Patricia Biow Broderick (February 23, 1925 – November 18, 2003) was an American playwright and painter. She was the wife of actor

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and the mother of actor

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Early life and career

Broderick was born Patricia Biow in New York City, the daughter of Sophie (née Taub; 1895–1943) and Milton H. Biow (1892–1976), president of an advertising firm. Her family were Jewish immigrants from Germany and Poland.Stated on ''

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'', 2005 When she was 18, her mother died in 1943 at the age of 48. Her father died 33 years later when she was 51. In Mexico, Broderick studied painting with

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who had been her art teacher at the

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in Manhattan. She began writing plays in the 1940s and several of them were performed in New York and London. Her 1996 screenplay for ''

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'' was based on the life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist

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. Her paintings were displayed in several galleries in New York and across the country. Broderick's partner of her last six years was the painter

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Personal life

She married her first husband, Jay Kaner, in 1945, and they divorced in 1947. She married her second husband, actor

in 1949. Together they had two daughters, Martha and Janet, and one son, actor

Death

Broderick died of cancer on November 18, 2003, at her home in

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, aged 78.

References

External links

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Paintings by Patricia Broderick
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