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Pat Paterson (7 April, 1910 – 24 August, 1978) was an Anglo-Scottish film actress, born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Though she made over 20 films, she is most famous for being the wife of French-born actor Charles Boyer and for the death of their only child, Michael, at his own 21st birthday party. She was born Eliza Paterson on 7 April 1910 at No.74 Fitzgerald Street, Horton, a suburb of Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire. Her mother, Hannah Holroyd, was English, her father, John Robb Paterson, (b.1888, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland) was a Scottish. The Patersons had... MORE

Pat Paterson (7 April, 1910 – 24 August, 1978) was an Anglo-Scottish film actress, born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Though she made over 20 films, she is most famous for being the wife of French-born actor Charles Boyer and for the death of their only child, Michael, at his own 21st birthday party. She was born Eliza Paterson on 7 April 1910 at No.74 Fitzgerald Street, Horton, a suburb of Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire. Her mother, Hannah Holroyd, was English, her father, John Robb Paterson, (b.1888, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland) was a Scottish. The Patersons had been Merchant Navy sailors for several generations, but his own father, John Robb Paterson (1864–1918) had broken the mould by becoming a Master Baker in Fifeshire, so John moved down to the Bradford area in his mid-teens for work, and met Hannah Holroyd. They married in 1908, and their eldest child, Eliza's older brother John, was born 9 January 1909. Their third and final child, Andrew Paterson, was born in 1920, also in Bradford. From infancy, Eliza was called Cis (to rhyme with kiss) or Cissie Paterson, a traditional English nickname given to girls named Elizabeth or some variant thereof (Eliza, LESS