image of Pat Paterson
Birthday: Apr 10, 1910
Place of Birth: Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK

Pat Paterson

Pat Paterson (10 April 1910 – 24 August 1978) was an English film actress. Although she made more than 20 films, she is best known as the wife of actor Charles Boyer. The couple's only child, Michael, died by self-inflicted gunshot at the age of 21. In 1928, although aged only 18 (the legal age of adulthood in the UK at that time was 21) she persuaded her parents to allow her to leave for Hollywood. She arrived in 1929 and was signed by Fox Studios as a contract player and immediately began to obtain film roles. She was renamed Patricia (almost immediately shortened to Pat) Paterson, as the Pat-Paterson sound had an ear-catching alliterative rhythm. From 1930-34 she appeared in many studio pictures, in roles of increasing prominence. In the 1935 20th Century Fox film Charlie Chan Goes To Egypt, starring Warner Oland as Chan, she played the female lead, Carol Arnold. This was intended by the studio to serve as her break-out role for leading parts. In early 1934, as production on Charlie Chan Goes To Egypt was wrapping, Maurice Chevalier persuaded his lifelong best friend, fellow French actor Charles Boyer, to attend a Fox Studios post-New Year dinner party at which Pat Paterson was a guest. In interviews over the years, Boyer declared their meeting to have been a case of love at first sight. They married within four weeks of the party, on St. Valentine's Day, 14 February 1934, in Yuma, Arizona. Boyer was quoted in the American news media as claiming his wife would be relinquishing her career, as he felt married women should not work but devote their time and attention to bringing up their children. However, Paterson continued to work. Indeed, arguably her greatest commercial successes came in the five years immediately following her marriage to Boyer. She continued to appear in at least one film per year until the outbreak of World War II in 1939, when she, her husband and Maurice Chevalier, as Europeans, devoted themselves to supporting the war effort of Britain and France. It was the war which effectively brought an end to her film career. On 9 December 1943, two years after her husband Charles became an American citizen, she gave birth to their only child, Michael Charles Boyer, in Los Angeles, California.

Filmography
Movie Cast Year
Charlie Chan in Egypt Carol Arnold 1935
Murder on the Second Floor Sylvia Armitage 1932
Love Time Valerie 1934
Bottoms Up Wanda Gale 1934
Spendthrift Valerie 'Boots' O'Connell 1936
Idiot's Delight Mrs. Cherry 1939
Night Shadows Francine 1931
Here's George Laura Wentworth 1932
The Bermondsey Kid Mary 1933
The Medicine Man Gwendoline Wells 1933
Bitter Sweet Dolly 1933
The Lottery Lover Patty 1935
Call It Luck Pat Laurie 1934
The Great Gay Road Nancy 1931
Partners Please Angela Grittlewood 1932
The Right to Live June Kessler 1933
Lord Babs Helen Parker 1932
Hollywood Goes to Town Self 1938
52nd Street Margaret Rondell 1937
Series Cast Year
My Favorite

Welcome back!

Support Us

Like Movienade?

Please buy us a coffee

scan qr code