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Pat Paterson
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Pat Paterson
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1910-04-10,Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
Gender
Female
Biography
Pat Paterson (10 April 1910 – 24 August 1978) was an English film actress. Although she made more than 20 films, she is best known as the wife of actor Charles Boyer. The couple's only child, Michael, died by self-inflicted gunshot at the age of 21. In 1928, although aged only 18 (the legal age of adulthood in the UK at that time was 21) she persuaded her parents to allow her to leave for Hollywood. She arrived in 1929 and was signed by Fox Studios as a contract player and immediately began to obtain film roles. She was renamed Patricia (almost immediately shortened to Pat) Paterson, as the Pat-Paterson sound had an ear-catching alliterative rhythm. From 1930-34 she appeared in many studio pictures, in roles of increasing prominence. In the 1935 20th Century Fox film Charlie Chan Goes To Egypt, starring Warner Oland as Chan, she played the female lead, Carol Arnold. This was intended by the studio to serve as her break-out role for leading parts. In early 1934, as production on Charlie Chan Goes To Egypt was wrapping, Maurice Chevalier persuaded his lifelong best friend, fellow French actor Charles Boyer, to attend a Fox Studios post-New Year dinner party at which Pat Paterson was a guest. In interviews over the years, Boyer declared their meeting to have been a case of love at first sight. They married within four weeks of the party, on St. Valentine's Day, 14 February 1934, in Yuma, Arizona. Boyer was quoted in the American news media as claiming his wife would be relinquishing her career, as he felt married women should not work but devote their time and attention to bringing up their children. However, Paterson continued to work. Indeed, arguably her greatest commercial successes came in the five years immediately following her marriage to Boyer. She continued to appear in at least one film per year until the outbreak of World War II in 1939, when she, her husband and Maurice Chevalier, as Europeans, devoted themselves to supporting the war effort of Britain and France. It was the war which effectively brought an end to her film career. On 9 December 1943, two years after her husband Charles became an American citizen, she gave birth to their only child, Michael Charles Boyer, in Los Angeles, California.

Filmography

Charlie Chan in Egypt

6.922

Charlie Chan in Egypt
1935-06-04

Murder on the Second Floor

10

Murder on the Second Floor
1932-03-04

10

Love Time
1934-11-03

5.2

Bottoms Up
1934-04-12

6

Spendthrift
1936-07-22

Idiot's Delight

6.118

Idiot's Delight
1939-01-27

0

Night Shadows
1931-10-08

9

Here's George
1932-09-20

The Bermondsey Kid

9

The Bermondsey Kid
1933-11-01

The Medicine Man

10

The Medicine Man
1933-01-01

7

Bitter Sweet
1933-08-21

8

Call It Luck
1934-07-09

The Lottery Lover

4.333

The Lottery Lover
1935-02-05

The Great Gay Road

10

The Great Gay Road
1931-10-21

Partners Please

10

Partners Please
1932-03-31

The Right to Live

8

The Right to Live
1933-01-01

8

Lord Babs
1932-02-01

Hollywood Goes to Town

7

Hollywood Goes to Town
1938-07-07

7

52nd Street
1937-11-19