Doris May Patston Sheehan (28 May 1904 â 12 June 1957) was an English actress, dancer, pianist, and singer, active on the London, New York, and Chicago stages from the 1910s into the 1950s.
Patston was born in Islington, the daughter of Edward Henry Patston and Clara Eliza Denton Patston. She studied voice and piano with Landon Ronald at the Guildhall School of Music in London.
Patston was a concert pianist and a dancer as a young woman. Later, she was an actress and singer on Broadway, in both musicals and dramas. Her New York debut came in 1925 in Florenz Ziegfeld's comedy Louie the 14th, starring Leon Errol. She also appeared in shows at the St. Louis Municipal Opera.
Patston married actor Jack Sheehan in 1929, while they were both in the cast of Lovely Lady in Chicago. She died in 1957, at the age of 53, in New York City.