Patricia Wilder

Princess Patricia Anne zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (née Wilder; September 8, 1913 – August 11, 1995) was an American film actress of the late 1930s.

Biography

Born in Macon, Georgia, Patricia Wilder grew up with 12 brothers and sisters.[1][2] She made her way to Hollywood via New York City by the mid-1930s to pursue a career in acting. She had first worked as a showgirl for Bob Hope while in New York City, in the Palace Theater.

She received her first film role in 1936, having a minor part alongside James Stewart in Speed. She followed this with two uncredited roles that same year, as well as a credited role alongside Gloria Stuart and Lee Tracy in Wanted! Jane Turner. She stayed in close alliance with Bob Hope, working for him on radio shows during her entire career, and had her first film role alongside him in the 1936 film Walking on Air.

She had two film appearances in 1937, the first in a minor role in the film New Faces of 1937, which starred Milton Berle and Joe Penner, among others, and the second in On Again-Off Again alongside Marjorie Lord and Robert Woolsey. In 1938 she had minor roles in four films, the biggest of which was My Lucky Star, starring Buddy Ebsen and Cesar Romero, along with a Shirley Temple film, Little Miss Broadway. Her last film was Bob Hope's Thanks for the Memory, starring Bob Hope and Shirley Ross. Dissatisfied with the path of her career, Wilder then retired from acting.

Later years and death

She was first married to Robin (Curly) Harris.[3] Her second husband was Albert Cernadas, an Argentine millionaire. On 21 May 1951 in Greenwich, Connecticut, she married her third husband, Prince Alexander zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, to whom she would remain married until his death in 1984. The actress turned royal died in New York City in 1995.

References
  1. "She was born in Macon but died in New York City as a princess". macon. 2016-11-15. Retrieved 2020-07-01.
  2. Robert McG. Thomas Jr. (20 August 1995). "Honeychile Wilder, 76, Ex-Showgirl and Princess". The New York Times. Retrieved October 24, 2016.
  3. Oscar Levant, Memoirs of an Amnesiac, p. 117
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