Virginia Ann Marie Patton Moss (June 25, 1925 – August 18, 2022) was an American actress.

After appearing in several films in the early 1940s, she was cast in her most well-known role as Ruth Dakin Bailey in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946).

Patton made only four films after It's a Wonderful Life, including her first lead in the B-Western Black Eagle (1948).

[10] She appeared in the drama The Burning Cross (1946), a film about a World War II veteran who becomes embroiled with the Ku Klux Klan upon returning to his hometown.

She gave up acting in the late 1940s to concentrate on raising a family with her husband in Ann Arbor, Michigan.