Patricia Collinge

In the 1960's, she acted in several episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962).

From 1947 to 1948, she starred as Lavinia Penniman in 'The Heiress' at the Biltmore Theatre, directed by Jed Harris. The play ran for 410 performances. On screen, she was noted for her work with Alfred Hitchcock.

Though uncredited, Patricia wrote some of the dialogue for this film, as well as for Lifeboat (1944), in which she did not appear as an actress.

She appeared as Emma Newton in Shadow of a Doubt (1943).

She appeared with Teresa Wright in three films, playing her aunt in The Little Foxes (1941), and her mother twice in Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and Casanova Brown (1944).

Originated the role of Birdie Hubbard in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes on Broadway in 1939, before recreating the role for the big screen two years later in The Little Foxes (1941), which was also her film debut. Her performance earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, but she lost to Mary Astor for The Great Lie (1941). The only other actors to recreate their roles from the original play were Charles Dingle, Dan Duryea, John Marriott and Carl Benton Reid.

Aside from being an actress, Collinge was a playwright, author, and columnist. In 1938, her play "Dame Nature", an adaptation of a French drama by André Birabeau was published. She also co-wrote (with Margalo Gillmore), "The B.O.W.S.", a play about the American Theatre Wing unit which performed "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" to soldiers in Italy and France during World War II, as well as "The Small Mosaics of Mr. and Mrs. Engel", a story of travel in Italy, for which she received a gold medal from the Italian government. Several of Collinge's short stories were published in the New Yorker and was also a contributor to the New York Times Book Review.

She was the first actress to play the enduringly popular character Pollyanna, though her performance was confined to the stage. She starred as Pollyanna in Catherine Chisholm Cushing's four-act adaptation of the novel, which opened at the Hudson Theatre on Broadway on September 18, 1916, and ran for 112 performances. The novel was later successfully adapted for film, most notably as Pollyanna (1920), starring Mary Pickford, and Pollyanna (1960), starring Hayley Mills.

She emigrated to the United States from England with her mother in 1907.

Irish-born stage actress, in London from 1904, on Broadway from 1908. After appearing as a flower girl in 'The Queen of the Moulin Rouge', she became a celebrated theatrical star of many classic plays by George Bernard Shaw, Henrik Ibsen, J. M. Barrie and others.