{{Unreliable sources|date=August 2024}} {{Use American English|date=September 2022}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2022}} {{Short description|American actress and producer (1911–1980)}} {{Infobox person | image = Gail-Patrick-1942.jpg | caption = 1942 studio publicity photograph | name = Gail Patrick | birth_name = Margaret LaVelle Fitzpatrick | birth_date = {{Birth date|1911|6|20}} | birth_place = Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1980|7|6|1911|6|20}} | death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | other_names = {{Plainlist| * Gail Patrick Jackson * Gail Patrick Velde }} | occupation = Actress, producer | alma_mater = Howard College | years_active = 1932–1973 | political_party = | spouse = {{Plainlist| * {{marriage|Robert Howard Cobb|1936|1941|end=divorce}} * {{marriage|Arnold Dean White|1944|1946|end=divorce}} * {{marriage|Thomas Cornwell Jackson|1947|1969|end=divorce}} * {{marriage|John E. Velde Jr.|1974}} }} | children = 2 }}
'''Gail Patrick''' (born '''Margaret LaVelle Fitzpatrick'''; June 20, 1911 – July 6, 1980) was an American film actress and television producer. Often cast as the bad girl or the other woman, she appeared in more than 60 feature films between 1932 and 1948, notably ''My Man Godfrey'' (1936), ''Stage Door'' (1937), and ''My Favorite Wife'' (1940).
After retiring from acting, she became, as Gail Patrick Jackson, president of Paisano Productions and executive producer of the ''Perry Mason'' television series (1957–1966). She was one of the first female producers, and the only female executive producer in prime time during the nine years ''Perry Mason'' was on the air. She served two terms (1960–1962) as vice president of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and as president of its Hollywood chapter—the first woman to serve in a leadership capacity in the academy, and its only female leader until 1983.
==Career== Gail Patrick was born Margaret LaVelle Fitzpatrick on June 20, 1911, in Birmingham, Alabama.<ref name="Bawden FIR"/>{{Rp|286}} After graduating from Howard College, she remained as acting dean of women.<ref name="Katz">{{cite book|last=Katz|first=Ephraim |author-link=Ephraim Katz|title=The Film Encyclopedia|publisher=HarperPerennial|location=New York|year=1998|edition=3rd|page=1070 |isbn=0-06-273492-X}}</ref> She completed two years of law school at the University of Alabama<ref>{{cite news |last=Shearer |first=Lloyd |author-link=Lloyd Shearer |date=April 26, 1959|title=Gail Patrick, Happiest Woman in Three Worlds |work=Parade}}</ref> and aspired to be the state's governor.<ref>{{cite news |last=Sampas |first=Charles G. |date=March 7, 1938|title=N.Y. – Hollywood |newspaper=The Lowell Sun}}</ref> In 1932, "for a lark", she entered a Paramount Pictures beauty and talent contest, and won train fare to Hollywood for herself and her brother. Although she did not win the contest (for "Miss Panther Woman" in ''Island of Lost Souls'' starring Charles Laughton and Bela Lugosi, 1932), Patrick was offered a standard contract.<ref name="Bawden FIR"/>{{Rp|286}}
She visited the studio officials by herself and asked to negotiate. She said that she must have $75 a week instead of the customary $50 and that she would not accept the standard 12-week layoff provision. "I also read the fine print and blacked out the clause saying I had to do cheesecake stills", Patrick recalled in a 1979 interview. "In the back of my mind I had this idea I could never go home to practice law if such stills were floating around".<ref name="Bawden FIR"/>{{Rp|286}}
Her physical attractiveness helped her win top billing occasionally, as in ''King of Alcatraz'' (1938) and ''Disbarred'' (1939), both directed by Robert Florey—but she most often played romantic rivals.<ref name="Katz"/> She appeared in more than 60 movies between 1932 and 1948. Some of these roles include Carole Lombard's spoiled sister in ''My Man Godfrey'' (1936), Ginger Rogers's rival in ''Stage Door'' (1937), and Anna May Wong's competitor in ''Dangerous to Know'' (1938). Patrick played Cary Grant's second wife in ''My Favorite Wife'' (1940), with Irene Dunne,<ref name="AFI"/> and helped Leo McCarey write the judge's lines in the second courtroom scene.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bogdanovich |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Bogdanovich |date=1997 |title=Who the Devil Made It |location=New York |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |page=419 |isbn=978-0679447061 }}</ref> Film scholar Maria DiBattista called her "the underrated Gail Patrick, who excelled in feckless or selfish or simply second-best brunettes".<ref name="Fast Talking">{{cite book |last=DiBattista |first=Maria |date=2001 |title=Fast-Talking Dames |url=https://archive.org/details/fasttalkingdames0000diba |url-access=registration |location=New Haven, Connecticut |publisher=Yale University Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/fasttalkingdames0000diba/page/121 121] |isbn=978-0300099034 }}</ref>
Patrick attributed her screen success to an accident of timing. When she arrived in Hollywood, the movie studios then wanted hussies, and they felt she looked like one. "I never thought I had much to do with it", Patrick recalled. "Somebody made me up, somebody did my hair, somebody told me what to say and do, and somebody took the picture".<ref name="LAT Woman of the Year">{{cite news |last=Sherman |first=Gene |date=December 26, 1961 |title=Woman of the Year Profile: Gail Patrick Jackson Has Case for Brains, Beauty |newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>
