Patricia Morison
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American actress and singer who played the villainous Hilda Courtney in Dressed to Kill (1946), the last of the Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films. She later became a Broadway star, originating the lead in Kiss Me, Kate. Born 1915, died 2018.
Acted In
Mystery, Crime
The last of the fourteen Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Three apparently ordinary music boxes, made by prisoners in Dartmoor and sold at auction, turn out to hide a coded message pointing to a fortune in stolen Bank of England plates. A collector who buys one of the boxes is murdered, and Holmes and Watson race a coolly ruthless woman, Hilda Courtney, to recover the other two before she cracks the code. Patricia Morison plays the villain, one of the series' most memorable, against Rathbone's weary, finally retiring Holmes. Roy William Neill produced and directed his final film before his death later that year. Released in 1946, the film is in the public domain in the United States.
Mystery · Crime
Dressed to Kill
1946 - as Hilda Courtney
Adventure, Romance
Jungle pulp from Screen Guild Pictures. Jean Preston (Patricia Morison) flies to Africa to find her missing fiancé, last seen hunting ivory on a safari that vanished into forbidden territory. With safari guide Gary Lambert (Robert Lowery) and comic-relief cook Gabby (J. Edward Bromberg), she penetrates the jungle realm of Zita, the Amazon queen — a white goddess ruling a tribe that traffics in enslaved men. Cheap, fast, and unabashedly lurid, it is Poverty Row adventure filmmaking at its most shameless, padded with stock wildlife footage. Its copyright was not renewed; it is in the public domain in the United States.
Adventure · Romance
Queen of the Amazons
1947 - as Jean Preston