Fate of Jim Patterson's father

[Lotoshko Yu.R.]

I don't know nothing about Jim Patterson's  father.
But in 1969 when i was school-boy, we meet with Jimmy in school (Tver).
He doesn't mention about his farther.
Try to find some information fbout tha from  http://www.Rambler.ru

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Isham" <jfi1 at COLUMBIA.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 7:09 PM
Subject: [SEELANGS] Fate of Jim Patterson's father


> Hello all,
>
> Those of you who have seen Grigorii Alexandrov's 1936 film *Circus* are no
> doubt familiar with the child actor Jimmy Patterson, who plays Marion
> Dixon's illegitimate child and is most memorably passed around the
audience
> towards the end of the movie and lullabied in the languages of various
> Soviet nationalities.
>
> I have a question regarding Jim Patterson's real-life African-American
> father.  On a Radio Svoboda transcript it mentions that the father was
> killed tragically in the USSR.  Does anyone know exactly what happened?
Was
> he a victim of the purges or of World War II?
>
> Thank you,
>
> John Isham
>
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