Patrick was so uncomfortable in front of the camera that she made it a point to never see her films. In 1979, she screened a print of ''My Man Godfrey'' given to her by a friend, and she watched herself on screen for the first time. "My fright emerged as haughtiness and I can see where I got my image as a snob, a meanie", Patrick said.<ref name="Bawden FIR"/>{{Rp|291}} She said director Gregory La Cava told her she should suck on lemons and beat up little children to prepare for the role of Cornelia Bullock. La Cava borrowed Patrick from Paramount again for his next film, ''Stage Door''. "I was never nastier", she said.<ref name="Bawden FIR"/>{{Rp|287}}
===Later career=== right|thumb|upright|Gail Patrick in 1961 As demand for her type of character waned, Patrick left the screen. "When people ask why I left I explain I did not have the soul of an actress", Patrick said. "Mine had dollar signs on it".<ref name="Bawden FIR"/>{{Rp|290–291}}
During the summer of 1951, Patrick hosted ''Home Plate'', a postgame interview show at Gilmore Field that immediately followed television broadcasts of the Hollywood Stars home games on KTTV.<ref name="Home Plate 1">{{cite news |last=Vernon |first=Terry |date=May 2, 1951 |title=Tele-Vues |newspaper=The Independent |location=Long Beach, California }}</ref><ref name="Home Plate 2">{{cite news |last=Hopper |first=Hedda |author-link=Hedda Hopper |date=September 6, 1951 |title=Hedda Hopper's Hollywood |newspaper=Berkeley Daily Gazette |quote=Gail loves her TV show which goes on after the Hollywood Stars baseball games. She's turned down 16 offers for other shows.}}</ref> She and her third husband, Cornwell Jackson, adopted a daughter in 1952,<ref>{{cite news |title=Gail Patrick, Mate Adopt Child Here |newspaper=Long Beach Press-Telegram |date=November 3, 1952 }}</ref> and a son in 1954.<ref name="Bawden FIR"/>{{Rp|290}}<ref>{{cite journal|last=Balling|first=Fredda|date=March 1961|title=Perry Mason's Secret Ingredient|url=https://archive.org/stream/radiotvmirr00ma#page/n217/mode/1up|journal=TV Radio Mirror|publisher=Macfadden Publications, Inc.|volume=55|issue=4|pages=24–25, 75–76|access-date=April 15, 2015}}</ref>{{Rp|75}}
Cornwell Jackson was the literary agent for attorney-author Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of the fictional criminal defense attorney Perry Mason. After a series of disappointing Warner Bros. films and a radio series he despised, Gardner had refused to license the character for any more adaptations, but Patrick won the author's trust. She had maintained her network in show business and shared Gardner's love for the law. Patrick, Jackson, and Gardner formed a production company, Paisano Productions, of which she was president. Patrick developed the television series ''Perry Mason'' and sold it to CBS, where it ran for nine seasons (1957–66) and earned the first Silver Gavel Award presented for television drama by the American Bar Association.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/images/public_education/silver-gavel-awards-50-years.pdf |title=Celebrating 50 Years of Gavel Awards |publisher=American Bar Association |access-date=July 7, 2015 |quote=Back in 1960, ''Perry Mason'' earns the first Silver Gavel in this category—star Raymond Burr accepts the award from ABA President John Randall for lawyer-turned-writer Erle Stanley Gardner's Paisano Productions. |archive-date=July 14, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150714153914/http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/images/public_education/silver-gavel-awards-50-years.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> Gail Patrick Jackson was its executive producer.<ref>{{cite news|last=Gould|first=Jack|author-link=Jack Gould|date=May 23, 1966|title=TV: Perry Mason's End Really a Rich Beginning|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> She was one of the first women producers.<ref>{{cite news |last=Miller |first=Laura |date=July 7, 1980 |title=Gail Patrick, Actress-Producer, Dies |newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>
Longtime CBS executive Anne Nelson, who handled contract negotiation and other business affairs for CBS, called Patrick "my adversary in business, but my friend in life". In a 2008 interview, Nelson reported that Patrick was the only female executive producer in prime time during the years ''Perry Mason'' was on the air. "Women today won't believe that things were that tough", Nelson said, "but Gail was alone in her bailiwick, and I was the only female executive not in personnel at CBS at the time". Nelson said that years later, Patrick told her she had written up the contract herself, and that it was so wild and favorable to Paisano Productions that she had no idea CBS would accept it. "But we bought it", Nelson said. "And it has been a very big financial success, not only for CBS, but [also] for the Paisano partners over this many years".<ref>{{cite AV media |people=Nelson, Anne Roberts |year=2008 |title=Perry Mason: 50th Anniversary Edition |medium=DVD, disc 4, chapter 17 |chapter=Interview with Anne Nelson |publisher=Paramount Home Entertainment |asin=B0012EM5F6 }}</ref>
Patrick also developed a half-hour Paisano Productions series based on Gardner's Cool and Lam stories.<ref name="TCOT Businesslike Beauty">{{cite journal|date=June 21, 1958|title=The Case of the Businesslike Beauty|journal=TV Guide|pages=17–19 }}</ref>{{Rp|19}} A pilot directed by Jacques Tourneur aired on CBS in 1958, but a series did not materialize.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thrillingdetective.com/cool_lam.html|title=Bertha Cool and Donald Lam|last=Smith|first=Kevin Burton|website=The Thrilling Detective|access-date=May 8, 2015 }}</ref>
