Patricia Harper (born Frances Persotia Harper, February 21, 1908 – April 15, 1979) was an American screenwriter and actress who wrote B-Westerns in the 1930s and 1940s.
She was raised primarily in Oklahoma City, where she met and married Gordon Eskridge in 1927.
Patricia's parents raised her son[3] while she attended art school and moved further west to seek work as a writer and actress.
[4][5] Soon after arriving in Hollywood, she appeared in a string of smaller roles, but more importantly, she forged a promising career for herself as a screenwriter.
[8][9] She married advertising executive George Johnson Ross in 1947.