- Her first husband, Robert Howard Cobb, was the owner of the famous Brown Derby Restaurant. She performed on stage with the Lux Radio Theater at the Music Box Theater (now the Henry Fonda Music Box Theater), which was just around the corner on Hollywood Blvd. After 1938 she only had to walk across the street when the show moved to the CBS Radio Theater (now the Ricardo Montalban Theater) on Vine Street. Mr. Cobb is immortalized as the inventor of the Cobb Salad.
- During the 1940s and 1950s she ran a children's clothing store and playground from her home, catering to other Hollywood celebrities. All clothes sold were made from her own designs.
- Joined a college sorority, Delta Zeta. In her will, she bequeathed $1 million to her sisterhood. It is the largest amount they have been awarded.
- She gave birth prematurely to a set of twins during her second marriage - they died shortly after birth.
- She was afraid of the camera and never watched herself on screen.
- She got into movies when she became involved with Paramount's talent search to find an actress to play the Panther Woman in Island of Lost Souls (1932), a part that went to Kathleen Burke, a young--and inexperienced--fashion model. Studio executives were suitably impressed with her screen test opposite Gary Cooper that they offered her a standard contract. The independent Patrick renegotiated Burke's weekly salary from $50 to $75 and stipulated that she not have to pose for cheesecake publicity photos.
- Got her first screen role in MGM's No More Ladies (1935), in part with the help of Joan Crawford. Crawford lent her her hairdresser and dressed her in one of Adrian's gowns, borrowed by Crawford for the test. Patrick got the part.
- Was a diabetic.
- Has a building named after her on the campus of Columbia College Hollywood, located in Tarzana, CA. Columbia College Hollywood is a 4-year private film college, at which Patrick was a member of the film school's board of trustees. She funded the facility through her estate.
- In 1957 formed, with Erle Stanley Gardner and Cornwell Jackson, Paisano Productions, which produced the Perry Mason (1957) TV series.
- I had the fortune to be her neighbor in the late 1960s. I was at her home many times, and learned a great deal about Mrs. Jackson. One bit of information that she told me was about the Perry Mason show. She signed a contract with CBS to be paid up to an annual maximum of $600,000. She told me that CBS owed her millions of dollars, but held to the contract and paid her the $600,000 yearly. She was a very wise woman. She invested in oil wells in Pennsylvania, and made much more money that the Perry Mason show would pay her. At the time I knew her, she was President of the Screen Actors Guild in Hollywood.
- One of the six "Paramount Proteges" of 1935. The others were Wendy Barrie, Grace Bradley, Katherine DeMille, Gertrude Michael, and Ann Sheridan.
- She was a lifelong Democrat.
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