Patrick served two terms (1960–62) as vice president of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and as president of its Hollywood chapter.<ref name="Christmas Seals Appt">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Gail Patrick Jackson Heads 1970 Christmas Seal Program |newspaper=Bennington Banner |date=November 5, 1970 }}</ref><ref name="DZ 1962"/> She was the first woman to serve in a leadership capacity in the academy, and its only female leader until 1983.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.emmys.com/academy/about/history |title=History of the Television Academy |date=August 12, 2013 |publisher=Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |access-date=July 6, 2015 |quote=Jolting the Television Academy's profile in 1983, actress Diana Muldaur became the organization's second female leader; actress Gail Patrick Jackson ... had been the first. 'It was a boys' club,' said Muldaur.}}</ref>
==Personal life== Her home, a gated estate of nearly seven acres on La Brea Terrace in Los Angeles,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-helen-mirren-rental-20140716-story.html |title=Helen Mirren's Hollywood rental has a star past of its own|last=Leitereg|first=Neal J.|date=July 17, 2014|website=Los Angeles Times|access-date=July 21, 2015}}</ref> was occasionally a shooting location for ''Perry Mason'', beginning with the third season.<ref name="Davidson">{{cite book|last=Davidson|first=Jim|year=2014|chapter=The First TV Series (1957–1966)|title=The Perry Mason Book: A Comprehensive Guide to America's Favorite Defender of Justice|type=e-book|asin=B00OOELV1K}}</ref>{{Rp|34360}} The mansion was built in 1911 for Dustin Farnum.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/07/rent_helen_mirrens_lushlylandscaped_hills_villa_for_35k.php#more |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826204907/http://la.curbed.com/2014/7/18/10070824/rent-helen-mirrens-lushlylandscaped-hills-villa-for-35k#more |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 26, 2016 |title=Rent Helen Mirren's Lushly-Landscaped Hills Villa for $35k |last=Barragan |first=Bianca |date=July 18, 2014 |website=Curbed Los Angeles |access-date=June 26, 2015}}</ref> Patrick purchased it from the estate of writer-producer Mark Hellinger after his death in December 1947.<ref>{{cite book |last=Lamparski |first=Richard |date=1974 |title=Whatever Became of … ? Fifth Series |location=New York |publisher=Crown Publishers |page=[https://archive.org/details/whateverbecameof0000lamp_a2f0/page/79 79] |isbn=0-517-51685-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/whateverbecameof0000lamp_a2f0/page/79 }}</ref>
===Marriages and children=== thumb|upright|Gail Patrick with her first husband Robert H. Cobb (1937) On December 17, 1936, Patrick married restaurateur Robert H. Cobb, owner of the Brown Derby<ref name="UPI Cobb Divorce"/> and principal owner of the Hollywood Stars baseball team.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Gail Patrick is Baseball's Prettiest Boss |newspaper=Oakland Tribune |date=July 14, 1940}}</ref> An ardent baseball fan, she was called "Ma Patrick"<ref name="LAT Woman of the Year"/> and threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the team's new Gilmore Field on May 2, 1939.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hudson |first=Maryann |date=October 19, 1990 |title=It Was Much More Than Minor Pastime |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-10-19-sp-2713-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=July 22, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Pool |first=Bob |date=September 5, 1997 |title=Extra Innings: Nostalgic Fans to Honor Minor League Field That Is Now Site of TV Studio|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-05-me-29025-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=July 22, 2015 }}</ref> To Hollywood's surprise,<ref>{{cite news |author=International News Service |author-link=International News Service |title=Gail Patrick Asks Divorce |newspaper=Boone News-Republican |date=October 29, 1940 |quote=A divorce complaint that took Hollywood by surprise was on file in superior court today.}}</ref> the Cobbs separated in October 1940<ref name="UPI Cobb Divorce">{{cite news |author=United Press |author-link=United Press International |title=Gail Patrick to Ask Divorce|newspaper=Wisconsin State Journal|date=October 29, 1940}}</ref> and were divorced in November 1941.<ref>{{cite news |author=United Press|title=Gail Patrick Granted Final Divorce Decree|newspaper=McAllen Daily Press |location=McAllen, Texas|date=November 24, 1941}}</ref>
