Gail Patrick

Gail Patrick was an American film actress and television producer. Often cast as the bad girl or the other woman, she appeared in more than 60 feature films between 1932 and 1948, notably My Man Godfrey , Stage Door and My Favorite Wife . After retiring from acting she became, as Gail Patrick Jackson, president of Paisano Productions and executive producer of the Perry Mason television series . She was one of the first women producers, and the only female executive producer in prime time during the years Perry Mason was on the air. She served two terms as vice president of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and as president of its Hollywood chapterthe first woman to serve in a leadership capacity in the academy, and its only female leader until 1983.

Gail Patrick was born Margaret LaVelle Fitzpatrick on June 20, 1911, in Birmingham, Alabama. Her parents were Lawrence C. Fitzpatrick, a municipal fireman, and LaVelle Fitzpatrick.

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