Patricia Morison
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Ursula Eileen Fraser Morison (March 19, 1915 – May 20, 2018) was an American stage, television, and film actress of the Golden Age of Hollywood and a mezzo-soprano performer.
She made her film debut in 1939 after many years on stage, and among her most well-known films were The Fallen Sparrow, Dressed to Kill opposite Basil Rathbone and The Song of Bernadette's screen version.
She was praised as a beauty with large blue eyes and long, dark hair.
She was often depicted as the femme fatale or "other woman" during this time in her career.
She had her greatest success as the lead in Cole Porter's original production of Kiss Me, Kate and then in The King and I, but it was only when she returned to Broadway that she found her greatest success as the lead.
Early life
Eileen Fraser Morison was born in Manhattan on March 19, 1915, but some sources have incorrectly listed her year of birth as 1914.
William R. Morison, a playwright and occasional actor who appeared under the stage name Norman Rainey, was born in Belfast and best known for his work as a servant in the Mervyn LeRoy production of Little Women. Selena Morison (née Fraser) worked for British Intelligence during World War II. Morison attended the Arts Students League after graduating from Washington Irving High School in New York while taking acting lessons at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Martha Graham taught dance as a student at the University of Cape Town. During this period, she was employed as a costume shop designer at a Russeks department store.
In her debut appearance at the Provincetown Playhouse in the musical revue Don't Care the Rain, Morison performed "Simple Silly I" in which she performed a song "Simple Silly I." Growing Pains, her Broadway debut, appeared in November 1933. Helen Hayes was then understudied in the role of Victoria Regina. She was understudied by all the other women in the role. Hayes was sick, but they didn't cancel the show until Hayes returned, and Morison never had the opportunity to play the lead.
Morison made her first film appearance in 1935, four years before her official film debut, in a car propaganda short called Wreckless. Morison appeared in the musical The Two Bouquets, which ran for only 55 performances in 1938. Alfred Drake, who would appear opposite Morison in the Broadway hit Kiss Me, Kate, was one of the other cast members.
Film career
As he appeared in The Two Bouquets, Morison was noticed by talent scouts from Paramount Pictures, who were looking for exotic, dark-haired glamorous types similar to Dorothy Lamour, one of their famous models. Morison subsequently agreed to a Morison remained on probation after signing a Morison subsequently signed a In Hiding (1939), she made her debut in the "B" film Peoples. In 1939, Isobel was considered by In 1939, Gary Cooper and Ray Milland starring Gary Cooper and Ray Milland starring Gary Cooper and Ray Milland Ray Milland starring Gary Cooper and Ray Milland Gary Cooper and Ray Milland Roland Geste defin 1939, Paragraphe'sobertagare in 1939, Paragrapheh starring Gary Cooper and Ray Milland Ray Milland Ray Milland Ray Milland Ray Milland Ray Milland Ray Milland Ray Milland Ray Milland Ray Milland Ray Milland Ray Milland Ray Milland Ray Milland Ray Milland, Paragraph a, Paragrapher in 1939, Paramount'sogar and Ray Milland, Paramount'so, but Susan Hayward'so, e. In the ensuing year, she appeared in Untamed, a reimagining of the Clara Bow vehicle, Man Trap (1926).
Despite Morrison's promising start, she was recruited to several second-tier films, including Rangers of Fortune (1940) and One Night in Lisbon (1941), which were coproduced by Fred MacMurray and Richard Dix and Preston Foster. She appeared in one of her first villainess roles in Romero's "Royal" (1941), which starred Cesar Romero as the Cisco Kid, on a loan out to 20th Century-Fox. She left Paramount after a string of unrewarding appearances, including Night in New Orleans (1942), Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942), and Are Husbands Necessary? (1942) She was reportedly dropped from The Glass Key (1942) due to her soaring over her co-star Alan Ladd.
The United States had engulfed World War II by 1942, and Morison became one of many famous entertainers of American troops and their allies. On a USO Tour in Great Britain in November of that year, she joined Al Jolson, Merle Oberon, Allen Jenkins, and Frank McHugh.
Morison returned to acting as a free performer in the cinema. Empress Eugénie (1943) starring Jennifer Jones was one of her best roles, albeit a minor supporting one. She appeared in "The Fallen Sparrow (1943) with John Garfield and Maud O'Hara, as well as Calling Dr. Death (1945), one of the "Inner Sanctum" films starring Lon Chaney Jr.
Morison briefly halted film work and returned to Broadway in 1944. She opened Allah Be Praised, a musical comedy, at the Adelphi Theatre in April. Despite a brief run of just 20 performances, the play was ultimately dissatisfied and closed.
Morison's return to film was soon enough, as well as the Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn vehicle, "With Love (1945), and the Deanna Durbin comedy-mystery Lady on a Train (1945).
In the final installments of Universal's Sherlock Holmes and MGM's The Thin Man series (1996), she appeared in a narrating manner. In Tarzan and the Huntress (1947), the penultimate film starring Johnny Weissmuller as Edgar Rice Burroughs' title character, she played the female protagonist.
Her few leading roles in this period were in "B" films, including Maid Marian opposite Jon Hall in the Cinemacolor film The Prince of Thieves (1947) for Columbia, then followed Robert Lippert's The Return of Wildfire (1948) and an espionage film shot in Mexico (1948). In Kiss of Death (1947), Victor Mature's numbing, suicide-driven wife appeared. Her role was axed from the final print due to censorship issues and the producers' assertion that audiences at the time were not interested in a scene depicting suicide. In a 1948 spy drama Sofia, Morison appeared in a televation tale.
In the 1960 Franz Liszt biopic, Song Without End, Morison portrayed George Sand after a long absence from the screen.