Shirley Patterson
Date of birth: 1922-12-26
Place of birth: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Shawn Smith
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Shirley Patterson, sometimes billed as Shawn Smith, (December 26, 1922 – April 4, 1995) was a Canadian born B-movie actress of the 1940s and 1950s. Patterson began her acting career after being a beauty contestant in pageants in California in 1940. She graduated from the Mar-Ken School in Sherman Oaks, California in 1941, and shortly thereafter she signed a contract with Columbia Pictures. Her career spanned forty films, a small quantity of television appearances, and a serial. A beautiful woman in her youth, Patterson played the role of heroine in the 1943 fifteen chapter Batman serial. In 1944 she starred in The Vigilantes Ride alongside Russell Hayden and Bob Wills. In 1946 she accompanied Eddie Dean and Roscoe Ates in the film Driftin River, and starred with them again that same year in Tumbleweed Trail. Two of her last films was the 1957 movie The Land Unknown, and the 1958 Sci-Fi film It! The Terror from Beyond Space, which also starred Ray "Crash" Corrigan who played a monster from outer space. Patterson had a long fight with cancer in her later years, and died in 1995 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Description above from the Wikipedia article Shirley Patterson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
It! The Terror from Beyond Space
1958-07-31
The first manned expedition to Mars is invaded by an unknown life form, which stows away on the resc
The Long Wait
1954-05-26
Soon after thumbing a ride from a truck driver, Johnny McBride is badly burned and suffers from comp
The Land Unknown
1957-10-15
Navy Commander Alan Roberts is assigned to lead an expedition to Little America in Antarctica to inv
A Maid Made Mad
1943-03-19
Andy innocently becomes involved with a female customer; his wife jumps to the wrong conclusion and
World Without End
1956-03-25
Four astronauts returning from man's first mission to Mars enter a time warp and crash on a 26th Cen
Phony Express
1943-11-18
Set in the old west, the stooges are three tramps wanted for vagrancy. After ruining a medicine pedd
Batman
1943-07-16
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's
Black Hills
1947-10-26
When Hadley finds gold on his land, Kirby kills him and then goes after Hadley's ranch. After Eddie
The Texas Kid
1943-11-26
Marshals Nevada and Sandy are after Scully and his gang who have been robbing stage-coaches. The Tex
Between Two Women
1945-03-28
A young doctor proves his worth at a metropolitan hospital.
Tumbleweed Trail
1946-07-19
Eddie Dean's assignment is to thwart the efforts of a crooked gambler, Brad Barton, to take over the
Driftin' River
1946-10-01
Eddie Dean (Eddie Dean) and his partner Soapy Jones (Roscoe Ates), under government orders, proceed
Spook Louder
1943-04-02
The stooges are door-to-door salesman peddling a weight reducing machine, until they come to the hou
Riding West
1944-05-17
Charles Starrett stars in the lightning-paced Columbia western Riding West. Somebody is planning to
Law of the Northwest
1943-05-26
Briefly switching gears in 1942 and 1943, western star Charles Starrett made a handful of "northerns
Riders of the Northland
1942-06-18
In this western, three Texas Rangers decide to do their part to save the world and join the Army, bu
Parachute Nurse
1942-08-06
Nurses parachuting.
Destroyer
1943-08-19
Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to
The Spirit of Stanford
1942-10-08
Columbia's Spirit of Stanford is built around the talents of a real-life college football star, in t
Here Comes Mr. Zerk
1943-07-23
Harry, a famous scientist, is mistaken for an escaped lunatic.
Good Luck, Mr. Yates
1943-06-29
A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home
Redhead from Manhattan
1943-05-06
Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita sh
Lucky Legs
1942-10-01
Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Pro
Stars Over Texas
1946-11-18
Eddie Dean is a Cattlemen's Association agent investigating a serious rash of rustlings along with s
North of the Rockies
1942-04-02
Morgan and his gang are smuggling furs across the border. Both the Mounties on the Canadian side and
The Vigilantes Ride
1943-12-23
When Rangers Lucky and his brother chase outlaws, the brother is killed. To find the killer Lucky qu
Riding Through Nevada
1942-11-02
Riding Through Nevada is a western starring Charles Starrett
The Silver Chalice
1954-12-20
A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the fa
Sabotage Squad
1942-08-27
A police lieutenant and a patriotic professional gambler, rivals in life and love, combine efforts t
Dangerous Blondes
1943-09-23
Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes ra
Marriage Is a Private Affair
1944-08-23
Theo has had many boyfriends who wanted to marry her. Since her mother, Mrs. Selworth, has been marr
Keep Your Powder Dry
1945-04-01
A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
The French Line
1954-02-08
Oil heiress Mame Carson takes an incognito cruise so that men will love her for her body, not her mo
A Man's World
1942-09-17
Somewhere beyond the shores of the United States on a small island, where men ask no questions, wome
The More the Merrier
1943-05-13
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C.