Patricia Ryan (February 25, 1921 - February 15, 1949) was a child
performer and an actress in old-time radio. She was taken ill during
an evening broadcast and died the next day.Ryan's father was a
doughboy in World War I. During his time in England he met an English
girl, and they married. Their daughter, Patricia, was born about six
weeks before they boarded a ship to sail to the United States. She
worked in vaudeville when she was 7 years old. She also sang in the
choir and played on the basketball team of St. Michael's Church.Ryan
had an older sister, Peggy, and a younger sister, Janice.Ryan began
working in radio when she was 4 years old. (Another source says that
she "started at the age of 8.") Her best-known role was probably that
of Kathleen, Henry Aldrich's girlfriend on The Aldrich Family. During
the 1934-1935 radio season, Ryan "wrote, directed and acted in a radio
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