Patrick's patriotic service during World War II included four tours of Canada promoting Victory Loans, making her the only film star to visit the entire nation from coast to coast.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Gail Patrick, Screen Star Booster of Victory Loan, Given Ovation Here |newspaper=The Lethbridge Herald |date=October 30, 1944 }}</ref> On her return from a war bond tour, she met Lieutenant Arnold Dean White, a pilot in the U.S. Navy Naval Air Transport Service; they married on July 11, 1944.<ref>{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |title=Gail Patrick weds naval officer at Jacksonville|newspaper=Lincoln Journal|date=July 12, 1944}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Gail Patrick Honeymoons at the Beach |newspaper=The Miami News |date=July 17, 1944 }}</ref> In June 1945, she gave premature birth to twins who soon died.<ref name="Bawden FIR"/>{{Rp|290}}<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Gail Patrick Loses Twins at Birth |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=June 9, 1945 }}</ref><ref name="White Divorce"/> She became diabetic and had to take insulin the rest of her life.<ref name="Bawden FIR"/>{{Rp|290}} She and White divorced in March 1946.<ref name="White Divorce">{{cite news |author=United Press|title=Gail Patrick Files Suit for Divorce|newspaper=Corpus Christi Times|date=February 16, 1946}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Arnold White Divorced by Gail Patrick |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=March 26, 1946 }}</ref>
In July 1947, Patrick married her third husband, Thomas Cornwell Jackson, head of the Los Angeles office of the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency.<ref>{{cite news |last=Associated Press |date=July 26, 1947 |title=Gail Patrick Bride on Coast |newspaper=The New York Times }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=A Woman is the Driving Force Behind 'Perry Mason' |newspaper=Las Vegas Sun |date=April 25, 1965 }}</ref> She created a business designing clothing for children, and moved to a shop on Rodeo Drive<ref name="Bawden FIR"/>{{Rp|290}} that she called the Enchanted Cottage.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hirshberg|first=Jack|date=October 25, 1947|title=Enchanted Cottage: Screen Star Gail Patrick Runs Shop for Tiny Tots in Hollywood|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1215&dat=19471025&id=34EmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hoMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5545,453291&hl=en|newspaper=Montreal Standard|access-date=May 9, 2015}}</ref> Patrick ran the shop for eight years with considerable success.<ref name="TCOT Businesslike Beauty"/>
Patrick divorced Jackson in 1969.<ref name="Bawden FIR"/>{{Rp|290}} They remained partners in Paisano Productions, together with Gardner's widow, daughter, and sister-in-law. When Jackson proposed reviving ''Perry Mason'' for CBS, the Paisano partners voted with him despite Patrick's opposition. She was given the title of executive consultant for the resulting series, ''The New Perry Mason'' (1973–74).<ref name="Davidson 2">{{cite book|last=Davidson|first=Jim|year=2014|chapter=The Second TV Series (1973–1974)|title=The Perry Mason Book: A Comprehensive Guide to America's Favorite Defender of Justice|type=e-book|asin=B00OOELV1K}}</ref>{{Rp|39234}} A failure with critics and in the Nielsen ratings, the series ran only 15 episodes.<ref name="Davidson 2"/>{{Rp|38534}}
In 1974, she married her fourth husband, John E. Velde, Jr.; they were married until her death.<ref name="Bawden FIR"/>{{Rp|291}}
==Death== On July 6, 1980, Patrick died from leukemia at the age of 69 at her Hollywood home.<ref name="NYT Obit">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|title=Gail Patrick, Actress Who Gave Up Movies to Produce TV Series|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 7, 1980}}</ref> She had been treated for the disease for four years,<ref>{{cite news|last=United Press International|author-link=United Press International|date=July 7, 1980|title='Perry Mason' Producer Gail Patrick Dead at 69|newspaper=The Hawk Eye}}</ref> but kept her illness secret from everyone but her husband.<ref name="Bawden FIR"/>{{Rp|290}}
==Awards, honors, and memorials== Patrick was twice named Los Angeles Woman of the Year by the ''Los Angeles Times'', and she received awards from the National Association of Women Lawyers and the City of Hope National Medical Center.<ref name="Christmas Seals Appt"/>
In 1955, Patrick returned to Howard College (now Samford University), her alma mater, for the laying of the cornerstone of its new Edgewood campus. She was presented with a citation for outstanding achievement, "in recognition of achievements in the arts, in service to her fellow man, and devotion to home and family".<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Salute Planned Tomorrow for Women in Advertising |newspaper=The News |location=Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California |date=February 11, 1965 }}</ref> Samford University presents the Gail Patrick Directing Award in her honor.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.samford.edu/news/releases/2000/?id=21474842302 |title=Samford Theatre Presents Alumnus, Student Awards |date=June 6, 2000 |publisher=Samford University |access-date=July 7, 2015}}</ref>
In 1960, Patrick received the Mystery Writers of America's Raven Award for her contributions to the mystery genre as executive producer of ''Perry Mason''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://theedgars.com/awards/ |title=Author's Name–Gail Jackson |date=1960 |website=Edgars Database |publisher=Mystery Writers of America |access-date=July 7, 2015 |archive-date=July 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731232503/http://theedgars.com/awards/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In 1962, Patrick was named the Delta Zeta Woman of the Year. A member of the sorority at Howard College, Patrick was vice president of the first board of directors of the Delta Zeta Foundation.<ref name="DZ 1962">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Delta Zeta Sorority's Woman of the Year |newspaper=Indiana Evening Gazette |date=October 27, 1962 }}</ref> A $1 million bequest from the Gail Patrick Velde Trust established the sorority's Gail Patrick Women of Distinction Program, which provides undergraduate and graduate scholarships and the honorarium awarded to Delta Zeta alumnae designated as woman of the year, the organization's highest honor.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gftpln.org/Article.do?orgId=5535&articleId=20723 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150708151516/http://www.gftpln.org/Article.do?orgId=5535&articleId=20723 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 8, 2015 |title=Gail Patrick Believed Delta Zeta Worthy of Major Bequest |publisher=Delta Zeta |access-date=July 7, 2015 }}</ref>
