1. Eileen Cecilia "Patricia" Collinge was an Irish-American actress and writer.
13 Facts About Patricia Collinge
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Patricia Collinge was best known for her stage appearances, as well as her roles in the films The Little Foxes and Shadow of a Doubt.
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Patricia Collinge was nominated for an Academy Award and won a NBR Award for The Little Foxes.
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Patricia Collinge immigrated to the United States with her mother in 1907.
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In 1911, Patricia Collinge played Youth in the Broadway production of Everywoman, with Laura Nelson Hall in the title role.
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Patricia Collinge reprised the role in the 1912 London production starring Alexandra Carlisle.
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Patricia Collinge toured in A Regular Businessman, was the original Pollyanna Whittier in Pollyanna, and toured with Tillie in 1919.
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Patricia Collinge was a member of the original Broadway cast of The Little Foxes with Tallulah Bankhead as the lead in 1939, playing the role of the tragic Birdie Hubbard.
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Patricia Collinge worked with Alma Reville and Ben Hecht on the screenplay for Hitchcock's Lifeboat, which starred Tallulah Bankhead.
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Patricia Collinge appeared in four episodes of the popular series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
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Patricia Collinge wrote the play Dame Nature, an adaptation of a French drama by Andre Birabeau, in addition to some short stories for The New Yorker, and contributed to The New York Times Book Review.
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Patricia Collinge died on April 10,1974, in New York City, New York, at the age of 81 of a heart attack.
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Patricia Collinge is buried with her husband at Saint Mary's Cemetery in Nantucket, Massachusetts.