- Daughter of Confederate soldier 'E. D. Patterson' who served in Co. D, 9th Alabama Inf. and who later became a judge.
- Miss Patterson was also asked by novelist William Faulkner to play the elderly female lead in the movie made of his book, "Intruder In the Dust."
- Selected by writer Booth Tarkington personally to perform in his Broadway production of "The Intimate Strangers" in 1921.
- Biography in "Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties" by Axel Nissen.
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