Shirley Patterson
Born: 1922-12-26 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Died: 1995-04-04
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Shirley Patterson, sometimes billed as Shawn Smith, (December 26, 1922 – April 4, 1995) was a Canadian born B-movie actress of the 1940s and 1950s. Patterson began her acting career after being a beauty contestant in pageants in California in 1940. She graduated from the Mar-Ken School in Sherman Oaks, California in 1941, and shortly thereafter she signed a contract with Columbia Pictures. Her career spanned forty films, a small quantity of television appearances, and a serial. A beautiful woman in her youth, Patterson played the role of heroine in the 1943 fifteen chapter Batman serial. In 1944 she starred in The Vigilantes Ride alongside Russell Hayden and Bob Wills. In 1946 she accompanied Eddie Dean and Roscoe Ates in the film Driftin River, and starred with them again that same year in Tumbleweed Trail. Two of her last films was the 1957 movie The Land Unknown, and the 1958 Sci-Fi film It! The Terror from Beyond Space, which also starred Ray "Crash" Corrigan who played a monster from outer space. Patterson had a long fight with cancer in her later years, and died in 1995 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Description above from the Wikipedia article Shirley Patterson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2021
- Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies as Self - (archive footage)
1960
- Maigret as Maid
1958
- It! The Terror from Beyond Space as Ann Anderson
1957
- The Land Unknown as Margaret 'Maggie' Hathaway
1956
- World Without End as Elaine
1954
- The Silver Chalice as Poppaea (uncredited)
- The French Line as Elsie (uncredited)
- The Long Wait as Carol Shay (as Shawn Smith)
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Betty Maxwell
1947
- Black Hills as Janet Hadley
1946
- The Harvey Girls as Harvey Girl (uncredited)
- Stars Over Texas as Terry Lawrence
- Tumbleweed Trail as Robin Ryan
- Driftin' River as J.C. Morgan
1945
- Keep Your Powder Dry as WAC Brooks
- Between Two Women as Nurse Thorsen
1944
- Marriage Is a Private Affair as Mary Saunders
- Riding West as Alice Morton
1943
- The More the Merrier as Girl (uncredited)
- Batman as Linda Page
- Phony Express as Lola (bargirl)
- Good Luck, Mr. Yates as Secretary
- Destroyer as Bigbee's Girl (uncredited)
- Dangerous Blondes as Bride (uncredited)
- Law of the Northwest as Michele Darcy
- A Maid Made Mad as Bellhop at Amazon Hotel for Women
- Here Comes Mr. Zerk as Josephine
- Redhead from Manhattan as Telephone Operator
- The Texas Kid as Nancy
- The Vigilantes Ride
- Spook Louder as Perkins, the Secretary
1942
- The Spirit of Stanford as June Rogers
- Riders of the Northland as Sheila Taylor
- A Man's World as Nurse Bentley
- North of the Rockies as Lydia Rogers
- Lucky Legs as Chambermaid
- Riding Through Nevada as Gail Holloway
- Parachute Nurse as Katherine Webb
- Sabotage Squad as Miss Cole, secretary