In 1970, Patrick was appointed national honorary chairman of the American Lung Association's Christmas Seals campaign.<ref name="NYT Obit"/> She accepted the post as "a meaningful way" to pay tribute to her ''Perry Mason'' colleagues who died of respiratory disease associated with tobacco smoking: Ray Collins, who died of emphysema; William Talman, who publicly blamed cigarettes for his lung cancer; and William Hopper, who died from pneumonia following a stroke. "I have a personal share in the untimely loss of my co-workers, for they were my friends, too", Patrick said.<ref>{{cite news |last=Grover |first=Pat Hinton|title=Highlights: The Realms of Entertainment and Other Scopes|newspaper=Altoona Mirror|date=February 15, 1970}}</ref>
In 1973, Patrick became the first national chairman of the American Diabetes Association board of directors. The Gail Patrick Innovation Award is presented by the organization in her honor, to advance research toward the prevention, treatment, and cure of diabetes.<ref name="NYT Obit"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.diabetes.org/research-and-practice/we-are-research-leaders/research-excellence-honorees.html |title=Research Excellence Honorees – The Gail Patrick Innovation Award |publisher=American Diabetes Association |access-date=July 6, 2015 |archive-date=July 1, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701054112/http://www.diabetes.org/research-and-practice/we-are-research-leaders/research-excellence-honorees.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
The Gail Patrick Stage is a film soundstage that opened in 2008 at Columbia College Hollywood.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Columbia College Hollywood Starts New Entertainment Business Curriculum |url=http://tolucantimes.info/special_issues/back-to-school-education-issue/columbia-college-hollywood-starts-new-entertainment-business-curriculum/ |newspaper=Tolucan Times |date=September 22, 2010 |access-date=July 6, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.columbiacollege.edu/about/campus-overview |title=Campus Overview |publisher=Columbia College Hollywood |access-date=July 6, 2015 |quote=The Gail Patrick Stage is used both as a location for students to shoot their projects and also for classroom instruction.}}</ref> Patrick was a member of the film school's board of trustees and funded the facility through her estate.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.filmschool.org/threads/columbia-college-hollywood-best-place-for-learning-film-making.6618/ |title=Columbia College Hollywood Best Place For Learning Film Making |date=April 14, 2011 |publisher=Filmschool.org |access-date=July 6, 2015}}</ref>
==Filmography== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- | 1932 | ''If I Had a Million'' | Secretary | Film debut<ref name="Bawden FIR"/>{{Rp|291}}<ref name="AFI">{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/SearchResult.aspx?s=&retailCheck=&Type=PN&CatID=DATABIN_CAST&ID=57018&AN_ID=&searchedFor=Gail_Patrick_ |title=Gail Patrick |publisher=AFI Catalog of Feature Films |access-date=April 10, 2015}}</ref> |- | rowspan=7 | 1933 | ''{{sortname|The|Mysterious Rider|The Mysterious Rider (1933 film)}}'' | Mary Benton Foster | <ref name="Bawden FIR"/>{{Rp|291}}<ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''Pick-Up'' | Unbilled bit part | <ref name="Bawden FIR">{{cite journal |last=Bawden |first=James |date=May 1981 |title=Gail Patrick |journal=Films in Review |publisher=National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, Inc. |volume=32 |issue=5 |pages=286–294 }}</ref>{{Rp|291}} |- | ''Mama Loves Papa'' | Unbilled bit part | <ref name="Bawden FIR"/>{{Rp|291}} |- | ''Murders in the Zoo'' | Jerry Evans | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''{{sortname|The|Phantom Broadcast|}}'' | Laura Hamilton | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''To the Last Man'' | Ann Hayden Stanley | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''Cradle Song'' | Maria Lucia | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | rowspan=6 | 1934 | ''Death Takes a Holiday'' | Rhoda Fenton | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''{{sortname|The|Crime of Helen Stanley}}'' | Helen Stanley | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''Murder at the Vanities'' | Sadie Evans | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''Take the Stand'' | Cornelia Burbank | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''Wagon Wheels'' | Nancy Wellington | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''One Hour Late'' | Mrs. Eileen Barclay | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | rowspan=9 | 1935 | ''Rumba'' | Patsy | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''Mississippi'' | Elvira Rumford | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''Doubting