Virginia Patton Dies: Last ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ Adult Cast Member Was 97
deadline.comVirginia Patton, who played George Bailey’s sister-in-law in the holiday staple It’s A Wonderful Life, died in an assisted living facilty on Aug.
18. She was 97.Patton was Ruth Dakin Bailey in the 1946 film, married to war hero Harry Bailey. Her most prominent scene was at the Bedford Falls train station, when she meets George and Uncle Billy for the first time.Virginia Ann Patton was born in Cleveland on June 25, 1925.
Raised in Portland, Oregon, she went to Los Angeles after high school graduation to pursue an acting career.She signed with Warner Bros.
and made her movie debut in the musical Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943), starring Eddie Cantor, and appeared the films Janie (1944), Hollywood Canteen (1944) and Jack Benny’s The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945).Patton, a niece of World War II General George Patton, came to It’s a Wonderful Life director Frank Capra’s attention via a USC play.
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