Shirley Patterson

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Shirley Patterson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies
Movie Self - (archive footage)
1960
Maigret
TV show Maid
1958
It! The Terror from Beyond Space
Movie Ann Anderson
1957
The Land Unknown
Movie Margaret 'Maggie' Hathaway
1956
World Without End
Movie Elaine
1954
The Silver Chalice
Movie Poppaea (uncredited)
1954
The Long Wait
Movie Carol Shay (as Shawn Smith)
1954
The French Line
Movie Elsie (uncredited)
1952
Four Star Playhouse
TV show Betty Maxwell
1947
Black Hills
Movie Janet Hadley
1946
Stars Over Texas
Movie Terry Lawrence
1946
Driftin' River
Movie J.C. Morgan
1946
Tumbleweed Trail
Movie Robin Ryan
1946
The Harvey Girls
Movie Harvey Girl (uncredited)
1945
Keep Your Powder Dry
Movie WAC Brooks
1945
Between Two Women
Movie Nurse Thorsen