From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMary Elizabeth Patterson (November 22, 1874 – January 31, 1966) was an American theatre, film, and television character actress who gained popular recognition late in her career playing the elderly neighbor Matilda Trumbull on the television comedy series I Love Lucy.In 1926, at the age of 51, Patterson was cast in her first movie, a silent film, The Boy Friend. Transitioning successfully into the era of talkies, she remained a very busy actress in Hollywood throughout the 1930s, averaging more than five films a year during that decade, usually in supporting roles. A few of her screen credits at that time include Tarnished Lady; Husbands Holiday; A Bill of Divorcement; So Big!; The Story of Temple Drake; Hold Your Man; Dinner at Eight; High, Wide, and Handsome; and No Man of Her Own. She also appeared in the role of Susan in two adaptations of John Willards popular play The Cat and the Canary The Cat Creeps in 1930 and The Cat and the Canary in 1939.Patterson continued to perform frequently in the 1940s, when she was cast in more than 30 additional films. Among her notable roles is her 1949 portrayal of the heroic character Eunice Habersham in the groundbreaking racial crime drama Intruder in the Dust, a film based on the William Faulkner novel of the same name and set in the Deep South. Although she would appear in a few more feature films in the 1950s, such as Washington Story and Pal Joey, Patterson by then began to focus her work increasingly on roles in the rapidly expanding medium of television.In 1952, at the age of 77, Patterson made her first appearance on the hit CBS-TV sitcom I Love Lucy in the episode The Marriage License. Her character on I Love Lucy proved to be so popular among viewers, as well as useful to the writers of the series, that she continued in the role for three more years, often serving in episode storylines as a convenient babysitter for Little Ricky.Prior to, during, and after her work on I Love Lucy, Patterson appeared in many other American television series during the 1950s and early 1960s. Her first credited performance on the small screen was in March 1950 in The Walking Stick, a teleplay on the NBC anthology series The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre. During the 11 years after that initial televised performance to her final role on television in 1961, she portrayed characters in a variety of other series, including Pulitzer Prize Playhouse, Studio One in Hollywood, General Electric Theater, Stage 7, Lux Video Theatre, Crossroads, The Star and the Story, The Adventures of Jim Bowie, Adventures of Superman, New York Confidential, 77 Sunset Strip, Johnny Stacatto, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Playhouse 90, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, and The New Breed.Patterson, who never married, lived at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel during her 35-year film and television career.. On January 31, 1966, she died at age 91 in Los Angeles of complications from pneumonia. Her gravesite is in Savannah Cemetery in her hometown in Tennessee.
Aunt Charlotte Waring
Film 1945
First Aunt
Film 1932
Mrs. Caroline Reid
Film 1931
Aunt Hedwige
Film 1938
Jessie
Film 1944
Grandma Sherwood
Film 1942
Mrs. Casey
Film 1957
Annie
Film 1944
Aunt Jennie
Film 1933
Martha - Libby's Aunt
Film 1944
Aunt Emma
Film 1940
Mrs. Randall
Film 1932
Mrs. Fisher
Film 1943
'Ma' Miller
Film 1934
Ada Lester
Film 1941
Mrs. MacGregor
Film 1939
Aunt Susan
Film 1939
Grandma Cortlandt
Film 1937
Miss Eunice Habersham
Film 1949
Aunt Kate Barnaby
Film 1936
Sarah
Film 1941
Mrs. Perkins
Film 1939
Tabitha Singleton
Film 1950
Eva
Film 1942
Cora Pugmire
Film 1932
Aunt Olivia
Film 1940
Ma Brannan
Film 1936
Catherine Dennison
Film 1947
Mrs. Daisy Beebe aka Mother Beebe
Film 1938
Mrs. Gilley
Film 1947
Mary Raff
Film 1955
Rebecca
Film 1940
Aunt Blanche
Film 1938
Nellie
Film 1940
Emma Haller
Film 1930
Mrs. Sompter
Film 1946
Juliet Mitchell
Film 1932
Miss Dee
Film 1952
Miss Crackenwald
Film 1932
Maggie Ambler
Film 1940
Grandmother Lee
Film 1938
Mrs. Tobias Greene
Film 1937
Aunty Doe
Film 1932
Mrs. Lippett
Film 1931
Aunt Lily Lou Bethany
Film 1941
Mary Cherry
Film 1935
Mlle. Prefere
Film 1935
Mrs. Courtney
Film 1931
Mrs. Finch
Film 1958
Mrs. Cullen
Film 1932
Elvira Ward
Film 1932
Aunt Blanche
Film 1939
Schoolteacher (uncredited)
Film 1931
Miss Tuttle
Film 1933
Ma Pepperall
Film 1928
Sarah Hutchins
Film 1936
Miss Copeland
Film 1933
Mrs. Harper
Film 1926
Becky Tilden
Film 1940
Mrs. Bartholomey
Film 1926
Cora
Film 1948
Vergie
Film 1931
Aunt Ella
Film 1935
Mrs. Ellie Martin
Film 1936
Aunt Blanche
Film 1939
Susan (edited from "The Cat Creeps")
Film 1932
Vilda Cummins
Film 1936
Miss Spring
Film 1947
Mrs. Elvira Ward
Film 1937
Mrs. Daly
Film 1942
Aunt Tillie
Film 1939
Grandma Holland
Film 1937
Sarah
Film 1929
Film 1957
Margaret
Film 1942
Mary, Cook
Film 1933
Mrs. Tubby (uncredited)
Film 1932
Mrs. Goldfarb
Film 1930
Annabelle Dinwiddie
Film 1942
Aunt Priscilla Wakely
Film 1950
Aunt Patricia Banning
Film 1933
Aunt Polly
Film 1955
Cousin Emma
Film 1946
Elinor's Aunt
Film 1933
Lydia
Film 1933
Grandma
Film 1942
Ada Smith
Film 1938
Mrs. Tebbit (uncredited)
Film 1932
Sarah Martin
Film 1930
Susan
Film 1930
Baroness Von Schwedel (uncredited)
Film 1931
Aunt March
Film 1950
Aunt March
Film 1950
Lizzie
Film 1933
Mrs. Adams
Film 1953
Tv 1958
Madame Elaine
Tv 1953
Tv 1959
Tv 1958
Dr. Gilley
Tv 1950
Tv 1952
Tv 1956
Mrs. Couche
Tv 1952
Tv 1955
Tv 1959
Mrs. Melvane
Tv 1960
Mrs. Sargent
Tv 1950
Ma / Mother Baker
Tv 1952