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American actress (1918–1970)

Patricia Ellis (born Patricia Gene O'Brien; May 20, 1918 – March 26, 1970) was an American film actress from 1932 to 1939, who then had a brief singing career until 1941.

Early years

Born in Birmingham, Michigan,^[1][10][6] in 1918 (although she gave her year of birth to the Social Security Administration as 1920), Ellis was the eldest of four children born to Eugene Gladstone O'Brien, a Detroit insurance salesman, and his wife, Florence (née Calkins), who married on April 16, 1917.^{[11][12][13][14]} Ellis's younger siblings were Joseph, Eugene, and Margery.

Her parents divorced 12 years later, on April 19, 1929, when Patricia was 10 years old, reportedly "with the understanding that during the summer months the children ... were to remain with their mother and the father was to keep them during the school year".^[9][15] She was later known a