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Patsy Kelly (born Sarah Veronica Rose Kelly; January 12, 1910 – September 24, 1981) was an American actress. She is known for her role as the brash, wisecracking sidekick to Thelma Todd in a series of short comedy films produced by Hal Roach in the 1930s.
Patsy Kelly was a vaudeville and Broadway performer who became a popular comedy actress in the 1930s. She starred in films with Thelma Todd, dated Tallulah Bankhead, and won a Tony award in 1971.
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- Brooklyn, New York, USA
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- Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Patsy Kelly was a comedienne who starred in vaudeville, Broadway and movies. She was known for her wisecracks, her lesbian relationship with Wilma Cox and her role in Rosemary's Baby.
- January 12, 1910
- September 24, 1981
Patsy Kelly was a maverick actress who starred in B-movies like Danger! Women at Work, a comedy about women in the workforce during World War II. She was openly gay and defied the social norms of Hollywood, but faced marginalization and censorship.
Mar 15, 2021 · This is the original documentary of the life and career of comedienne and actress Patsy Kelly. From Vaudeville to Broadway, Hollywood and television, she was...
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Sep 26, 1981 · Patsy Kelly, the pert, rumpled farceur of knockabout movie comedies of the 1930's and 40's who won a Tony Award for her performance as an irascible, wise-cracking maid in the 1971...
Jul 3, 2013 · In the movie, the brilliant Patsy Kelly fills in the rest. A Brooklyn-born Hollywood golden-ager who tickled audiences in a series of early-sound-era Hal Roach Studios Vitaphone shorts with her fellow comedian Thelma Todd, Kelly stole scenes in more than twenty features from the mid-1930s to 1943.
