 Her first credited performance on the "small screen" was in March 1950 in "The Walking Stick", a teleplay on the NBC anthology series "The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre".During the 11 years after that initial televised performance to her final role on television in 1961, she portrayed characters in a variety of other series, including "Pulitzer Prize Playhouse", "Studio One in Hollywood", "General Electric Theater", "Stage 7", "Lux Video Theatre", "Crossroads", "The Star and the Story", "The Adventures of Jim Bowie", "Adventures of Superman", "New York Confidential", "77 Sunset Strip", "Johnny Stacatto", "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", "Playhouse 90", "The Barbara Stanwyck Show", and "The New Breed".Patterson, who never married, lived at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel during her 35-year film and television career.. On January 31, 1966, she died at age 91 in Los Angeles of complications from pneumonia.