Future Favorites — Pat Paterson (1936) 🇺🇸
Cheers for Walter Wanger for persuading sparkling Pat Paterson to desert her chosen profession of being just Mrs. Charles Boyer to grace once again the screen with her talented, diminutive self.
Although she is regarded as a newcomer around Hollywood, Miss Paterson is anything but that ... She started acting when only 10 years old, appearing in Babes in the Wood ...
When she was 15 she became a real professional ...Her first engagement was a six months tour through the British provinces with the Laidler Revue troupe ... Then she went to London and grabbed a job with the road company of Stop Flirting ... She was the under-study of the actress entrusted with the role created by Adele Astaire in London ... In Edinburgh, the star became ill and Pat played the role for an entire month ...
Her second big break also came as a result of another English star's illness ... that of Heather Angel ... And Pat stepped into her role as the star of “Let Us Be Gay,” a British picture ... The two girls are still the closest of friends ...
Three years ago, Pat came to Hollywood and made her bow before the cameras as Spencer Tracy's leading lady in “Bottoms Up” ...
She met Boyer at a party the night he arrived in Hollywood to make his first English-speaking film ... Three weeks later they went to a theatre ... The house had been sold out and they could not get seats ... Boyer proposed in the theatre lobby and an hour later they were flying to Yuma to be married ...
Pat is not the least bit domesticated, claiming her husband can cook better than she ... But she reads a great deal ... And also is very athletic, preferring swimming, tennis, badminton and riding ... Green is her favorite color ... And she prefers very plain clothes, slacks, tailored suits and simple evening gowns ... She has flashing blue eyes, reddish-blonde hair, and a smile that would make any man turn handsprings on red hot coals ...
Pat and Charles often spend quiet evenings at home for a week at a time ... Then they may go out for the same length of time ... She's a same little trouper, as well as a gifted one.
Pat was recently seen in “Spendthrift” — a charming picture — with Henry Fonda and Mary Brian.
And Pat and husband Charles have just returned from a trip abroad and we hope they are rarin' to get started again for we are rarin' to go and see more of Pat — and Mr. Boyer, too.
DID YOU KNOW THAT Joel McCrea when he gets tired of movie acting has his plans all laid for operating a "dude ranch" in Wyoming, exclusively for movie people who want to rough it?
Collection: Motion Picture Magazine, December 1936
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