Gail Patrick

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Gail Patrick (born June 20, 1911 – died July 6, 1980) was an American actress.

She appeared in 62 movies between 1932 and 1948, usually as the leading lady's extremely formidable rival; good examples are her roles as the second wife in My Favorite Wife (1940) with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, as Anna May Wong's sophisticated competitor in Dangerous to Know (1938), or as Carole Lombard's character's spoiled sister in My Man Godfrey (1936). Her patrician bearing and luminous beauty also enabled her to play the lead in films like James Whale's Wives Under Suspicion (1938) and Robert Florey's Disbarred (1939). She retired from acting in films in 1948 and later became a producer of the 1950s Perry Mason television series.

[edit] Partial Filmography

• Rumba (1935) with George Raft and Carole Lombard
• Wagon Wheels (1934) with Randolph Scott
• Mississippi (1935) with Bing Crosby, W.C. Fields, and Joan Bennett
• Two in the Dark (1936)
• My Man Godfrey (1936; directed by Gregory LaCava) with William Powell and Carole Lombard
• Stage Door (1937; directed by Gregory LaCava) with Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Lucille Ball, and Eve Arden
• Dangerous to Know (1938; directed by Robert Florey) with Anna May Wong
• Wives Under Suspicion (1938; directed by James Whale) with Warren William and Frank Morgan
• Disbarred (1939; directed by Robert Florey) with Robert Preston
• My Favorite Wife (1940; directed by Garson Kanin) with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant
• Women in Bondage (1943) with Nancy Kelly
• The Plainsman and the Lady (1946)
  
• Calendar Girl (1947)
  
• The Inside Story (1948)