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(Patricia Farr)
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| 5 January 13 |
is born in Los Angeles of Irish descent to Lawrence and Grace Farr, nee Rutledge
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resides in Ogden, Utah. Her great-great-grandfather was Ogden's first mayor, Lorin Farr.
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her father dies
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works as an usherette at a Los Angeles movie theater when signed by Paramount
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| November 34 |
columnist Robin Coons reports: "Pretty Patricia Farr found a 'comic strip face' no drawback but a help. When they wanted to film a serial based on a comic strip, a casting director thought of Pat, who resembles the strip's pretty heroine. Playing the part put her in line for a role that may take her out of the 'just a stock girl' ranks."
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| August 35 |
a Hollywood column knows that "Henry Fonda, lunching with Spanish Bianca Visheer, got a note from blonde Patricia Farr, in the same dining room..."
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| February 37 |
signs a contract with Columbia and plans a vacation trip to Tabati after she finishes her current picture, Racing Luck
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| April 37 |
she and fellow starlet Rita Hayworth are pictured promoting the opening of the California swimming season with a cigarette smoking penguin at Hermosa Beach, California
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marries Walton Robert Mayo, casting director of Columbia Pictures
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| June 37 |
she and her husband are reported vacationing a few days at the Fay Warner cottage, Miner Lake. Waupaca Wisconsin
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| January 38 |
the press calls her a "Kansas City girl"
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| 23 February 48 |
as Patricia Farr, she dies at age 35 in Los Angeles. Mayo will die at age 53 in 1958 at his Hollywood Hills home.
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Sources:
The Ogden Standard-Examiner, The Evening Tribune, The Charleston Gazette, The Kansas City Star, Oshkosh Northwestern, www.Ancestry.com, pro.Corbis.com |
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