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'' (1922) and for a supporting role in the

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vehicle '' Mantrap'' (1926).

Biography

Sometimes credited as Patty DuPont, Miss DuPont was born as Patricia Hannon in

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, though sources sometimes state her place of birth as Frankfort, Indiana. She appeared as a wealthy and naive American woman seduced by

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's odious count in ''

'' (1922). Although Stroheim is credited with discovering her, she had already made several films beginning in 1919 with ''The Day She Paid''. She was the second wife of Sylvanus Stokes. They met while he was traveling in Los Angeles shortly after his 1926 divorce from his first wife, Margaret Fahnestock Stokes, and were married in January 1928. She was living on Via Linda in

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, near the Palm Beach Country Club, in 1958. Miss DuPont died in Palm Beach in 1973.

Filmography

*'' Lombardi, Ltd.'' (1919) * '' The Day She Paid'' (1919) *'' Bonnie May'' (1920) * '' The Rage of Paris'' (1921) *'' Prisoners of Love'' (1921) * '' False Kisses'' (1921) *''

'' (1922) *'' The Golden Gallows'' (1922) *unknown/presumably lost *'' A Wonderful Wife'' (1922) * '' Shattered Dreams'' (1922) *''

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'' (1923) * '' The Broken Wing'' (1923) *'' The Common Law'' (1923) *lost film *'' The Man from Brodney's'' (1923) *incomplete * '' What Three Men Wanted'' (1924) *'' So This Is Marriage?'' (1924) *lost film *'' One Night in Rome'' (1924) *'' Sinners in Silk'' (1924) *lost film *'' Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman'' (1925) * '' Three Keys'' (1925) * '' Accused'' (1925) * ''

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'' (1925) *'' A Slave of Fashion'' (1925) *lost film *'' Good and Naughty'' (1926) *lost film *'' Mantrap'' (1926) *'' That Model from Paris'' (1926) *''

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'' (1927) *'' The Wheel of Destiny'' (1927)

References

External links

* American silent film actresses Actresses from Kentucky Actresses from Indiana People from Frankfort, Kentucky 1894 births 1973 deaths 20th-century American actresses {{US-film-actor-1890s-stub