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“He wrote, ‘I just knew you’d be a wonderful mother with three little bambinos and a wonderful husband.Sen. “I have a beautiful letter that wrote me because I kept in touch with him,” she said. In a 2012 interview, Patton noted that Capra asked her to think twice about giving up show business, but she said she was comfortable with her decision. Patton served as a docent at the University of Michigan’s Museum of Art and president and director of the Patton Corp., an investment and real estate holding company. They were married for 69 years until his death in 2018. Moss in 1949, and they had three children. She left Hollywood and moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, after marrying automotive executive Cruse W.
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Patton had the female lead in The Burning Cross (1947), a movie about the Ku Klux Klan, and Black Eagle (1948), a Western, then retired from acting following a supporting turn in The Lucky Stiff (1949). Since It’s a Wonderful Life has aired multiple times every year around Christmas for decades, Patton often joked that “I’ve probably been in more homes than even Santa Claus.” “I read for him, and he signed me,” she said in 2013, adding that she was “the only girl he ever signed in his whole career.” Her contract at Warners had elapsed, and all the other adult castmembers would work on loan from other studios.įrom left: Todd Karns, Virginia Patton, Jimmy Stewart and Thomas Mitchell in 1946’s ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ Courtesy Everett Collection

He was casting It’s a Wonderful Life, the first film he would make for his new Liberty Films production company. De Mille, while she was attending USC, and that put her on the radar of Capra. She signed with Warner Bros., made her movie debut in the musical Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943), starring Eddie Cantor and an all-star cast, and appeared in small roles in other films including Janie (1944), Hollywood Canteen (1944) and Jack Benny’s The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945).Ī niece of World War II general George Patton, she had starred in a play written by William C. She was raised in Portland, Oregon, where she graduated from Jefferson High School in 1942, then made her way to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. Virginia Ann Patton was born in Cleveland on June 25, 1925.

I was sitting there, ‘What am I going to do? I’m going to get the popcorn all over those gloves.’ … I thought, ‘Well, I’ll just pretend everybody eats buttered popcorn with their gloves on, and they all get butter on them.'” “We rehearsed it, and Frank didn’t say anything about it, his assistant didn’t say anything about it, the cameraman didn’t say anything about it. “And I was going to eat buttered popcorn with white gloves? I had a hat, a suit and white gloves, I was coming to meet my new in-laws,” she recalled in 2016. Bernard Shaw, CNN's First Chief News Anchor, Dies at 82
