# Patsy De Forest

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{{short description|American actress}}
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| name                      = Patsy De Forest
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| birth_name                = Helen May Lanagan<ref name="pdfIMDB">{{cite web|last=Anon|title=Patsy De Forest Biography|website= IMDB.org|publisher=[IMDb](/source/IMDb)|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0208420/|access-date=13 May 2019}}</ref>
| birth_date                = {{Birth date|1894|05|01}}<ref name="pdfIMDB" />
| birth_place               = [Louisville, Kentucky](/source/Louisville%2C_Kentucky)<ref name="pdfIMDB" />
| death_date                = {{Death date and age|1966|08|01|1894|05|01}}
| death_place               = [New York City](/source/New_York_City)<ref name="pdfLOC">{{cite web|last=Anon|title=De Forest, Patsy, 1894-1966|website= LOC.gov|publisher=[Library of Congress](/source/Library_of_Congress)|url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013127397.html|access-date=13 May 2019}}</ref>
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'''Patsy De Forest''' (born '''Helen May Lanagan'''; May 1, 1894 &ndash; August 1, 1966) was an American actress of the silent cinema era who performed on the stage since childhood before acting in films.

==Career==
De Forest acted in over eighty films from 1912 to 1920, with over thirty appearances each in 1915 and in 1916. She worked with several production companies including [Lubin Manufacturing Company](/source/Lubin_Manufacturing_Company), [Vitagraph Studios](/source/Vitagraph_Studios) and [Fox Film Corporation](/source/Fox_Film). She acted in several comedies directed by [Lawrence Semon](/source/Larry_Semon) of Vitagraph in the mid-1910s. She also acted in some [Broadway](/source/Broadway_theatre) [musicals](/source/Musical_theatre).<ref name="pdfIBDB" />

De Forest's last film appearance was in [Sunset Sprague](/source/Sunset_Sprague), a 1920 [Western](/source/Western_(genre)) in which she was the female lead. She died in August 1966 at the age of 72.

==Filmography==
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* ''Wifey's Ma Comes Back'', directed by [Arthur Hotaling](/source/Arthur_Hotaling) (1912)
* ''Patsy at School'', directed by Percy Winter (1914)
* ''Patsy's First Love'' (1915)
* ''Feel My Muscle''
* ''Patsy at College''
* ''Patsy's Vacation''
* ''Patsy in Business''
* ''Patsy on a Trolley Car''
* ''Patsy in a Seminary''
* ''His Soul Mate'', directed by [Joseph Kaufman](/source/Joseph_Kaufman_(director)) (1915)
* ''Patsy at the Seashore''
* ''Patsy's Elopement''
* ''The Human Investment'', directed by [George Terwilliger](/source/George_Terwilliger) (1915)
* ''Patsy Among the Fairies''
* ''Patsy in Town''
* ''Patsy Among the Smugglers''
* ''Patsy on a Yacht''
* ''Patsy, Married and Settled''
* ''Out for a Stroll''
* ''The New Butler'', directed by Arthur Hotaling (1915)
* ''A Day on the Force''
* ''The New Valet''
* ''Wifey's Ma Comes Back''
* ''When Wifey Sleeps''
* ''Billie's Heiress''
* ''Billie's Debut''
* ''Queenie of the Nile''
* ''Think of the Money''
* ''Playing Horse''
* ''The Cellar Spy''
* ''His Three Brides''
* ''[Blaming the Duck, or Ducking the Blame](/source/Blaming_the_Duck%2C_or_Ducking_the_Blame)''
* ''And the Parrot Said...?''
* ''The Great Detective'', directed by [Edwin McKim](/source/Edwin_McKim) (1915)
* ''This Isn't the Life''
* ''His Lordship'', directed by Edwin McKim (1916)
* ''Fooling Uncle''
* ''The New Janitor''
* ''[The Butler](/source/The_Butler_(1916_film))''
* ''The Fatal Bean''
* ''Otto the Bllboy''
* ''Frocks and Frills''
* ''Skirts and Cinders''
* ''Otto the Artist''
* ''Otto the Hero''
* ''Trilby Frilled''
* ''Otto the Reporter''
* ''Otto the Cobbler''
* ''Otto's Legacy''
* ''No Place Like Jail''
* ''Otto the Traffic Cop''
* ''Otto's Vacation''
* ''Otto the Sleuth''
* ''Otto, the Salesman''
* ''Otto, the Gardener''
* ''Romance and Roughhouse'', directed by [Lawrence Semon](/source/Larry_Semon) (1916)
* ''There and Back''
* ''A Villainous Villain''
* ''Love and Loot''
* ''Sand, Scamps and Strategy''
* ''She Who Last Laughs''
* ''Walls and Wallops''
* ''Jumps and Jealousy''
* ''His Conscious Conscience''
* ''Hash and Havoc''
* ''Help! Help! Help!''
* ''Rah! Rah! Rah!''
* ''Shanks and Chivalry''
* ''Speed and Spunk''
* ''Bullies and Bullets''
* ''Cops and Cussedness''
* ''The Gift of the Magi'', directed by Brinsley Shaw (1917)
* ''Her Secret'', directed by [Perry N. Vekroff](/source/Perry_N._Vekroff) (1917)
* ''[An Alabaster Box](/source/An_Alabaster_Box)'', directed by [Chester Withey](/source/Chester_Withey) (1917)
* ''The Guilty Party'', directed by Thomas R. Mills (1917)
* ''The Love Doctor'', directed by Paul Scardon (1917)
* ''[A Night in New Arabia](/source/A_Night_in_New_Arabia)'', directed by Thomas R. Mills (1917)
* ''The Last Leaf'', directed by [Ashley Miller](/source/Ashley_Miller_(director)) (1917)
* ''A Madison Square Arabian Night''
* ''Lost on Dress Parade''
* ''Bullin' the Bullsheviki''
* ''My Girl Suzanne''
* ''[Square Shooter](/source/Square_Shooter)''
* ''Sunset Sprague'', directed by [Paul Cazeneuve](/source/Paul_Cazeneuve) and [Thomas N. Heffron](/source/Thomas_N._Heffron) (1920)
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==Theatrical Appearances==
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[[File:Buck Jones &amp; Patsy De Forest - Sep 1920 EH.jpg|[Buck Jones](/source/Buck_Jones) and Patsy De Forest between scenes, p. 66 of the [Exhibitors Herald](/source/Motion_Picture_Herald) (09/18/1920)|thumb|upright|alt=Buck Jones and Patsy De Forest between scenes, p. 66 of the Exhibitors Herald (09/18/1920)]]
*''All Aboard'' ([Broadway](/source/Broadway_theatre), June 5, 1913)
*''The Red Canary'' (Broadway, April 13, 1914)
*''The Peasant Girl'' (Broadway, March 2, 1915)
*''Come Along'' (Broadway, April 8, 1919)
*''Oh, What A Girl!'' (Broadway, July 28, 1919)

==References==
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Category:Actresses from Louisville, Kentucky
Category:American silent film actresses
Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:American musical theatre actresses
Category:1894 births
Category:1966 deaths

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