Patricia Biow Broderick (February 23, 1925 – November 18, 2003) was an American playwright and painter. She was the wife of actor James Broderick and the mother of actor Matthew Broderick.
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| Born | Patricia Biow February 23, 1925 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | November 18, 2003 (aged 78) Greenwich Village, New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Playwright, painter |
| Years active | 1961–1996 |
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| Children | 3, including Matthew Broderick |
| Parent(s) | Milton H. Biow Sophie Taub Biow |
| Relatives | Adet Lin (sister-in-law) |
Early life and career
editBroderick was born Patricia Biow in New York City, the daughter of Sophie (née Taub) (1895–1943) and Milton H. Biow (1892–1976), president of an advertising firm.[1][2][3] Her family were Jewish immigrants from Germany and Poland.[4][5][6][7] When she was 18, her mother died in 1943 at the age of 48. Her father died 33 years later. In Mexico, Broderick studied painting with Rufino Tamayo who had been her art teacher at the Dalton School in Manhattan.[8] She began writing plays in the 1940s and several of them were performed in New York and London. Her 1996 screenplay for Infinity was based on the life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.
Her paintings were displayed in several galleries in New York and across the country. Broderick's partner of her last six years was the painter John Wesley.[9]
Personal life
editShe married her first husband, Jay Kaner, in 1945, and they divorced in 1947. She married her second husband, actor James Broderick in 1949.[10] Together they had two daughters, Martha and Janet, and a son, actor Matthew Broderick.[11]
Death
editBroderick died of cancer on November 18, 2003, at her home in Greenwich Village, aged 78.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "Patricia Broderick, 78, artist, writer, mother of actor Matthew Broderick". Thevillager.com. 2003-12-02. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-06-23.
- ^ "Mrs. Milton H. Biow, Child Welfare Head; Advertising Man's Wife Built War Evacuation Center". The New York Times. February 27, 1943. (subscription required)
- ^ "Sophie Taub Biow". The Boston Globe. 1943-02-27. Retrieved 2013-06-23 – via Pqasb.pqarchiver.com.[dead link]
- ^ Stated on Inside the Actors Studio, 2005
- ^ Tom Tugend (16 December 2005). "Bialystock and Bloom Tell the Truth". The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
- ^ Bloom, Nate (December 7, 2017). "'Tis the season for the Goldbergs to face the 'December Dilemma'". St. Louis Jewish Light. Retrieved May 16, 2018.
- ^ "Excerpt: 'Stars of David : Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish' by Abigail Pogrebin". ABC News. December 26, 2005. Retrieved May 16, 2018.
Journalist Abigail Pogrebin first began to grapple with her Jewish identity at 25, when her Jewish mother disapproved of her Irish Catholic boyfriend. Fifteen years later, married (to a Jewish man) and raising two children, she was still trying to understand her own relationship with Judaism.
- ^ "Patricia Broderick". Tibor de Nagy.com. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
- ^ "Patricia Broderick, 78, Writer and Painter", obituary in The New York Times (November 22, 2003)
- ^ "Matthew Broderick". Genealogy.com. 2008. Archived from the original on 2012-02-18. Retrieved 2008-05-19.
- ^ Blau, Eleanor (November 3, 1982). "James Broderick, 55, Actor Was in Brenner and Family". The New York Times. Retrieved July 8, 2014.