Thomas'' | Florence McCrickett | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''No More Ladies'' | Theresa German | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''Smart Girl'' | Kay Reynolds | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''{{sortname|The|Big Broadcast of 1936}}'' | Nurse | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''Wanderer of the Wasteland'' | Ruth Virey | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''Two-Fisted'' | Sue Parker | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''{{sortname|The|Lone Wolf Returns|The Lone Wolf Returns (1935 film)}}'' | Marcia Stewart | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | rowspan=6 | 1936 | ''Two in the Dark'' | Irene Lassiter | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''{{sortname|The|Preview Murder Mystery}}'' | Claire Woodward | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''Early to Bed'' | Grace Stanton | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''My Man Godfrey'' | Cornelia Bullock | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''Murder with Pictures'' | Meg Archer | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''White Hunter'' | Helen Varek | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | rowspan=4 | 1937 | ''John Meade's Woman'' | Caroline Haig | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''Her Husband Lies'' | Natalie Thomas | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''Artists and Models'' | Helen Varek | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''Stage Door'' | Linda Shaw | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | rowspan=4 | 1938 | ''Mad About Music'' | Gwen Taylor | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''Dangerous to Know'' | Margaret Van Case | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''Wives Under Suspicion'' | Lucy Stowell | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''King of Alcatraz'' | Dale Borden | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | rowspan=5 | 1939 | ''Disbarred'' | Joan Carroll | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''Man of Conquest'' | Margaret Lea | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''Grand Jury Secrets'' | Agnes Carren | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''Reno'' | Jessie Gibbs | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''{{sortname|The|Hunchback of Notre Dame|the Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939 film)}}'' | minor role | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | rowspan=3 | 1940 | ''{{sortname|The|Doctor Takes a Wife}}'' | Marilyn Thomas | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''My Favorite Wife'' | Bianca Bates | <ref name="AFI"/><ref name="Fast Talking"/> |- | ''Gallant Sons'' | Clare Pendleton | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | rowspan=2 | 1941 | ''Kathleen'' | Lorraine Bennett | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''Love Crazy'' | Isobel Grayson | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | rowspan=2 | 1942 | ''Tales of Manhattan'' | Ellen | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''We Were Dancing'' | Linda Wayne | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | rowspan=2 | 1943 | ''Quiet Please, Murder'' | Myra Blandy | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''Hit Parade of 1943'' | Toni Jarrett | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | rowspan=2 | 1944 | ''Women in Bondage'' | Margot Bracken | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''Up in Mabel's Room'' | Mabel Essington | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | rowspan=2 | 1945 | ''Brewster's Millions'' | Barbara Drew | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''Twice Blessed'' | Mary Hale | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | rowspan=5 | 1946 | ''{{sortname|The|Madonna's Secret}}'' | Ella Randolph | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''Rendezvous with Annie'' | Dolores Starr | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''Claudia and David'' | Julia Naughton | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''Plainsman and the Lady'' | Cathy Arnesen | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''Unusual Occupations'' | Herself | "Film Tot Fairyland"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shieldspictures.com/unusualoccupatio.html |title=Unusual Occupations |publisher=Shields Pictures Inc. |access-date=May 8, 2015}}</ref> |- | rowspan=2 | 1947 | ''Calendar Girl'' | Olivia Radford | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''King of the Wild Horses'' | Ellen Taggert | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | rowspan=2 | 1948 | ''{{sortname|The|Inside Story|The Inside Story (film)}}'' | Audrey O'Connor | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | ''Inner Sanctum'' | Murdered wife | |- | 1951 | ''Home Plate'' | Host | Post-game interview show following KTTV broadcasts of Hollywood Stars baseball games at Gilmore Field, with sportswriter Braven Dyer<ref name="Home Plate 1"/><ref name="Home Plate 2"/> |- | 1957–1966 | ''Perry Mason'' | | TV series, Executive producer<ref name="CTVA Home">{{cite web|url=http://ctva.biz/US/Legal/PerryMason_1957-66.htm |title=Perry Mason 1957–66 |publisher=The Classic TV Archive |access-date=April 7, 2015}}</ref> |- | 1973–1974 | ''{{sortname|The|New Perry Mason}}'' | | TV series, Executive consultant<ref name="Davidson 2"/>{{Rp|39234}} |}
