Patricia Firman Explained

Patricia Firman
Birth Place:	Australia
Death Place:	Sydney, Australia
Death Date:	(aged 58)
Occupation:	Model, actress, tv personality
Years Active:	1936–1974

Patricia Firman (1922 – June 1980) was an Australian model, actress and TV personality.

She began her career aged 14 when discovered by Cinesound Productions. She was a contender for the female lead in Forty Thousand Horsemen but lost to Betty Bryant.^[1]

She was an early panellist on the Beauty and the Beast TV show and had her own program Penthouse.

She died of cancer in June 1980^[2]

Select film credits

• 100,000 Cobbers (1942) – film
• Another Threshold (1942) – film^[3]
• Australia Is Like This (1944)
• Beauty and the Beast (1964–74)^[4]

Select theatre credits

• Mannequins (1938) – play^[5]
• Three Cornered Moon (1938) – play^[6]
• Spring Tide (1941) – play – Minerva Theatre, Sydney 1941^[7]
• The Wind and the Rain Theatre Royal, Sydney 1944
• The Maid of the Mountains – Theatre Royal, Adelaide 1945
• The Merry Widow – Theatre Royal, Adelaide 1945
• Dangerous Corner – Minerva Theatre, Sydney 1946
• Youth at the Helm – Minerva, Sydney 1946
• Sweetest and Lowest: A Revue – Minvera, Sydney 1947
• The Little Hut – Theatre Royal, Adelaide 1956
• Both Ends Meet – Theatre Royal, Adelaide 1956

External links

• • Pat Firman's Australian theatre credits at AusStage

Notes and References

1. News: Hollywood After Betty Bryant "Forty" Lead. . . Adelaide . 18 January 1941 . 14 March 2015 . 19 . National Library of Australia.
2. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19800718&id=JedUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=sJIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2833,976750 Obituary at The Age, 18 July 1980
3. News: "ANOTHER THRESHOLD". . . Sydney . 6 September 1942 . 14 March 2015 . 26 . National Library of Australia.
4. News: YOU WANTED TO KNOW. . . 26 May 1982 . 14 March 2015 . 154 . National Library of Australia.
5. News: BRYANT'S PLAYHOUSE—ONE-ACT PLAYS. . . 18 June 1938 . 14 March 2015 . 6 . National Library of Australia.
6. News: BRYANTS' PLAYHOUSE—"THREE-CORNERED MOON.". . . 30 July 1938 . 14 March 2015 . 10 . National Library of Australia.
7. News: IN THE THEATRES. . . 5 June 1941 . 14 March 2015 . 18 . National Library of Australia.