Elizabeth Patterson

An irony: Betsy's brother's widow married the older brother of the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. She married twice, with her second marriage lasting until her death in Honolulu, Hawaii from lung cancer. She is buried in the Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland. During the 1940s the quality of her roles steadily decreased and in 1947 she retired. Betsy returned to Baltimore with her son, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte. Her most widely seen performances were in Double Wedding (1937), in which she was billed third in the cast credits behind William Powell and Myrna Loy, and The Marx Brothers film At The Circus (1939). Jerome gave in to his brother, returned to the French Navy and married a German princess. Rice never became a major figure in films, but achieved popularity in a number of screen pairings with Robert Young.

She gave birth to a son in 1805, in London. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Rice became an actress during the early 1930s and after several Broadway roles, eventually made her way to Hollywood. Blonde, pretty and wholesome, Rice was cast as the reliable girlfriend in several MGM films, and during the 1930s, MGM gradually provided her with more substantial roles, occasionally in prestige productions. Jerome returned to France with Betsy but she was denied landing in continental Europe. Florence Rice (February 14, 1911 - February 23, 1974) was a American film actress. Jerome's brother Napoleon ordered his brother back to France and had the marriage annulled. They were married on December 24, 1803, at a ceremony presided over by the Archbishop of Baltimore.

He was a Catholic, and the wealthiest man in Maryland after Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Elizabeth's father, William, had been born in Ireland and came to North America prior to the American Revolutionary War. Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte (1785-1879), known as "Betsy", was the daughter of a Baltimore, Maryland merchant, and was the first wife of Jerome Bonaparte, and sister-in-law of Emperor Napoleon I of France.