Patsy O'Leary
{{short description|American actress}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Patsy O'Leary
| birth_name = Patricia M. O'Day
| birth_date = September 8, 1910
| birth_place = County Cork, Ireland
| death_date =
| death_place =
| occupation = Actress
| spouse = Clement J. Joynt (m. 1930, div. 1936)
}}
Patsy O'Leary (born Patricia O'Day, September 8, 1910, date of death unknown) was an Irish-American actress known for her work on Mack Sennett comedies in the late 1920s and early 1930s.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/375654182/?terms=%22patsy+o%27leary%22|title=Gossip of Hollywood|last=Thomas|first=Dan|date=October 22, 1930|website=The Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer|language=English|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-05-08}}
Biography
O'Leary was born in County Cork, Ireland, to an Irish mother and a French father; the family relocated to Paris when O'Leary was a girl before heading to America and settling in Tacoma, Washington.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/520509602/?terms=%22patsy+o%27leary%22|title=Bobbed News of Talkieland|last=Thomas|first=Dan|date=December 8, 1930|website=The Madison Capital Times|language=English|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-05-08}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/224041205/?terms=%22patsy+o%27leary%22|title=Little Stories of Little Stars|last=|first=|date=December 23, 1930|website=The St. Cloud Times|language=English|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-05-08}} She got into acting as a child on Sennett's lot.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/274879242/?terms=%22patsy+o%27leary%22|title=Up the Ladder|last=|first=|date=November 15, 1930|website=The Honolulu Star-Bulletin|language=English|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-05-08}} She appeared in dozens of films over the course of her career (mostly comedies and Westerns) and also owned her own restaurant in Hollywood for a time.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/287328305/?terms=%22patsy+o%27leary%22|title=Owner Loses Job|last=|first=|date=November 22, 1930|website=The Newark Advertiser|language=English|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-05-08}} She married Dr. Clement J. Joynt in 1930 and appears to have retired from acting soon after. She divorced Joynt in 1936.{{cite news|title = Patsy O'Day Divorced|newspaper = The Scranton Republican|page = 1|date = October 28, 1936|url = https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37164185/oday_divorce/|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = October 17, 2019}} {{free access}}
Filmography
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- The Girl from Everywhere (1927)
- A Dumb Waiter (1928)
- Girl-Shy Cowboy (1928)
- The Swim Princess (1928)
- Love at First Flight (1928)
- Run, Girl, Run (1928)
- Isle of Lost Men (1928)
- Uppercut O'Brien (1929)
- The New Half back (1929)
- Clancy at the Bat (1929)
- A Hollywood Star (1929)
- The Golfers (1929)
- The Lunkhead (1929)
- The Constabule (1929)
- The Barber's Daughter (1929)
- Jazz Mamas (1929)
- Motoring Mamas (1929)
- Girl Crazy (1929)
- The Bees' Buzz (1929)
- The Campus Carmen (1929)
- A Hollywood Theme Song (1930)
- Racket Cheers (1930)
- Don't Bite Your Dentist (1930)
- Take Your Medicine (1930)
- Grandma's Girl (1930)
- Midnight Daddies (1930)
- The Bluffer (1930)
- Vacation Loves (1930)
- Average Husband (1930)
- Hello, Television (1930)
- Goodbye Legs (1930)
- The Chumps (1930)
- Campus Crushes (1930)
- Fat Wives for Thin (1930)
- Radio Kisses (1930)
- Honeymoon Zeppelin (1930)
- He Trumped Her Ace (1930)
- Bulls and Bears (1930)
- Half Holiday (1931)
- One More Chance (1931)
- I Surrender Dear (1931)
- Poker Widows (1931)
- The World Flier (1931)
- Too Many Husbands (1931)
- The Fainting Lover (1931)
- In Conference (1931)
- Just a Bear (1931)
- The Dog Doctor (1931)
- The College Vamp (1931)
- The Flirty Sleepwalker (1932)
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References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0641619}}
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Category:Year of death missing
Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:American film actresses
Category:American silent film actresses