Lee Patrick

Patrick died suddenly from a heart seizure on the day before her 81st birthday, at Laguna Beach, California. Redgrave was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, although she later became an American citizen. Starring George Segal as Sam Spade Jr., forced to continue his father's work, and to keep his increasingly sarcastic secretary, the film attempted to turn its revered predecessor into a comedy, and was a box office failure. She has written a play, The Mandrake Root, in which she will star if her cancer treatments allow. Her final film role was a reprise of her Effie Perine character in a reworking of the Sam Spade story titled The Black Bird (1975). Recently, Redgrave announced that she has breast cancer. Among her other films are Now, Voyager (1942), Mrs Parkington (1944), Mildred Pierce (1945), Caged (1950), There's No Business Like Show Business (1954), Vertigo (1958), Auntie Mame (1958), Pillow Talk (1959), and Summer and Smoke (1961). The assistant eventually married, then divorced, Redgrave and Clark's son Benjamin.

As Effie Perine, the loyal and quick-thinking secretary of Humphrey Bogart's Sam Spade, Patrick created one of her most enduring film characterisations. In 2000, Redgrave divorced her husband of 33 years, producer John Clark, when it was revealed that he had fathered a child with his assistant. Over the next several years she played numerous supporting roles, without attracting much attention until she appeared in The Maltese Falcon (1941). In 1998 she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Gods and Monsters. She remained in Hollywood, and appeared in Border Cafe (1937). From 1979 to 1981, she starred in the American television series House Calls. Her disappointments continued when she was considered and then rejected for the lead role in Stella Dallas in favour of Barbara Stanwyck. Other films include The Happy Hooker, Every Little Crook and Nanny, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask), The Big Bus, Sunday Lovers and Morgan Stewart's Coming Home.

Patrick had made her film debut in 1929 but since that time had not appeared in a single film, and RKO Studios were reluctant to allow an unknown actress to take a part in a film which they were beginning to realise had great potential. She has twice been nominated for Tony Awards. Eventually the part was rewritten and split from a single character into two characters which were played by Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers. She has worked on television, the London stage, and Broadway. Her success in Stage Door (1937) led her to Hollywood to reprise her role in the film version. In 1966 she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Georgy Girl. For more than a decade she was constantly employed and established herself as a popular actress. Lynn Redgrave's first film role was in a small part in Tom Jones in 1963.

Born in New York, New York, Patrick began acting on Broadway in 1924. She is the aunt of Natasha Richardson, Joely Richardson and Jemma Redgrave. Lee Patrick (November 22, 1901 – November 21, 1982) was an American theater and film actress. Her parents are Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, her brother is Corin Redgrave and her sister is Vanessa Redgrave. Her difficulties in establishing a career as a leading actress were often attributed to a long standing fued Patrick had with gossip columnist Louella Parsons, about whom Patrick's husband, a journalist, had written very unfavourably. Born Lynn Rachel Redgrave in London, she is a member of the famous acting Redgrave family. Shaving a decade off her age was a decision she made early in her career, and at the time of her death, many of her friends believed that she was in her early seventies. Lynn Redgrave (born March 8, 1943) is a British actress.

After her death it was discovered that she was ten years older than she had ever revealed.