Gail Patrick

Born: 1911-06-20

​Gail Patrick (born Margaret LaVelle Fitzpatrick, June 20, 1911 - July 6, 1980) was an American film actress. She appeared in 62 movies between 1932 and 1948. Some of these roles are in My Favorite Wife, Dangerous to Know, and in My Man Godfrey. Patrick retired from acting in films in 1948 and later became a producer of Perry Mason.


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My Favorite Wife

as Bianca Bates
Released: 1940-05-17

Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of...

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My Man Godfrey

as Cornelia Bullock
Released: 1936-09-02

Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one...

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Stage Door

as Linda Shaw
Released: 1937-10-07

The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show...

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Brewster's Millions

as Barbara Drew
Released: 1945-04-07

Monty Brewster is a pennyless, former U.S. Army soldier back from World War II Europe who learns...

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Tales of Manhattan

as Ellen - Diane's friend
Released: 1942-08-05

Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed...

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Love Crazy

as Isobel Kimble Grayson
Released: 1941-05-23

Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of...

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If I Had a Million

as New Secretary at Idylwood (uncredited)
Released: 1932-11-18

An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to...

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Reno

as Jessie Gibbs
Released: 1939-12-01

A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.

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A Dream Comes True

as Herself (uncredited)
Released: 1935-12-31

A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).

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Death Takes a Holiday

as Rhoda
Released: 1934-03-30

After years of questioning why people fear him, Death takes on human form so he can mingle among...

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The Big Parade of Comedy

as Isobel Grayson in 'Love Crazy' (archive footage)
Released: 1964-09-02

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

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No More Ladies

as Therese Germane
Released: 1935-06-14

A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.

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Cradle Song

as Sister Maria Lucia
Released: 1933-11-19

In a deeply cloistered convent, nun Dorothea Wieck (Mädchen in Uniform) raises a foundling to be...

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Pick-up

as Party Girl (uncredited)
Released: 1933-03-24

The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both...

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Women in Bondage

as Margot Bracken
Released: 1943-12-16

Women in Bondage is a 1943 World War II film about conditions for women under Hitler's regime....

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Doubting Thomas

as Florence McCrickett
Released: 1935-07-10

A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local...

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Artists & Models

as Cynthia Wentworth
Released: 1937-08-04

An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.

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Calendar Girl

as Olivia Radford
Released: 1947-01-31

Around the turn of the century, two young men, Johnnie Bennett, a composer and Steve Adams, an...

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Disbarred

as Joan Carroll
Released: 1939-01-06

The Bar Association disbars attorney Tyler Cradon when it appears he was implicated in the...

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Wagon Wheels

as Nancy Wellington
Released: 1934-09-15

A wagon train heads west from Independence, Mo., along the Oregon Trail, led by proud cowboy...

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Murder with Pictures

as Meg Archer
Released: 1936-09-24

Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the...

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To the Last Man

as Ann Hayden Stanley
Released: 1933-09-15

In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to...

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Gambling Ship

as (uncredited)
Released: 1933-06-23

Tired of the dangerous life as gambling boss, Ace Corbin 'retires' from the racket and travels...

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The Crime of Helen Stanley

as Helen Stanley
Released: 1934-04-20

An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with...

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Rendezvous with Annie

as Dolores Starr
Released: 1946-07-22

A homesick American soldier stationed in England during World War II makes an unauthorized trip...

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Rumba

as Patsy Fletcher
Released: 1935-02-08

A bored society girl sets her sights on a dancer in a Broadway show.

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Twice Blessed

as Mary Hale
Released: 1945-05-31

Stephanie and Terry are identical twins who have been raised separately since their parents...

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Dangerous to Know

as Margaret Van Kase
Released: 1938-03-11

Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying,...

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The Lone Wolf Returns

as Marcia Stewart
Released: 1935-12-31

Once a jewel thief always a jewel thief? Yes and no. Yes if you consider the fact that Michael...

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Gallant Sons

as Clare Pendleton
Released: 1940-11-15

When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to...

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Her Husband Lies

as Natalie Martin
Released: 1937-03-13

J. Ward Thomas of Park Avenue leads a double life as an investment broker and as notorious...

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Two-Fisted

as Sue Parker
Released: 1935-10-03

A fast-talking boxing manager and the somewhat hapless fighter he manages happen to run into a...

