Patricia Knight (born Marjorie Heinzen;[1] April 28, 1915[citation needed] – October 26, 2004) was an American actress who appeared in a few movies in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Patricia Knight | |
|---|---|
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| Born | Marjorie Heinzen April 28, 1915 |
| Died | October 26, 2004 (aged 89) Hemet, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1947–1954 |
| Spouses | Niels Larson
(m. 1954; died 1971)David Wright
(died 1996) |
| Children | 1 |
Career
editIn 1949, Knight and her husband, Cornel Wilde, acted at Cape Playhouse in a production of Western Wind.[1] The same year they costarred in the Sam Fuller written and Douglas Sirk directed film noir Shockproof for Columbia.
Personal life
editAfter meeting actor Cornel Wilde at a producer's office in 1936,[1] the couple married in Elkton, Maryland, on September 1, 1937. They had one daughter, Wendy, and divorced on August 30, 1951.[2] The family lived at Country House on Deep Canyon Road, Los Angeles.[3] She married Danish businessman Niels Larson on October 24, 1954, and moved with him to Europe.[citation needed]
She and Larson returned to the United States in 1969. Larson died in 1971. She later married building adviser David Wright, and moved with him to Hemet, California, where he died on May 22, 1996. Patricia Knight died in Hemet in 2004, aged 89.[citation needed]
A Democrat, Wright supported the campaign of Adlai Stevenson during the 1952 presidential election.[4]
Filmography
edit- The Fabulous Texan (1947) as Josie Allen
- Roses are Red (1947) as Jill Carney
- Shockproof (1949) as Jenny Marsh[5]
- The Second Face (1950) as Lynn Hamilton
- The Magic Face (1951) as Vera Janus
- The Lone Wolf (1954) as Janice Avon
References
edit- ^ a b c Durgin, Cyrus (August 7, 1949). "Cornell Wilde and Wife Patricia Knight Back on the Stage Again". The Boston Globe. p. 94. Retrieved September 19, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Cornel Wilde Divorced by Patricia Knight". The Los Angeles Times. August 31, 1951. p. 19. Retrieved September 19, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Search | 1950 Census".
- ^ Motion Picture and Television Magazine, November 1952, page 33, Ideal Publishers
- ^ Lucia, Tony (reviewer). "TV AND ART FILMS: Oct. 5 to 11 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine." The Reading Eagle. October 5, 2008.
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