Pat Paterson

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Pat Paterson (born in 1910, 1910 – 1978) was an English film actress.

Although she appeared in more than 20 films, she is best known as the wife of actor Charles Boyer.

Michael, the couple's only child, died of a self-inflicted bullet wound at the age of 21.

Childhood and early life

Paterson was born on April 10, 1910 at No.74 Fitzgerald Street, Horton, a suburb of Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire. Hannah Holroyd (b.) is her mother. Sherry Brab Paterson (b. 1888, Bradford) was an Englishman, and John Robb Paterson (b) was a student at the University of Bradford (b). Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, 1888, was a Scot. Eliza was the second of three children in the family's house.

Eliza was nicknamed Cissie (to rhyme with kiss) or Cissie, a common English word given to girls named Elizabeth or some of its variations (Eliza, Elspeth, etc.) from infancy. She had accumulated a portfolio of child-acting and modeling jobs in the local area by the time she was twelve years old.

As an infant, she attended Newby Primary School in West Bowling, Bradford.

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Early Hollywood career

In 1928, although she was 18 years old (the legal age of adulthood in the United Kingdom at the time was 21), she begged her parents to not allow her to leave for Hollywood. She first appeared in 1929 and was hired by Fox Studios as a freelance actor and immediately began to film roles. As the Pat-Paterson sound had an ear-catching alliterative rhythm, she was renamed Patricia (almost immediately shortened to Pat) Paterson.

She appeared in many studio pictures from 1930 to 1934, many in roles of increasing fame. Carol Arnold, the female lead in the 1935 Fox film Charlie Chan Goes To Egypt, starring Warner Oland as Chan. The studio had intended for this to be her break-out role for leading roles. Maurice Chevalier, a lifelong friend of Charles Boyer, a French actor, was invited to a Fox Studios post-New Year dinner party in early 1934, as production on Charlie Chan Goes To Egypt came to an end. Boyer confessed that their meeting was a case of passion at first sight in interviews over the years. They married in Yuma, Arizona, within four weeks of the event on St. Valentine's Day.

Later Hollywood career

Boyer was quoted in the American news media as claiming that his wife will relinquishing her career because married women should not work but rather devote their time and attention to raising their children. Paterson, on the other hand, continued to work. Hence, her best commercial triumphs came in the five years after 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 and her husband, Charles Boyer, as Europeans, committed themselves to assisting the war effort in Britain and France. It was the war that brought an end to her film career. Michael Charles Boyer, Los Angeles's only child, was born on December 9, 1943, two years after her husband Charles became an American citizen.

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