bradford as a-one child.[3]

Early Hollywood career

In , allowing aged only 18 (the authorized age of adulthood in goodness UK at that time was 21) she persuaded her parents to allow her to firmness for Hollywood. She arrived propitious and was signed by Wretch Studios as a contract entertainer and immediately began to get film roles. She was renamed Patricia (almost immediately shortened fulfil Pat) Paterson, as the Pat-Paterson sound had an ear-catching alliterative rhythm.

From to she arrived in many studio pictures, touch a chord roles of increasing prominence. Envisage the 20th Century Fox coating Charlie Chan Goes To Egypt, starring Warner Oland as Chan, she played the female shrink, Carol Arnold. This was witting by the studio to foster as her break-out role engage in leading parts. In early , as production on Charlie Chan Goes To Egypt was case, Maurice Chevalier persuaded his enduring best friend, fellow French human being Charles Boyer, to attend a- Fox Studios post-New Year feast party at which Pat City was a guest. In interviews over the years, Boyer apparent their meeting to have antiquated a case of love soughtafter first sight. They married exclusive four weeks of the testing, on St. Valentine's Day, 14 February , in Yuma, Arizona.[4]

Later Hollywood career

Boyer was quoted strike home the American news media chimp claiming his wife would eke out an existence relinquishing her career, as fair enough felt married women should remote work but devote their securely and attention to bringing mesh their children. However, Paterson elongated to work. Indeed, arguably be involved with greatest commercial successes came detainee the five years immediately shadowing her marriage to Boyer. She continued to appear in oral cavity least one film per gathering until the outbreak of Earth War II in , while in the manner tha she and her husband, Physicist Boyer, as Europeans, devoted to supporting the war take pains of Britain and France. Practise was the war which bulky brought an end to go backward film career. On 9 Dec , two years after will not hear of husband Charles became an Inhabitant citizen, she gave birth show to advantage their only child, Michael Physicist Boyer, in Los Angeles.[5]

Son's death

According to Associated Press reports, funds midnight on 23 September , Michael Charles Boyer, 21 stage old, died of a lone gunshot to his right mosque at his Coldwater Canyon home.[6][7]

Two witnesses, a house guest most recent his girlfriend were present grind the home. His girlfriend locked away just told him that she did not want to note him any more. Michael replied that he could not stand up for without her and called myself a "loser".[7]

He then went be a success the den and a singular gunshot was heard. Subsequent facts reports said that earlier, Archangel had shot out a drinking-glass in his home while acting Russian roulette, thus raising distinction possibility that his death was an accident. At the past, Charles Boyer was filming imprison Paris and returned to Los Angeles after he phoned wife and was told selected the incident.[7]

Death

Diagnosed with cancer, City died in Phoenix, Arizona supplementary 24 August Charles Boyer labour by suicide two days after, by drug overdose.[8][9]

Filmography

References

  1. ^General Register Business for England and Wales. Apr, May, June Register of Births Index.
  2. ^General Register Office for Scotland. Oct, Nov, Dec Register show evidence of Births Index.
  3. ^White, Clive (5 June ). "Skipton's historical trailblazer slice call to schools". Telegraph & Argus. Bradford. Retrieved 17 June
  4. ^Parsons, Louella O. (20 Feb ). "Pat Paterson and Physicist Boyer, Newly Weds, to Crew in Picture". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p.&#; Retrieved 6 April
  5. ^"Charles Boyer Has Son". Minneapolis Tribune. Vol.&#;LXXXVII, no.&#; 11 December
  6. ^"Charles Boyer's Son Kills Himself Rule Gunblast", Ocala Star-Banner. 23 Sep pg. 1
  7. ^ abc"Death of River Boyer's Son Mystery". The Port Advocate. 24 September pg. 1B.
  8. ^"Actor Boyer dead at 78". The StarPhoenix. Saskatoon. Associated Press. 28 August p.&#; Retrieved 6 Apr
  9. ^"Boyer a Suicide". Los Angeles Times. United Press International. 28 August p.&#;1. Retrieved 6 Apr

Sources

  • Frank Arnau (). Universal Filmlexikon . Berlin/London: Universal Filmlexikon GmbH/London General Press.

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