Patricia "Honeychile" Wilder
Patricia Anne zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (née Patricia Wilder) (September 8, 1913 – August 11, 1995) was an American film actress of the late 1930s.
Patricia Hohenlohe | |
|---|---|
| Born | Patricia Wilder September 8, 1913 Macon, Georgia, U.S. |
| Died | August 11, 1995 (aged 81) New York City, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouses | Robin Harris
(m. 1935, divorced)Albert Cernadas
(m. 1941, divorced)Prince Alexander zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst
(m. 1951; died 1984) |
Early life
Wilder was born on September 8, 1913, in Macon, Georgia. She was a daughter of Oscar Owen Wilder and Laura Bryant (née Watson) Wilder. She grew up with 12 brothers and sisters.[1][2]
Career
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.
Later years and death
She married reporter Robin (Curly) Harris in 1935.[3][4] Her second husband was Albert Cernadas, an Argentine millionaire, whom she wed in 1941.[5]
On 21 May 1951 in Greenwich, Connecticut, she married her third husband, Prince Alexander zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst.[6] He was a son of Austrian diplomat Alfred zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst and the former Catharine Britton of Washington D.C.[7][8] They remained married until his death in 1984.[9]
Honeychile died in New York City in 1995.
References
- "She was born in Macon but died in New York City as a princess". macon. 2016-11-15. Retrieved 2020-07-01.
- Robert McG. Thomas Jr. (20 August 1995). "Honeychile Wilder, 76, Ex-Showgirl and Princess". The New York Times. Retrieved October 24, 2016.
- Oscar Levant, Memoirs of an Amnesiac, p. 117
- "Rumor". The Scranton Tribune. 1 November 1935. p. 13. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- "'HONEYCHILE' WILDER IS BRIDE OF PRINCE". The Bridgeport Post. 7 May 1951. p. 33. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- "TROTH ANNOUNCED OF MISS O'CONNOR; Twin of Countess Crespi to Be Bride of Alexander Hohenlohe, Who Is a Former Prince". The New York Times. 26 February 1950. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- Times, Special to The New York (15 December 1916). "MISS BRITTON WED TO AUSTRIAN PRINCE; Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Britton Marries Alfred zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst. HE IS EMBASSY ATTACHE Mgr. Russell Officiates at Simple Ceremony Attended by Diplomats of the Central Powers". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- "AMERICAN PRINCESS IS DEAD IN VIENNA; Former Catharine Britton of Washington Wed to Prince Alfred Hohenlohe in 1916. WAS WAR NURSE IN FRANCE Death Was Caused by Sudden illness Resulting in Paralysis of theLungs--Operation Unavailing". The New York Times. 25 June 1929. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- "Obituary for Prince Hohenlohe (Aged 71)". The Orlando Sentinel. 14 January 1984. p. 22. Retrieved 13 April 2021.