Dorothy Patrick
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Dorothy Patrick (June 3, 1921-May 31, 1987) was a film actress and model. The striking blonde was billed under her birth name Dorothy Davis until she married hockey star Lynn Patrick. Dorothy Patrick, who was born in St. Boniface, Manitoba, Canada, appeared in a number of films in the 1940s and 1950s including High Wall (1947) with Robert Taylor, New Orleans (1947) with Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong, The Mighty McGurk (1947) with Wallace Beery, Follow Me Quietly (1949), and the Fritz Lang-directed House by the River (1950). Patrick's role got smaller in the 1950s, including a walk-ons in The Bad and the Beautiful and Singin' in the Rain in 1952. She eventually retired from films by the end of the decade.