Biography for
Patsy Ruth Miller More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

17 January 1904, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Date of Death

16 July 1995, Palm Desert, California, USA (heart failure)

Birth Name

Patricia Ruth Miller

Height

5' 2" (1.57 m)

Mini Biography

Leading lady in Hollywood silents and a few early talkies who retired in 1931.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Bill Takacs <kinephile@aol.com>

Spouse

Effingham Smith Deans	(1951 - 27 October 1986) (his death)
John Lee Mahin	(September 1937 - September 1946) (divorced)
Tay Garnett	(8 September 1929 - 18 September 1933) (divorced)

Trivia

Sister of Winston Miller.

Emerged from retirement for a single, quick cameo appearance with John Drew Barrymore in Quebec (1951).

WAMPAS Baby Star of 1922.

Interviewed in "Talking to the Piano Player: Silent Film Stars, Writers and Directors Remember" by Stuart Oderman (BearManor Media).

Mother of Timothy Mahin.

Grandmother of Christine Lee Mahin.

Perhaps best known for her role as Esmeralda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923/I) with Lon Chaney.

Lived with her brother and both her parents during her film career.

Protege of Alla Nazimova, whom she met during a party in Hollywood and helped the 16-year-old to get cast opposite Rudolph Valentino in Camille (1921).

After her acting career ended, she became a writer of short stories (for which she won three O Henry Awards), a novel ("That Flanagan Girl", 1939) and a book about Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, "Music in My Heart", which was produced as an original musical at the Adelphi Theatre on Broadway and ran for 124 performances (1947-1948).