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One Hour Late

as Ellen Barclay
Released: 1934-12-14

A secretary catches the eye of her amorous boss while her regular boyfriend keeps trying to...

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Two in the Dark

as Irene Lassiter
Released: 1936-01-10

Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he...

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The Big Broadcast of 1936

as Nurse
Released: 1935-09-20

Two-bit radio station owner Spud Miller doubles as the station's sole announcer. On the verge of...

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Murder at the Vanities

as Sadie Evans
Released: 1934-05-18

Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's...

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Mississippi

as Elvira
Released: 1935-03-22

A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished...

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Smart Girl

as Kay Reynolds
Released: 1935-07-16

Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her...

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Up in Mabel's Room

as Mabel Essington
Released: 1944-09-12

Newly-married Gary Ainsworth (Dennis O'Keefe) once gave his former sweetheart Mabel (Gail...

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We Were Dancing

as Linda Wayne
Released: 1942-04-30

A penniless former princess weds an equally cash-strapped baron, so they support themselves by...

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Kathleen

as Lorraine Bennett
Released: 1941-12-18

Kathleen is a twelve-year-old who lives in a big house with a nanny, a butler, maids, no mother...

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The Movie Orgy

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1968-01-01

Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels,...

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Take the Stand

as Cornelia Burbank
Released: 1934-08-07

A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective...

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White Hunter

as Helen Varek
Released: 1936-11-25

Safari guide Capt. Clark Rutledge is hired by the man Michael Varek who was responsible for his...

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Murders in the Zoo

as Jerry Evans
Released: 1933-03-31

Dr. Gorman is a millionaire adventurer, traveling the world in search of dangerous game. His...

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The Madonna's Secret

as Ella Randolph
Released: 1946-02-16

This drama is an updated version of Ulmer's 1944 film Bluebeard. It is set in New York and...

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The Inside Story

as Audrey O'Connor
Released: 1948-03-14

A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the...

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Mad About Music

as Gwen Taylor
Released: 1938-02-27

A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself...

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Wives Under Suspicion

as Lucy Stowell
Released: 1938-06-03

A merciless district attorney prosecutes a case that mirrors his own life.

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Claudia and David

as Julia Naughton
Released: 1946-02-25

The follow-up film to "Claudia", with Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young reprising their earlier...

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The Doctor Takes a Wife

as Marilyn Thomas
Released: 1940-04-25

A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual...

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Early to Bed

as Grace Stanton
Released: 1936-06-05

Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years...

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The Phantom Broadcast

as Laura Hamilton
Released: 1933-03-14

A handsome radio singer has it all--fame, money, adoring fans--but what no one knows is that his...

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Grand Jury Secrets

as Agnes Carren
Released: 1939-06-23

A newspaper reporter gets involved with shady stock promoters when he listens in on a jury room...

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The Mysterious Rider

as Mary Benton Foster
Released: 1933-01-30

The ranchers have given money through Benton to the crooked lawyer Harkness to save the titles...

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Man of Conquest

as Margaret Lea
Released: 1939-05-15

The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the...

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Quiet Please, Murder

as Myra Blandy
Released: 1943-03-19

A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to...

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King of the Wild Horses

as Ellen Taggert
Released: 1947-03-28

The deep unbreakable bond between a wild stallion and the boy he rescues is chronicled in this...

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King of Alcatraz

as Dale Borden
Released: 1938-09-30

A convict who has just escaped from Alcatraz Prison takes over a passenger ship. Two of the...

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The Preview Murder Mystery

as Claire Woodward Smith
Released: 1936-02-28

The star of "Song of the Toreador" receives threatening messages that he will not survive the...

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The Plainsman and the Lady

as Cathy Arnesen
Released: 1946-11-11

Film about the early days of the Pony Express and the crooked businessman who opposed it.

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John Meade's Woman

as Caroline Haig
Released: 1937-02-26

"Teddy" Connor, a woman recently orphaned, leaves her uncle's Midwestern farm for Chicago, where...

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Wanderer of the Wasteland

as Ruth Virey
Released: 1935-09-09

Adam Larey becomes a fugitive from justice when he escapes after being blamed for a crime he did...

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Hit Parade of 1943

as Toni Jarrett
Released: 1943-03-26

When amateur songwriter Jill Wright moves from the Midwest to New York City, she is dismayed to...

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