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Patsy Kelly
Actress
Female
Born
Jan 12, 1910
Hometown
United States
Died
Sep 24, 1981
Death Place
Woodland Hills, C...
Other Names
Kelly, Sarah Vero...
Patsy Kelly was an American stage and film comedic actress.
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CHILDHOOD
1910
Birth
Born on January 12, 1910.
TEENAGE
1928
18 Years Old
Kelly was born Sarah Veronica Rose Kelly in Brooklyn, New York to Irish immigrants, John and Delia Kelly, and made her Broadway debut in 1928.
TWENTIES
1930
20 Years Old
In 1930 and 1931, she performed for producer Earl Carroll in his popular Sketches and Vanities musicals.
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1933
23 Years Old
Kelly, like other New York actors, made her screen debut in a Vitaphone short subject filmed there. In 1933 producer Hal Roach hired Kelly to co-star with Thelma Todd in a series of short-subject comedies. (Kelly replaced ZaSu Pitts, who left Roach after a salary dispute.) The Todd-Kelly shorts cemented Patsy Kelly's image: a brash, wisecracking woman who frequently punctured the pomposity of other characters.
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1935
25 Years Old
Thelma Todd died in 1935, and Kelly finished out the series, first with Pert Kelton, then with Lyda Roberti.
1938
28 Years Old
Patsy Kelly then moved into the more ambitious world of feature films, often playing working-class character roles in comedies and musicals. One of her memorable roles was as Etta, the cook, in the five Academy Awards-nominated 1938 comedy movie Merrily We Live.
THIRTIES
1943
33 Years Old
Offscreen, Kelly's unabashed lifestyle resulted in loud ejections from cocktail lounges and restaurants. On occasion she would frankly disclose, in public and with typical candor, to being a "dyke". By 1943 movie producers had distanced themselves from loose-cannon Kelly, and she could find work only at Producers Releasing Corporation, the smallest and cheapest of the movie studios.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
She returned to Broadway in 1971 in the revival of No, No, Nanette with fellow hoofers Ruby Keeler and Helen Gallagher.
1976
66 Years Old
Kelly appeared as the housekeeper Mrs. Schmauss in the 1976 film Freaky Friday which starred Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris.
1979
69 Years Old
Her final movie appearance came in the 1979 Disney comedy The North Avenue Irregulars, also co-starring Harris, along with Cloris Leachman, Edward Herrmann and Karen Valentine.
1981
72 Years Old
Kelly died in 1981 at the age of 71 in Woodland Hills, California of cancer.
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