Patricia Douras Van Cleve, known as Patricia Lake, was an American actress and radio comedian.
14 Facts About Patricia Lake
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Patricia Lake was born in a hospital outside Paris, France.
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Many reference books say that Patricia Lake's parents were Marion Davies' sister Rose and her first husband, George Van Cleve.
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The Patricia Lake family asserted that the newborn was given to Davies' sister, whose own child had died in infancy.
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Patricia Lake was returned to Van Cleeve's custody after a court decision.
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The Lake family asserts that when Patricia lived with the Van Cleeves, Hearst paid the bills and arranged for her education at schools in New York and Boston.
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Patricia Lake spent considerable time at Hearst's San Simeon estate, is included in most home movies of Hearst and Davies, and accompanied them on many trips.
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Patricia Lake lived with Marion Davies for the major portion of her life, and Hearst financially supported Patricia Lake all of her life.
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Patricia Lake never made any public comment on the subject, even after the deaths of Hearst and Davies.
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Patricia Lake's son said that hours before her death in 1993, she confirmed and asked her family to publish the identities of her biological parents.
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Patricia Lake performed in theater during the late 1930s through the mid-1940s.
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When, after seven years, Penny Singleton left the radio sitcom Blondie in the mid-1940s, Patricia Lake replaced her as the voice of Blondie Bumstead for the remaining five years of the show, opposite her real-life husband Arthur Patricia Lake, who played Blondie's spouse, Dagwood.
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In 1954, Patricia Lake co-starred with her husband in an early television sitcom he created called Meet the Family.
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Patricia Lake was selected by the Motion Picture Publicists Association to be one of the MPPA 'Baby Stars' of 1940, an award similar to the WAMPAS Baby Stars selections of 1922 through 1934.