==Radio credits== [[Image:Dinah-Shore-Gail-Patrick-CBS-1945.jpg|right|thumb|Dinah Shore and Patrick in the CBS Radio studio at a rehearsal for ''The Screen Guild Theater'' (1945)]] {| class="wikitable" |- ! Date ! Title ! Notes |- | May 27, 1937 | ''Kraft Music Hall'' | <ref name="Goldin Kraft">{{cite web |url=https://radiogoldin.library.umkc.edu/Home/RadioGoldin_Records?searchString=The%20Kraft%20Music%20Hall&type=Programs |title=Kraft Music Hall |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=June 27, 2015 |archive-date=July 1, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701001631/http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=The+Kraft+Music+Hall |url-status=live }}</ref> |- | August 16, 1937 | ''1937 Shakespeare Festival'' | "As You Like It"<ref name="Goldin Shakespeare">{{cite web |url=https://radiogoldin.library.umkc.edu/Home/RadioGoldin_Records?searchString=1937%20Shakespeare%20Festival&type=Programs |title=1937 Shakespeare Festival |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=June 27, 2015 |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402141008/http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=1937+Shakespeare+Festival |url-status=live }}</ref> |- | January 24, 1938 | ''Lux Radio Theatre'' | "Clarence"<ref name="Goldin Lux">{{cite web |url=https://radiogoldin.library.umkc.edu/Home/RadioGoldin_Records?searchString=The%20Lux%20Radio%20Theatre&type=Programs |title=The Lux Radio Theatre |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=June 27, 2015 |archive-date=September 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924084141/http://www.radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=The%20Lux%20Radio%20Theatre |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Archive Lux 1938"/> |- | April 18, 1938 | ''Lux Radio Theatre'' | "Mad About Music"<ref name="Goldin Lux"/><ref name="Archive Lux 1938"/> |- | May 9, 1938 | ''Lux Radio Theatre'' | "My Man Godfrey"<ref name="Goldin Lux"/><ref name="Archive Lux 1938">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/Lux03 |title=Lux Radio Theatre 1938 |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=June 27, 2015}}</ref> |- | January 30, 1939 | ''Lux Radio Theatre'' | "The Arkansas Traveler"<ref name="Goldin Lux"/> |- | April 24, 1939 | ''Lux Radio Theatre'' | "Broadway Bill"<ref name="Goldin Lux"/><ref name="Archive Lux 1939">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/Lux04 |title=Lux Radio Theatre 1939 |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=June 27, 2015}}</ref> |- | January 29, 1940 | ''Lux Radio Theatre'' | "Intermezzo"<ref name="Goldin Lux"/> |- | December 9, 1940 | ''Lux Radio Theatre'' | "My Favorite Wife"<ref name="Goldin Lux"/><ref name="Archive Lux 1940">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/Lux05 |title=Lux Radio Theatre 1940 |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=June 27, 2015}}</ref> |- | March 9, 1941 | ''The Free Company'' | "An American Crusader"<ref name="Goldin Free">{{cite web |url=https://radiogoldin.library.umkc.edu/Home/RadioGoldin_Records?searchString=The%20Free%20Company&type=Programs |title=The Free Company |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=June 27, 2015 |archive-date=July 1, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701001646/http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=The+Free+Company |url-status=live }}</ref> |- | April 28, 1941 | ''Lux Radio Theatre'' | "Wife, Husband and Friend"<ref name="Goldin Lux"/><ref name="Archive Lux 1941">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/Lux06 |title=Lux Radio Theatre 1941 |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=June 27, 2015}}</ref> |- | June 19, 1941 | ''Kraft Music Hall'' | <ref name="Goldin Kraft"/> |- | February 23, 1942 | ''Cavalcade of America'' | "Arrowsmith"<ref name="Goldin Cavalcade">{{cite web |url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=The+Cavalcade+of+America |title=The Cavalcade of America |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=June 27, 2015 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304003557/http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=The%20Cavalcade%20of%20America |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Cavalcade_of_America_Singles |title=Cavalcade of America |date=July 30, 2010 |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=June 27, 2015}}</ref> |- | March 23, 1942 | ''Lux Radio Theatre'' | "The Strawberry Blonde"<ref name="Goldin Lux"/> |- | April 10, 1942 | ''Lum and Abner'' | <ref name="Goldin Lum">{{cite web |url=https://radiogoldin.library.umkc.edu/Home/RadioGoldin_Records?searchString=Lum%20and%20Abner&type=Programs |title=Lum and Abner |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=June 27, 2015 |archive-date=July 1, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701001806/http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=Lum+and+Abner |url-status=live }}</ref> |- | February 8, 1943 | ''Lux Radio Theatre'' | "The Maltese Falcon"<ref name="Goldin Lux"/><ref name="Archive Lux 1943">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/Lux08 |title=Lux Radio Theatre 1943 |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=June 27, 2015}}</ref> |- | November 5, 1943 | ''Stage Door Canteen'' | <ref name="Haendiges">{{cite web|url=http://www.otrsite.com/logs/logs1043.htm |title=Stage Door Canteen |publisher=Jerry Haendiges Vintage Radio Logs|access-date=November 26, 2015}}</ref> |- | June 1944 | ''The Dreft Star Playhouse'' | "Marked Woman"<ref name="The