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Shirley Patterson

Acting Born Dec 26, 1922 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 24 credits

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Shirley Patterson, sometimes billed as Shawn Smith, (December 26, 1922 – April 4, 1995) was a Canadian born B-movie actress of the 1940s and 1950s.

Patterson began her acting career after being a beauty contestant in pageants in California in 1940. She graduated from the Mar-Ken School in Sherman Oaks, California in 1941, and shortly thereafter she signed a contract with Columbia Pictures. Her career spanned forty films, a small quantity of television appearances, and a serial.

A beautiful woman in her youth, Patterson played the role of heroine in the 1943 fifteen chapter Batman serial. In 1944 she starred in The Vigilantes Ride alongside Russell Hayden and Bob Wills. In 1946 she accompanied Eddie Dean and Roscoe Ates in the film Driftin River, and starred with them again that same year in Tumbleweed Trail. Two of her last films was the 1957 movie The Land Unknown, and the 1958 Sci-Fi film It! The Terror from Beyond Space, which also starred Ray "Crash" Corrigan who played a monster from outer space.

Patterson had a long fight with cancer in her later years, and died in 1995 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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Known for

Four Star Playhouse

as Betty Maxwell

Maigret

as Maid
Film

World Without End

as Elaine
Film

It! The Terror from Beyond Space

as Ann Anderson

Full filmography

  • Four Star Playhouse (1952) as Betty Maxwell
  • Maigret (1960) as Maid
  • Batman (1943) as Linda Page
  • The Harvey Girls (1946) as Harvey Girl (uncredited)
  • The Silver Chalice (1954) as Poppaea (uncredited)
  • World Without End (1956) as Elaine
  • The More the Merrier (1943) as Girl (uncredited)
  • The Land Unknown (1957) as Margaret 'Maggie' Hathaway
  • It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) as Ann Anderson
  • A Man's World (1942) as Nurse Bentley
  • The French Line (1954) as Elsie (uncredited)
  • Phony Express (1943) as Lola (bargirl)
  • The Long Wait (1954) as Carol Shay (as Shawn Smith)
  • Marriage Is a Private Affair (1944) as Mary Saunders
  • Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies (2021) as Self - (archive footage)
  • Lucky Legs (1942) as Chambermaid
  • Between Two Women (1945) as Nurse Thorsen
  • Dangerous Blondes (1943) as Bride (uncredited)
  • Destroyer (1943) as Bigbee's Girl (uncredited)
  • Law of the Northwest (1943) as Michele Darcy
  • A Maid Made Mad (1943) as Bellhop at Amazon Hotel for Women
  • Keep Your Powder Dry (1945) as WAC Brooks
  • Sabotage Squad (1942) as Miss Cole, secretary
  • Riders of the Northland (1942) as Sheila Taylor