Pat Crowley

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

(1933-09-17) September 17, 1933 (age 90)
Olyphant, Pennsylvania, U.S.
OccupationActress
Years active1950–2012
Spouse(s)Ed Hookstratten
(m. 1957; div. 19??)
Andy Friendly
​
​
(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

Crowley was born in

née Swartz) and coal mining foreman Vincent Crowley.[citation needed] Her sister Ann was also an actress.[3]

Career

Crowley played Sally Carver in the film

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 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

Joe Forrester television series.[6]
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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

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

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

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

Dwight Eisenhower for re-election in the 1956 presidential election.[7]

Filmography

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
1960 Key Witness Ann Morrow
1963 The Wheeler Dealers Eloise Cott
1964 To Trap a Spy Elaine May Bender Donaldson (archive footage)
1970 Manace On The Mountain[8] Leah McIver Walt Disney film
1971 Columbo - Death Lends a Hand Mrs. Lenore Kennicutt (as Patricia Crowley)
1972 The Biscuit Eater Mary Lee McNeil
1978 The Eddie Capra Mysteries Susan Lockard Episode: "The Two Million Dollar Stowaway"
1979 The Wonderful World of Disney Florence Stone "The Sky Trap"
1998 Friends Mrs. Burgin Episode: "The One With Rachel's New Dress"
2012 Mont Reve Mrs. Cottington (final film role)

References

  1. ^ a b "Pat Crowley- Biography". Yahoo.com. Archived from the original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  2. 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. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8
    .
  6. ^
    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.

External links

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