Career
She made her Broadway debut in 1947"s The Druid Circle. In 1952, she played Helen Sherman in The Seven Year Itch. Her first feature movie was the 1953 film Taxi.
Other film credits include The Buddy Holly Story, All of Maine, and An Affair to Remember.
Patterson"s television credits included Nichols, in which she played a cantankerous elderly matriarch, The Governor & Josip Juraj, and as Eleanor Dupres in V, which she reprised in V: The Final Battle. She made guest appearances on Appointment with Adventure, The Defenders, Ben Casey, Maude, Ironside, Charlie"s Angels, Barnaby Jones, The Dukes of Hazzard, The Waltons, The Rockford Files, and Saint Elsewhere.
On December 14, 2010, Patterson died from complications from a broken hip at age 90.