Kathleen Crowley

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Kathleen Crowley (1958)
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Kathleen Crowley (born Betty Jane Crowley; December 26, 1929 – April 23, 2017)[1] was an American actress. She appeared in over 100 movies and television series in the 1950s and 1960s, almost always as a leading lady.

Biography

Early life

Born on December 26, 1929, in the Green Bank section of Washington Township, New Jersey, Crowley graduated from Egg Harbor City High School in 1946. On August 7, 1949, the 19-year-old Crowley won the title of Miss New Jersey at a contest held at Asbury Park, New Jersey.[2][3] As the winner, she entered the Miss America pageant held in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 10, 1949, and finished in seventh place.[4] At the time, she was working as a bookkeeper.[5]

Acting career

Crowley attended New York's American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1950 on a scholarship won at the Miss America pageant, and undertook some live TV work there.[6][7]

In February 1951, she appeared with Conrad Nagel in A Star Is Born on Robert Montgomery Presents. Crowley made 81 television appearances and was cast in 20 movies between 1951 and 1970. One of her last movie roles was in Downhill Racer with Robert Redford. She made three guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of defendant and title character Marylin Clark in the 1958 episode "The Case of the Lonely Heiress." She was in the 1963 episode of Perry Mason's "The Case of the Drowsy Mosquito" as Mrs. Bradisson.[8]

Her most frequent recurring appearance was as Terry Van Buren in seventeen episodes of Waterfront. She also appeared in seven episodes of the popular TV Series 77 Sunset Strip (1958-1964) beginning with that series' episode titled "Lovely Lady Pity Me," based on a novel by series creator Roy Huggins. In the episode "Strange Bedfellows," she appeared as Martizza Vedar, a character purposely similar to Zsa Zsa Gabor due to their extremely close physical resemblance. For the episode "The Desert Spa Caper," Crowley portrayed alcoholic actress Claire Dickens. In 1966 Crowley portrayed Sophia Starr on two episodes of the TV series Batman, entitled "The Penguin Goes Straight" and "Not Yet He Aint."

Many of her films were science fiction and horror movies, but she appeared in a wide range of narrative television series produced from the mid-1950s to the late 1960s including Crossroads, Yancy Derringer with Jock Mahoney, Bourbon Street Beat with Andrew Duggan, Surfside 6 with Troy Donahue, Hawaiian Eye with Connie Stevens, 77 Sunset Strip with Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Bat Masterson with Gene Barry, Cheyenne with Clint Walker, an anthology series Fireside Theater, another anthology series The Americans, Bonanza in the first season chapter 28, Colt .45, Bronco with Ty Hardin, Branded with Chuck Connors, Climax!, My Three Sons with Fred MacMurray, The Donna Reed Show, Checkmate with Sebastian Cabot and Doug McClure, Route 66, Thriller with Boris Karloff, Batman with Adam West, Disneyland, Family Affair with Brian Keith, Rawhide with Clint Eastwood, The Virginian with Doug McClure, The High Chaparral, The Restless Gun with John Payne, Tales of Wells Fargo with Dale Robertson, The Lone Ranger, and The Adventures of Champion.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". In 1960, Crowley appeared as Laurie Allen on the TV Western Laramie in the episode titled "Street of Hate."

Crowley is best remembered for appearing in eight episodes, a series record for leading ladies, as a variety of seductive sirens on the series Maverick (1957-1962).[9] She was the only actress in the series whom James Garner lauded for her acting ability in depth and at length in his memoir The Garner Files.[10] Her Maverick episodes were "The Jeweled Gun" with Jack Kelly, "Maverick Springs" with James Garner and Jack Kelly, "The Misfortune Teller" with James Garner, "A Bullet for the Teacher" and "Kiz" with Roger Moore, and three more with Jack Kelly titled "Dade City Dodge," "The Troubled Heir," and "One of Our Trains is Missing."

