Virginia Garrett Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Virginia "Patsy" Garrett (born May 4, 1921, Atlantic City, New Jersey) is an American actress and singer. Beginning her career as a radio performer at the age of seven, Garrett is best known for her seven years on Fred Waring's "Pleasure Time" radio show during the 1940s, as well as for her recurring television and film roles; as nosy neighbor Mrs. Florence Fowler on Nanny and the Professor (1970–1971), school secretary Miss Hogarth on Room 222 (1972–1973) and as Mary Gruber in the Benji series of motion pictures beginning in 1974.
It's way better to be a second star than to be the top dog a lot of times.
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Being a character actor means you don't have to keep up your beauty while other girls are lucky to get 10 years out of work. When you get to a certain age and there's nothing more for you, character actors can work up into their 70s and 80s.
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According to an in-depth article by Richard Sackley for Classic Images (January 2010), her birth name coincided with a hospital visit by Jack Dempsey, the former World Heavyweight Champion. It seems that Dempsey caught a glimpse of the newborn being carried by a nurse and declared, "Boy, there's a patsy." The nurse relayed the story to Patsy's mother. Although the baby's legal name was Virginia, she was called Patsy thereafter.
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Her parents, Carl Mason Garrett and Fredda Gwynne Oxley" were vaudevillians ("Mason & Gwynne"). She was raised by her father's parents in Richmond, Virginia.
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Had her own children's show in Richmond, Virginia at age 7.
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A singer before she became an actress, she sang with Fred Waring's radio show for five years (1938-1943). She helped popularize the standard Cole Porter tune "Begin the Beguine".
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Has two children, Jeff and Kathy.
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Retired to Palm Springs, California, where she has continued to perform in local theater productions.
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Her late husband, Alexander Kokinacis, was a composer who wrote under the name Nick Alexander.
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Did voicework for Saturday morning Hanna-Barbera cartoons in the late 1960s.
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Lively, ever-beaming character actress who played the role of Mary Gruber in the "Benji" dog film series.
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