Daily Oklahoman">{{cite news |url=https://img.newspapers.com/img/thumbnail/449555118/250/150/4460_2684_1717_1030/0/yes/4788_3148_1061_103.jpg |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Star Playhouse - 9:45 a.m. (advertisement) |page=15 |newspaper=The Daily Oklahoman |date=June 12, 1944 |access-date=June 18, 2021 }}</ref> |- | July 29, 1944 | ''Visiting Hours'' | <ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Gail Patrick to Aid Broadcast |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19440728&id=p-U-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=E00MAAAAIBAJ&pg=6492,1000576&hl=en |newspaper=The Tuscaloosa News |date=July 28, 1944 |access-date=July 6, 2015 }}</ref> |- | February 4, 1945 | ''The Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre'' | "My Favorite Wife"<ref name="Goldin Lloyd">{{cite web |url=https://radiogoldin.library.umkc.edu/Home/RadioGoldin_Records?searchString=The%20Harold%20Lloyd%20Comedy%20Theatre&type=Programs |title=The Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=June 27, 2015 |archive-date=July 1, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701001629/http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=The+Harold+Lloyd+Comedy+Theatre |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Old_Gold_Comedy_Theater_Singles |title=Old Gold Comedy Theatre |date=June 5, 2012 |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=June 27, 2015}}</ref> |- | February 12, 1945 | ''The Screen Guild Theater'' | "Belle of the Yukon"<ref>{{cite journal|title=Those Were The Days|journal=Nostalgia Digest|date=Spring 2013|volume=39|issue=2|pages=32–39}}</ref><ref name="Goldin Screen Guild">{{cite web |url=https://radiogoldin.library.umkc.edu/Home/RadioGoldin_Records?searchString=The%20Lady%20Esther%20Screen%20Guild%20Theatre&type=Programs |title=The Lady Esther Screen Guild Theatre |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=June 27, 2015 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304192330/http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=The%20Lady%20Esther%20Screen%20Guild%20Theatre |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Archive Screen Guild">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/ScreenGuildTheater |title=Screen Guild Theatre |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=June 27, 2015}}</ref> |- | October 9, 1945 | ''This Is My Best'' | "The Gilded Pheasant"<ref name="Goldin TIMB">{{cite web |url=https://radiogoldin.library.umkc.edu/Home/RadioGoldin_Records?searchString=This%20Is%20My%20Best&type=Programs |title=This Is My Best |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=June 27, 2015 |archive-date=July 1, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701001641/http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=This+Is+My+Best |url-status=live }}</ref> |- | November 12, 1945 | ''The Screen Guild Theater'' | "My Favorite Wife"<ref name="Goldin Screen Guild"/><ref name="Archive Screen Guild"/> |- | November 20, 1945 | ''This Is My Best'' | "This Is Violet"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-This-Is-My-Best.html |title=This Is My Best |publisher=Digital Deli Too |access-date=June 27, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150630171401/http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-This-Is-My-Best.html |archive-date=June 30, 2015 }}</ref> |- | December 16, 1946 | ''Lux Radio Theatre'' | "Killer Cates"<ref name=Spokane>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=INtXAAAAIBAJ&pg=943%2C3983341 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Lux Radio Theatre (advertisement) |page=18 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |date=December 16, 1946 |access-date=June 18, 2021 }}</ref><ref name="Goldin Lux"/><ref name=ndw13>{{cite journal|title=Those Were the Days|journal=Nostalgia Digest|date=Winter 2013|volume=39|issue=1|pages=32–41}}</ref><ref name="Archive Lux 1946">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/Lux11 |title=Lux Radio Theatre 1946 |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=June 27, 2015}}</ref> |- | April 24, 1947 | ''Lum and Abner'' | <ref name="Goldin Lum"/> |- | June 2, 1947 | ''Lux Radio Theatre'' | "The Jazz Singer"<ref name="Goldin Lux"/><ref name="Archive Lux 1947">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/Lux12 |title=Lux Radio Theatre 1947 |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=June 27, 2015}}</ref> |- | 1947 | ''Proudly We Hail'' | <ref name="Goldin Proudly">{{cite web |url=https://radiogoldin.library.umkc.edu/Home/RadioGoldin_Records?searchString=Proudly%20We%20Hail&type=Programs |title=Proudly We Hail |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=June 27, 2015 |archive-date=July 1, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701001639/http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=Proudly+We+Hail |url-status=live }}</ref> |- | February 23, 1948 | ''Lux Radio Theatre'' | "T-Men"<ref name="Toledo">{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yPYjAAAAIBAJ&pg=5319%2C4616328&q=Selections+Dennis+Keefe+Gail+Patrick+Men+TMen |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Monday Selections |page=4 (Peach Section) |newspaper=Toledo Blade (Ohio) |date=February 23, 1948 |access-date=June 18, 2021 }}</ref> |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Portal|Biography}} {{Commons category}} * {{IMDb name|0665850}} * [http://film.virtual-history.com/person.php?personid=1008 Photographs of Gail Patrick]
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