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Pat Crowley

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Patricia "Pat" Crowley
Crowley in 1965.
Born
Patricia Crowley

(1933-09-17) September 17, 1933 (age 91)
Olyphant, Pennsylvania, U.S.
OccupationActress
Years active1950–2012
Spouse(s)Ed Hookstratten
(m. 1957; div. 19??)
Andy Friendly
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(m. 1986)​
Children2
RelativesAnn Crowley (sister)

Patricia Crowley (born September 17, 1933) is an American actress.[1] She was also frequently billed as Pat Crowley.

In 1953, she was awarded the Golden Globe for New Star of the Year for her performances in Forever Female and Money From Home. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, she had starring roles in films with Rosemary Clooney, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, and Tony Curtis, among other stars of the era. She appeared in television roles starting in the 1950s, continuing through the 2000s.

Early life

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Crowley was born in Olyphant, Pennsylvania,[2] the daughter of Helen (née Swartz) and coal mining foreman Vincent Crowley.[citation needed] Her sister Ann was also an actress.[3]

Career

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Crowley played Sally Carver in the film Forever Female (1953), starring Ginger Rogers and William Holden. She starred as Dr. Autumn Claypool alongside Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in Money from Home (1953), and in their final film together Hollywood or Bust (1956), in which she played Terry Roberts. Her roles in Forever Female and Money from Home brought her the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Actress.[4] She co-starred with Rosemary Clooney in a 1954 musical, Red Garters, and with Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray in the 1956 drama There's Always Tomorrow. She had a starring role opposite Tony Curtis in the boxing drama The Square Jungle (1955) and the Audie Murphy Western Walk the Proud Land, and was also featured in 1963's The Wheeler Dealers, a comedy starring James Garner and Lee Remick.

Pat Crowley with Elliott Reid in 1959

Crowley starred as Judy Foster in the daytime version of A Date with Judy on ABC-TV in 1951.[5]

Crowley made guest appearances in many television series in the 1950s and 1960s, including the pilot for The Untouchables, The Lieutenant, Crossroads, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Riverboat, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, Rawhide (with Clint Eastwood), Wanted: Dead or Alive (with Steve McQueen), The Eleventh Hour, The Roaring 20s, Cheyenne, Mr. Novak, The Twilight Zone, The Fugitive, 77 Sunset Strip, The Tab Hunter Show, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

She appeared as leading lady for both James Garner and Roger Moore in the same episode of Maverick, titled "The Rivals", a 1958 reworking of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 1775 comedy of manners play. This was the only episode starring both Garner and Moore. She was billed in some Maverick episodes as "Patricia Crowley" and others as "Pat Crowley".

She starred from 1965 to 1967 as Joan Nash in the NBC-MGM television sitcom Please Don't Eat the Daisies, based on the 1957 book by Jean Kerr[6] and the 1960 Doris Day/David Niven film of the same name.[1] In 1975–1976, she played Georgia Cameron on the Joe Forrester television series.[6]: 537 

Crowley with Richard Denning in 1961

Crowley sang and danced on The Dean Martin Show. She made guest appearances on episodes of Bonanza (in the episode "The Actress"), Charlie's Angels, Columbo, Police Woman, The Streets of San Francisco, Hawaii 5-0, The Rockford Files, The Feather and Father Gang, Hotel, Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected (in the episode "The Force of Evil"),[citation needed] and Murder, She Wrote, as well as sitcoms Happy Days, The Love Boat, Empty Nest, Roseanne, Frasier, and Friends.

She became known to a later era of television viewers for her roles on the serials Generations from 1989–90, Port Charles from 1997 to 2003, and The Bold and the Beautiful in 2005. She appeared as Emily Fallmont on 10 episodes of the nighttime soap opera Dynasty in 1986. More recently, Crowley portrayed the widow of baseball's Roger Maris in the biopic 61*, directed by Billy Crystal. She appeared in a 2006 episode of The Closer and a 2009 episode of Cold Case.

