Elizabeth Patterson
Acting
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mary Elizabeth Patterson (November 22, 1874 – January 31, 1966) was an American theatre, film, and television character actress who gained popular recognition late in her career playing the elderly neighbor Matilda Trumbull on the television comedy series I Love Lucy. In 1926, at the age of 51, Patterson was cast in her first movie, a silent film, The Boy Friend. Transitioning successfully into the era of "talkies", she remained a very busy actress in Hollywood throughout the 1930s, averaging more than five films a year during that decade, usually in supporting roles. A few of her screen credits at that time include Tarnished Lady; Husband's Holiday; A Bill of Divorcement; So Big!; The Story of Temple Drake; Hold Your Man; Dinner at Eight; High, Wide, and Handsome; and No Man of Her Own. She also appeared in the role of Susan in two adaptations of John Willard's popular play The Cat and the Canary: The Cat Creeps in 1930 and The Cat and the Canary in 1939. Patterson continued to perform frequently in the 1940s, when she was cast in more than 30 additional films. Among her notable roles is her 1949 portrayal of the heroic character Eunice Habersham in the groundbreaking racial crime drama Intruder in the Dust, a film based on the William Faulkner novel of the same name and set in the Deep South. Although she would appear in a few more feature films in the 1950s, such as Washington Story and Pal Joey, Patterson by then began to focus her work increasingly on roles in the rapidly expanding medium of television. In 1952, at the age of 77, Patterson made her first appearance on the hit CBS-TV sitcom I Love Lucy in the episode "The Marriage License". Her character on I Love Lucy proved to be so popular among viewers, as well as useful to the writers of the series, that she continued in the role for three more years, often serving in episode storylines as a convenient babysitter for "Little Ricky". Prior to, during, and after her work on I Love Lucy, Patterson appeared in many other American television series during the 1950s and early 1960s. Her first credited performance on the "small screen" was in March 1950 in "The Walking Stick", a teleplay on the NBC anthology series The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre. During the 11 years after that initial televised performance to her final role on television in 1961, she portrayed characters in a variety of other series, including Pulitzer Prize Playhouse, Studio One in Hollywood, General Electric Theater, Stage 7, Lux Video Theatre, Crossroads, The Star and the Story, The Adventures of Jim Bowie, Adventures of Superman, New York Confidential, 77 Sunset Strip, Johnny Stacatto, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Playhouse 90, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, and The New Breed. Patterson, who never married, lived at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel during her 35-year film and television career.. On January 31, 1966, she died at age 91 in Los Angeles of complications from pneumonia. Her gravesite is in Savannah Cemetery in her hometown in Tennessee.
The Oregon Trail
Maria Cooper
Portrait of a Murderer
Mrs. Finch
Pal Joey
Mrs. Casey
The Ninth Day
Rendezvous in Black
Mrs. Middleton
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Aunt Polly
Las Vegas Shakedown
Mary Raff
Three Lives
Mrs. Adams
Washington Story
Miss Dee
Little Women: Jo's Story
Aunt March
Little Women: Meg's Story
Aunt March
Katie Did It
Aunt Priscilla Wakely
Bright Leaf
Tabitha Singleton
Intruder in the Dust
Miss Eunice Habersham
Song of Surrender
Mrs. Beecham
Little Women
Hannah
Miss Tatlock's Millions
Cora
Welcome Stranger
Mrs. Gilley
Out of the Blue
Miss Spring
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
Catherine Dennison
The Secret Heart
Mrs. Stover
I've Always Loved You
Mrs. Sompter
Colonel Effingham's Raid
Cousin Emma
Lady on a Train
Aunt Charlotte Waring
Together Again
Jessie
Hail the Conquering Hero
Martha - Libby's Aunt
Follow the Boys
Annie
The Sky's the Limit
Mrs. Fisher
I Married a Witch
Margaret
Lucky Legs
Annabelle Dinwiddie
My Sister Eileen
Grandma Sherwood
Her Cardboard Lover
Eva
Beyond the Blue Horizon
Mrs. Daly
Almost Married
Aunt Matilda Manning
The Vanishing Virginian
Grandma
Belle Starr
Sarah
Kiss the Boys Goodbye
Aunt Lily Lou Bethany
Tobacco Road
Ada Lester
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Aunt Olivia
Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
Maggie Ambler
Anne of Windy Poplars
Rebecca
Earthbound
Becky Tilden
Adventure in Diamonds
Nellie
Remember the Night
Aunt Emma "Emmie"
Bad Little Angel
Mrs. Perkins
The Cat and the Canary
Aunt Susan
Our Leading Citizen
Aunt Tillie
Bulldog Drummond's Bride
Aunt Blanche
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Mrs. MacGregor
Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police
Aunt Blanche
Sons of the Legion
Grandmother Lee
Sing, You Sinners
Mrs. Daisy Beebe aka Mother Beebe
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
Aunt Hedwige
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
Aunt Blanche
Scandal Street
Ada Smith
Night Club Scandal
Mrs. Elvira Ward
Hold 'Em Navy
Grandma Holland
High, Wide and Handsome
Grandma Cortlandt
Night of Mystery
Mrs. Tobias Greene
Go West Young Man
Aunt Kate Barnaby
Old Hutch
Sarah Hutchins
The Return of Sophie Lang
Araminta Sedley
Small Town Girl
Ma Brannan
Timothy's Quest
Vilda Cummins
Her Master's Voice
Mrs. Ellie Martin
So Red the Rose
Mary Cherry
Men Without Names
Ella Ferris
Chasing Yesterday
Mlle. Prefere
Hide-Out
'Ma' Miller
Dinner at Eight
Miss Copeland
Doctor Bull
Aunt Patricia Banning
Golden Harvest
Lydia
Secret of the Blue Room
Mary, Cook
Hold Your Man
Miss Tuttle
The Story of Temple Drake
Aunt Jennie
Infernal Machine
Elinor's Aunt
They Just Had to Get Married
Lizzie
No Man of Her Own
Mrs. Randall
Boo
Susan (edited from "The Cat Creeps")
They Call It Sin
Mrs. Cullen
Breach of Promise
Cora Pugmire
A Bill of Divorcement
Aunt Hester Fairfield
Life Begins
Mrs. Tubby (uncredited)
Love Me Tonight
First Aunt
Guilty as Hell
Elvira Ward
New Morals for Old
Aunty Doe
Miss Pinkerton
Juliet Mitchell
So Big!
Mrs. Tebbit (uncredited)
Man Wanted
Miss Harper
The Expert
Miss Crackenwald
Husband's Holiday
Mrs. Caroline Reid
Heaven on Earth
Vergie
Penrod and Sam
Schoolteacher (uncredited)
The Smiling Lieutenant
Baroness Von Schwedel (uncredited)
Daddy Long Legs
Mrs. Lippett
Tarnished Lady
Mrs. Courtney
The Cat Creeps
Susan
The Big Party
Mrs. Goldfarb
Harmony at Home
Emma Haller
The Lone Star Ranger
Sarah Martin
South Sea Rose
Sarah
Words and Music
Dean Crockett
The Dancing Town
Ma Pepperall
The Return of Peter Grimm
Mrs. Bartholomey
The Boy Friend
Mrs. Harper