1. Patricia Morison made her feature film debut in 1939 after several years on the stage, and amongst her most renowned were The Fallen Sparrow, Dressed to Kill opposite Basil Rathbone and the screen adaptation of The Song of Bernadette.
32 Facts About Patricia Morison
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Patricia Morison was lauded as a beauty with large blue eyes and extremely long, dark hair.
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Eileen Patricia Augusta Fraser Morison was born in Manhattan on March 19,1915, although some sources have erroneously given her year of birth as 1914.
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Patricia Morison's father William was a playwright and actor from Belfast while her mother, Selena Morison, worked for British Intelligence during World War I After graduating from Washington Irving High School in New York, Morison studied at the Arts Students League while taking acting classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse.
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In 1938, Morison appeared in the musical The Two Bouquets, which ran for only 55 performances.
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Patricia Morison made her feature film debut in the "B" film Persons in Hiding.
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Patricia Morison was reportedly dropped from The Glass Key due to her towering over her co-star Alan Ladd.
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Patricia Morison returned to acting in the cinema as a freelance performer.
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Patricia Morison appeared in The Fallen Sparrow with John Garfield and Maureen O'Hara, and Calling Dr Death, one of the "Inner Sanctum" films, starring Lon Chaney Jr.
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In 1944, Patricia Morison briefly abandoned her film work and returned to the Broadway stage.
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Patricia Morison played the female antagonist in Tarzan and the Huntress, the penultimate film starring Johnny Weissmuller as Edgar Rice Burroughs' title character.
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Patricia Morison's few leading roles during this time were in "B" pictures, notably as Maid Marian opposite Jon Hall's Robin Hood in the Cinecolor production The Prince of Thieves for Columbia, then did two films for Robert Lippert, the action film Queen of the Amazons with Richard Arlen, and the sepia-toned western The Return of Wildfire.
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Patricia Morison played the role of Victor Mature's despairing, suicide-driven wife in Kiss of Death.
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Patricia Morison's role was cut from the final print, over censorship concerns and the producers' reputed belief that audiences at that time were not ready for a scene depicting suicide.
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Patricia Morison starred in a 1948 espionage film shot in Mexico, Sofia.
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In 1948, Patricia Morison again abandoned her film career and returned to the stage, and achieved her greatest success.
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Patricia Morison went on to major Broadway stardom when she created the role of Lilli Vanessi, the imperious stage diva whose own volatile personality coincided with that of her onstage role.
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Patricia Morison played in the London production of Kiss Me, Kate, which ran for 400 performances.
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In February 1954, Patricia Morison took over the role of Anna Leonowens in the Rodgers and Hammerstein production of The King and I, which co-starred Yul Brynner in his star-making role as the King of Siam.
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Lawrence was replaced by Celeste Holm, Constance Carpenter, Annamary Dickey, and finally Patricia Morison, who appeared in The King and I until its Broadway closing on March 20,1954, and then continued with the production on the national tour, which included a stop at the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera.
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Patricia Morison played the role at the Municipal Theatre in St Louis, Missouri; the production opened on June 11,1959.
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Patricia Morison appeared in 1952 on the Christmas Party episode of the Honeymooners segment of Jackie Gleason's show playing herself as Trixie Norton's former Vaudevillian friend.
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Patricia Morison appeared in General Foods 25th Anniversary Show: A Salute to Rodgers and Hammerstein broadcast March 28,1954 on all four American TV networks of the time.
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Patricia Morison appeared with Howard Keel in a production of Kiss Me, Kate on British television in 1964.
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Patricia Morison was featured in the documentary If You're Not In the Obit, Eat Breakfast, a television film which premiered in 2017.
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Patricia Morison performed in still more productions of Kiss, Me Kate at the Seattle Opera House and the New York City Center.
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Patricia Morison made only three film appearances after her stage triumph in Kiss Me, Kate.
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On November 18,1999, Patricia Morison attended the opening night performance of the successful Kiss Me, Kate Broadway revival, the first such revival in New York, starring Brian Stokes Mitchell and Marin Mazzie.
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At the time of her death in May 2018, Patricia Morison was one of the very few living cast members, and the only surviving featured player from that original production.
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Patricia Morison sang "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" from Kiss Me, Kate.
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Patricia Morison was interviewed in the Los Angeles Times on March 7,2015, and by namesake Patt Morrison on KPCC radio in Los Angeles.
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Patricia Morison died at her home in Los Angeles on May 20,2018, at the age of 103.