Throughout her career, she was confused with actress Kathleen Crowley, who guest-starred in many of the same television series during the same time frame (the 1950s and 1960s), though they never appeared together. They were not related. Walt Disney's actor Fess Parker noted in his Archive of American Television interview that two actresses were named Crowley whom everyone was always mixing up, one tall (Pat) and one short (Kathleen), and that he was paired with the shorter Crowley for one project, despite being 6 feet 6 inches tall.

Personal life

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Crowley has been married twice, first to attorney and entertainment agent Ed Hookstratten, whose clients included Elvis Presley, Johnny Carson, and Tom Brokaw, and since 1986 to television producer Andy Friendly.

Crowley, a Republican, endorsed Dwight Eisenhower for re-election in the 1956 presidential election.[7]

Filmography

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Year Title Role Notes
1953 Forever Female Clara Mootz/Sally Carver
1953 Money from Home Dr. Autumn Claypool
1954 Red Garters Susan Martinez De La Cruz
1955 There's Always Tomorrow Ann
1955 The Square Jungle Julie Walsh
1956 Walk the Proud Land Mary Dennison
1956 Hollywood or Bust Terry Roberts A Martin and Lewis comedy
1959 Maverick (1) Lydia Lynley
(2) Ann Saunders
(3) Stephanie Malone		 (1) Season 2 Episode 18: "The Rivals"
(2) Season 2 Episode 25: "Betrayal"
(3) Season 3 Episode 6: "A Tale of Three Cities"
1960 Key Witness Ann Morrow
1963 The Wheeler Dealers Eloise Cott
1963 The Twilight Zone Jackie Benson Season 4 Episode 9: "Printer's Devil"
1963 Rawhide Sara May Green Season 5 Episode 18: "Incident of the Mountain Man"
1963 Bonanza Julia Grant Season 4 Episode 22: "The Actress"
1964 To Trap a Spy Elaine May Bender Donaldson (archive footage)
1964 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour Enid Bentley Season 2 Episode 23: "A Matter of Murder"
1964 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Elaine May Donaldson Season 1 Episode 1: "The Vulcan Affair"
1970 Manace On The Mountain[8] Leah McIver Walt Disney film
1971 Columbo Mrs. Lenore Kennicutt Season 1 Episode 2: "Death Lends a Hand" (as Patricia Crowley)
1972 The Biscuit Eater Mary Lee McNeil
1978 The Eddie Capra Mysteries Susan Lockard Season 1 Episode 9: "The Two Million Dollar Stowaway"
1979 The Wonderful World of Disney Florence Stone Season 25 Episode 21: "The Sky Trap"
1979 The Rockford Files Valerie Pointer Season 5 Episode 14: "Guilt"
1979-1981 Charlie's Angels (1) Ellen Miles
(2) Marion Moss		 (1) Season 3 Episode 20: "Angels in Waiting" (1979)
(2) Season 5 Episode 6: "Hula Angels" (1981)
1987 Murder, She Wrote Trudy Howard Season 3 Episode 18: "No Laughing Murder"
1993 Frasier Marion Lawlor Season 1 Episode 8: "Beloved Infidel"
1998 Friends Mrs. Burgin Season 4 Episode 18: "The One With Rachel's New Dress"
2012 Mont Reve Mrs. Cottington (final film role)

References

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  1. ^ a b "Pat Crowley- Biography". Yahoo.com. Archived from the original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  2. ^ Monush, Barry (2003). Screen World Presents the Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the silent era to 1965. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 163. ISBN 9781557835512. Retrieved 6 May 2017.
  3. ^ "Gets ingenue lead". The New York Times. September 12, 1950. p. 22. Retrieved October 15, 2022.
  4. ^ "Pat Crowley". Golden Globe Awards. Archived from the original on 6 May 2017. Retrieved 6 May 2017.
  5. ^ McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television (4th ed.). New York, New York: Penguin Books USA, Inc. p. 199. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8.
  6. ^ a b Terrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. p. 842. ISBN 978-0-7864-6477-7.
  7. ^ Motion Picture Magazine, Issue 549, November 1956, Brewster Publications, Inc., Page. 27
  8. ^ Mark Arnold (2022). "Pat Crowley". Stars of Walt Disney Productions.
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