Miller, Patsy Ruth (1904–1995)

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Miller, Patsy Ruth (1904–1995)

American actress in silent films and early talkies. Born Patricia Ruth Miller, June 22, 1904, in St. Louis, MO; died July 16, 1995, in Palm Desert, CA; sister of Winston Miller; m. Tay Garnett (director), 1929 (div. 1933); m. John Lee Mahin (screenwriter); m. Effingham S. Deans (died 1985).

Appeared as Esmeralda in Lon Chaney's Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923); other films include Camille (with Valentino and Nazimova), Omar the Tentmaker, This is Paris, Painting the Town, Beautiful but Dumb and Quebec; wrote short stories, radio scripts, and a novel, The Flanagan Girl (1939).

See also autobiography My Hollywood—When Both of Us Were Young (O'Raghailligh, 1988).

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