{{short description|American actress (1915–1993)}} {{more citations needed|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Patricia Hohenlohe | birth_name = Patricia Wilder | birth_date = {{Birth date|1913|09|8}} | birth_place = Macon, Georgia, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1995|08|11|1913|09|13}} | death_place = New York City, U.S. | parents = | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Robin Harris|1935||reason=div}} * {{marriage|Albert Cernadas|1941||reason=div}} * {{marriage|Prince Alexander zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst|21 May 1951|1984|reason=died}} }} | relations = }}
'''Patricia Anne zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst''' (''née'' '''Patricia Wilder''') (September 8, 1913 – August 11, 1995) was an American film actress of the late 1930s.
==Early life== Wilder was born on September 8, 1913, in Macon, Georgia. She was a daughter of Oscar Owen Wilder and Laura Bryant (née Watson) Wilder. She grew up with 12 brothers and sisters.<ref name=macon>{{cite web | title=She was born in Macon but died in New York City as a princess | website=macon | date=2016-11-15 | url=https://www.macon.com/living/article114870598.html | access-date=2020-07-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/20/obituaries/honeychile-wilder-76-ex-showgirl-and-princess.html | title=Honeychile Wilder, 76, Ex-Showgirl and Princess | author=Robert McG. Thomas Jr. | work=The New York Times | date=20 August 1995 | accessdate=October 24, 2016}}</ref>
==Career== She made her way to Hollywood via New York City by the mid-1930s to pursue a career in acting. She had first worked as a showgirl for Bob Hope while in New York City, in the Palace Theater.
She received her first film role in 1936, having a minor part alongside James Stewart in ''Speed''. She followed this with two uncredited roles that same year, as well as a credited role alongside Gloria Stuart and Lee Tracy in ''Wanted! Jane Turner''. She stayed in close alliance with Bob Hope, working for him on radio shows during her entire career, and had her first film role alongside him in the 1936 film ''Walking on Air''.
She had two film appearances in 1937, the first in a minor role in the film ''New Faces of 1937'', which starred Milton Berle and Joe Penner, among others, and the second in ''On Again-Off Again'' alongside Marjorie Lord and Robert Woolsey. In 1938 she had minor roles in four films, the biggest of which was ''My Lucky Star'', starring Buddy Ebsen and Cesar Romero, along with a Shirley Temple film, ''Little Miss Broadway''. Her last film was Bob Hope's ''Thanks for the Memory'', starring Bob Hope and Shirley Ross.
She acquired the nickname "Honeychile" from her habit of referring to people by this name.<ref name=macon/>
==Later years and death== In 1935, she married reporter Robin "Curly" Harris.<ref>Oscar Levant, ''Memoirs of an Amnesiac'', p. 117</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Rumor |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75697669/1935-rumor/ |access-date=13 April 2021 |work=The Scranton Tribune |date=1 November 1935 |pages=13}}</ref> Her second husband was Albert Cernadas, an Argentine millionaire, whom she wed in 1941.<ref name="1951Announcement">{{cite news |title='HONEYCHILE' WILDER IS BRIDE OF PRINCE |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75697374/honeychile-wilder-is-bride-of-prince/ |access-date=13 April 2021 |work=The Bridgeport Post |date=7 May 1951 |pages=33}}</ref>
For a time in the 1940s she was in a relationship with King Farouk of Egypt, who she stated in an interview that of all her lovers, he was the one who had the best sense of humour and made her laugh the most.<ref>Stadiem, William (1991). Too Rich: The High Life and Tragic Death of King Farouk. New York: Carroll & Graf Pub. ISBN 0-88184-629-5 p. 52</ref> On 21 May 1951 in Greenwich, Connecticut, she married her third husband, Prince Alexander zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst.<ref name="1950Engagement">{{cite news |title=TROTH ANNOUNCED OF MISS O'CONNOR; Twin of Countess Crespi to Be Bride of Alexander Hohenlohe, Who Is a Former Prince |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1950/02/26/archives/troth-announced-of-miss-oconnor-twin-of-countess-crespi-to-be-bride.html |access-date=13 April 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=26 February 1950}}</ref> He was a son of Austrian diplomat Prince Alfred of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst and the former Catharine Britton of Washington D.C. (a daughter of Alexander B. Britton).<ref>{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=Special to The New York |title=MISS BRITTON WED TO AUSTRIAN PRINCE; Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Britton Marries Alfred zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst. HE IS EMBASSY ATTACHE Mgr. Russell Officiates at Simple Ceremony Attended by Diplomats of the Central Powers. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1916/12/15/archives/miss-britton-wed-to-austrian-prince-daughter-of-mr-and-mrs-alex.html |access-date=13 April 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=15 December 1916}}</ref><ref name="1929Death">{{cite news |title=AMERICAN PRINCESS IS DEAD IN VIENNA; Former Catharine Britton of Washington Wed to Prince Alfred Hohenlohe in 1916. WAS WAR NURSE IN FRANCE Death Was Caused by Sudden illness Resulting in Paralysis of theLungs--Operation Unavailing. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1929/06/25/archives/american-princess-is-dead-in-vienna-former-catharine-britton-of-was.html |access-date=13 April 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=25 June 1929}}</ref> They remained married until his death in 1984.<ref name="198Obit">{{cite news |title=Obituary for Prince Hohenlohe (Aged 71) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75697767/obituary-for-prince-hohenlohe-aged-71/ |access-date=13 April 2021 |work=The Orlando Sentinel |date=14 January 1984 |pages=22}}</ref>
Honeychile died in New York City in 1995.<ref name="1995Obit">{{cite news |last1=Thomas Jr. |first1=Robert Mcg. |title=Honeychile Wilder, 76, Ex-Showgirl and Princess |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/20/obituaries/honeychile-wilder-76-ex-showgirl-and-princess.html?searchResultPosition=3 |access-date=10 September 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=August 20, 1995}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0928617}}
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