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Dorothy's first husband was Lynn Patrick (February 3, 1912 – January 26, 1980) who became one of the most prominent and successful figures in American [[Ice hockey]]. Her son from this marriage was Lester Lee Patrick (1940–1996). A few years later into her film career she married second husband, noted Beverly Hills dentist-to-the-stars, Sterling Trevling "Doc" Bowen |
Dorothy's first husband was Lynn Patrick (February 3, 1912 – January 26, 1980) who became one of the most prominent and successful figures in American [[Ice hockey]]. Her son from this marriage was Lester Lee Patrick (1940–1996). A few years later into her film career she married second husband, noted Beverly Hills dentist-to-the-stars, Sterling Trevling "Doc" Bowen. Dorothy's marriage to Dr. Bowen produced one son, Sterling Terrence "Terry" Bowen (b.1944). She spent most of her life taking care of her mother Eva Davis as the two were inseparable. |
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Dorothy Patrick is interred at Pierce Brothers Westwood, West Los Angeles, California, along with other notable actors and actresses. She is survived by one son, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. |
Dorothy Patrick is interred at Pierce Brothers Westwood, West Los Angeles, California, along with other notable actors and actresses. She is survived by one son, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. |
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Revision as of 15:47, 28 July 2012
Dorothy Patrick | |
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 from the film Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) | |
| Born | June 3, 1921 |
| Died | May 31, 1987 (aged 65) |
| Years active | 1939–1956 |
| Spouse(s) | Lynn Patrick Sterling Trevling Bowen |
| Children | Lester Lee Patrick (1940–1996) Sterling Terrence Bowen (b.1944) |
Dorothy Patrick, (née Dorothea Davis) (June 3, 1921 – May 31, 1987) was an American film actress and a John Robert Powers model.
Early life
Dorothy Patrick was born in St. Boniface, Manitoba, Canada of Scot-English heritage from a family of farmers, ranchers and Canadian National Railway workers. Thanks to a talented uncle who was a uniform manufacture and tailor to W.W.I Canadian Army officers, she early-on became sensitive to fashion and taste. Having the poise and beauty older than her years, as a teen Dorothy was a photogenic model for young ladies' fashions in Creed's, Hudson's Bay and Sears department store catalogues popular in Canada.
After growing up in Winnipeg, in 1938 at age 17, she and her mother immigrated to the United States. Settling in New York City at tony Tudor City in Manhattan, Patrick became a fashion model with the famous John Robert Powers Agency. She was seen on the runways of the City's haute couture salons and as the wholesome face on popular fashion and entertainment magazines of the day.
Career
During her early career she was billed under her birth name, Dorothea Davis until she married New York Rangers hockey star, Lynn Patrick, and became Dorothy Patrick. Though she had one son in the marriage, the aspiring actress remained career-bound, not ready to co-star as a house-frau.
While appearing at dinner-club showcases in Jersey City, Patrick won Samuel Goldwyn's talent-search contest, MGM's coveted, "Gateway to Hollywood." With a movie contract in hand, she moved to Hollywood with her "back stage mother" and young son to live in Culver City and work at nearby MGM studios. The "Star System" cultivated in the era saw Dorothy training at the studio's repertory workshop along with stars like Judy Garland as one of the students. Dorothy first appeared as a Goldwyn Girl in Danny Kaye's movie Up in Arms (1944). Her most noted MGM appearance was opposite Robert Walker in the Jerome Kern musical showcase and Technicolor dazzler, Till the Clouds Roll By (1946).
As a "Queen of the Bs," she continued to appear in films produced in the 1940s and 1950s including, High Wall (1947) with Robert Taylor; New Orleans (1947) with Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday (the only film-record of Holiday singing); The Mighty McGurk (1947) with Wallace Beery; Follow Me Quietly (1949) with William Lundingan; the Fritz Lang-directed House by the River (1950).
In the early days of Hollywood television, Patrick made guest appearances on the locally-produced TV show, Mike Stokey's Pantomime Quiz. The Korean War-era saw her at celebrity appearances for USO and was Miss Naval Air Force Recruiting 1951. At Columbia, Patrick co-starred with Preston Foster and Wayne Morris in the oil wild-catting yarn, The Big Gusher (1951); in the modern-day western, Outlaw Stallion (1954) opposite Billy Gray with Phil (Philip) Carey. She co-starred or was supporting actress in a series of Republic programmers. The studio was best known releasing Saturday Matinee serials, westerns, mysteries and crime dramas. Her films included the noir classic, 711 Ocean Drive (1950) with Edmond O'Brien, Joanne Dru and Otto Kruger (caps with a slam-bang gun-chase scene at Hoover [Boulder] Dam); the "true life" crime drama, Lonely Hearts Bandits (1950) with John Eldredge; genre westerns, Thunder Pass (1954) with Dane Clark, John Carradine and Andy Devine; "Gringos go south-of-the-border" comedy, Belle of Old Mexico (1950) with Latina comedienne, Estelita Rodriguez, and Robert Rockwell, Florence Bates.
A "trouper" in the world of Hollywood actor-survivors, in her working career Dorothy co-stared or appeared in numerous small, supporting roles on stage, screen and television even including decorative walk-ons in noted productions such as The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) and Singin' in the Rain (1952). Her last movies were in 1955 as Dorothy Davis Patrick at 20th Century Fox: Violent Saturday (1955) as the wife of Victor Mature and View from Pompey's Head (1955) with Richard Egan and Dana Wynter. That same year saw Dorothy take a hiatus from Hollywood to raise her two adolescent sons back East in Short Hills, a New Jersey suburb of New York City. There she was also able to keep abreast of the New York Broadway scene as well as the local "off-Broadway" venue, The Papermill Playhouse in Short Hills. She was then in her third marriage and to former Foote, Cone and Belding Chicago advertising exec and film producer, J. Hugh E. Davis. Returning to Hollywood in 1961 and up for a few parts on television she found her creative niche appearing with the Leonovich Theatre in West Hollywood for several seasons while a Real Estate agent in Beverly Hills. A working, lifelong SAG (Screen Actors Guild) actress, Dorothy appeared in more than 35 motion picture films and television shows.
Personal life
Dorothy's first husband was Lynn Patrick (February 3, 1912 – January 26, 1980) who became one of the most prominent and successful figures in American Ice hockey. Her son from this marriage was Lester Lee Patrick (1940–1996). A few years later into her film career she married second husband, noted Beverly Hills dentist-to-the-stars, Sterling Trevling "Doc" Bowen. Dorothy's marriage to Dr. Bowen produced one son, Sterling Terrence "Terry" Bowen (b.1944). She spent most of her life taking care of her mother Eva Davis as the two were inseparable.
Dorothy Patrick is interred at Pierce Brothers Westwood, West Los Angeles, California, along with other notable actors and actresses. She is survived by one son, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
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