Elizabeth Patterson Dial (May 19, 1902 – March 23, 1945) was a writer and silent film actress of the 1920s.

Dial appeared in fourteen motion pictures, beginning with Gloria's Romance in 1916.

The other films in which she appeared were in the three-year period from 1921 to 1924 and they included Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford (1921), Sonny (1922), Reno (1923), A Man's Mate (1924), and Married Flirts (1924).

With Hughes, the husband and wife became noted in literary circles and formed a writing team.

The circumstances were mysterious and the police could not determine whether it was an accident or suicide, as she also suffered from a heart condition.