Actress. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised in Mobile, Alabama. After playing banjo in a all-girl band at the age of twelve and then spending a few years as a vaudeville dancer, she relocated to New York City, where she received recognition in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1931. Her Ziegeld exposure fostered her move to Hollywood. Her career began in the era of early talkies after the silent movie era. Patricia was first married at the age of sixteen, and by 1932 had married her second husband, actor, producer William Cagney, brother of James Cagney. In 1947 she married Herbert Marshall and remained with him until her death in Santa Monica, California in 1958. Handle with Care in 1932 was her second film, and marked her debut since the altered and renamed Walking Down Broadway Hello, Sister! didn’t release until a year later. Handle With Care was well received and Patricia was named a WAMPAS Baby Star of 1932. Then in May 1933 Hello, Sister! was released to negative reviews and her career flattened. Over the next few years, she played the lead in several “B” pictures, including the Rin Tin Tin serial The Wolf Dog in 1933, Carnival Lady in 1934 and Here’s Flash Casey in 1938. She made her final film appearance in an uncredited role in the Laurel and Hardy’s Swiss Miss in 1938. There are two reason’s for her cause of death, one is chronic throat disease, the other stated is Lung Cancer. She died at the age of 45. (bio by: Shock)  Family links:  Spouses:  Charles J. Bennett (1889 – 1943)  William Jerome Cagney (1905 – 1988)  Herbert Marshall (1890 – 1966)