Neva Patterson, R. I. P.

Neva Patterson, 90, Actress in ‘Affair to Remember’ - NYTimes.com: "Neva Patterson, an actress who was seen in the movie “An Affair to Remember,” the Broadway play “The Seven Year Itch” and the television miniseries “V,” died Tuesday at her home here. She was 90.

The cause was complications of a broken hip, her daughter, Megan Lee, told The Los Angeles Times.

Ms. Patterson was already a Broadway veteran when she was cast as Cary Grant’s fiancee in the 1957 romance “An Affair to Remember,” starring Grant and Deborah Kerr as a couple on a rocky path to true love.

She originated the role of Helen Sherman, a woman whose husband (Tom Ewell) fantasizes about cheating on her with a neighbor (Vanessa Brown), in the hit 1952 Broadway play “The Seven Year Itch.” (Her role was played by Evelyn Keyes in the better-known movie version with Ewell and Marilyn Monroe.)"

Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.