Patsy Garrett Biography

Fast Facts

• Was honored with the Palm Springs Desert Theater League Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004
• Won the Young Artist Foundation's lifetime achievement award for former child stars in 1981
• Born to vaudevillians known as Mason & Gwynne, she started out as a radio performer at the age of 7
• Was an original member Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians and appeared on Waring's "Pleasure Time" radio show during the 1940s
• Best known for appearing in a series of Purina Cat Chow commercials in the 1970s and for playing Mrs․ Gilchrist in "The Trouble with Girls" opposite Elvis Presley
• Had recurring TV roles as Florence Fowler in "Nanny and the Professor" and as Miss Hogarth in "Room 222," and also played the housekeeper Mary Gruber in the "Benji" film series
• Did voice-over work for Hanna-Barbera cartoons like "The Banana Splits Adventure Hour․"