Private life

Crowley married John Rubsam in Los Angeles on September 27, 1969, and gave birth to her only child, a son named Matthew, the following year.[11][12]

Death

She died at age 87 on April 23, 2017, at her home in Green Bank, New Jersey.[13][14]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1953 Script error: No such module "Sort". Kathy Riley
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Sabre Jet Susan Crenshaw
1954 Target Earth Nora King
1955 Female Jungle Peggy Voe
Ten Wanted Men Marva Gibbons Uncredited
City of Shadows Fern Fellows
Seven Cities of Gold Mother Uncredited
1956 Westward Ho the Wagons! Laura Thompson
1957 Script error: No such module "Sort". Teresa Carpenter
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1958 Script error: No such module "Sort". Carol Dahlmann
1959 Curse of the Undead Dolores Carter
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1963 Showdown Estelle
1969 Downhill Racer Reporter
1970 Script error: No such module "Sort". Alice Fiske

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1951 Robert Montgomery Presents Esther Blodgett Season 2 Episode 12: "A Star Is Born"
Kraft Television Theatre Jane Eyre Season 4 Episode 23: "Jane Eyre"
Starlight Theatre Louise Season 2 Episode 9: "Miss Buell"
Armstrong Circle Theatre Season 1 Episode 42: "The Hero"
1952 Crown Theatre with Gloria Swanson Episode: "Mr. Influence"
1953 Chevron Theatre 2 episodes
1954 Script error: No such module "Sort". Niki Armon Season 1 Episode 25: "The Last Ballet Story"
Cavalcade of America Abigail Paddock Season 3 Episode 3: "The Forge"
Public Defender Sharon Ferrari Season 2 Episode 11: "Until Proven Guilty"
Big Town Season 5 Episode 10: "Bubonic Plague"
Script error: No such module "Sort". Cindy Powers Season 4 Episode 15: "Homer with a High Hat"
City Detective Janet Season 1 Episode 23: "Crazy Like a Fox"
Mayor of the Town Helen Season 1 Episode 3: "Take Me Out to the Ballgame"
1954–1955 Fireside Theatre Peggy 4 episodes
1954–1955 Waterfront Terry Van Buren 17 episodes (Recurring role)
1955 Studio 57 Clara Season 1 Episode 20: "The Westerner"
General Electric Theater Mary Season 4 Episode 7: "Farewell to Kennedy"
1955–1956 Schlitz Playhouse of Stars Peggy Prentiss 2 episodes
1955–1957 Climax! Laura Harriss / Louise / Sally / Jeanne Warren 4 episodes
1956 Star Stage Season 1 Episode 21: "Screen Credit"
Script error: No such module "Sort". Season 2 Episode 14: "Appearances and Reality"
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Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers Season 1 Episode 3: "The Hostage"
Script error: No such module "Sort". Laura Thompson Season 3 Episode 10: "Along the Oregon Trail"
1956–1958 Matinee Theater Linda Stone 3 episodes
1957 Script error: No such module "Sort". Alice Season 2 Episode 17: "The Great American Hoax"
Crossroads Terry Season 2 Episode 35: "Coney Island Wedding"
On Trial Felicity O'Brien Season 1 Episode 30: "The Case of the Girl on the Elsewhere"
Lux Video Theatre Dot Season 7 Episode 38: "Edge of Doubt"
Cheyenne Marilee Curtis Season 3 Episode 6: "Town of Fear"
1957–1962 Maverick Daisy Harris (aka Daisy Haskell) / Melanie Blake / Flo Baker / Keziah 'Kiz' Bouchet / Marla / Modesty Blaine 8 episodes
1958 Colt .45 Elena Duncan Season 1 Episode 16: "Decoy"
Wagon Train Ann Jamison Season 1 Episode 23: "The Mark Hanford Story"
Script error: No such module "Sort". Mary Blackwell Season 1 Episode 24: "Woman from Sacramento"
Tombstone Territory Wyn Simmons Season 1 Episode 23: "Guilt of a Town"
Suspicion Lurene Guthrie Season 1 Episode 37: "Eye for an Eye"
Script error: No such module "Sort". Tess Pearce Season 1 Episode 7: "Blood Feud"
Lux Playhouse Anna Season 1 Episode 5: "Coney Island Winter"
Yancy Derringer Desiree Season 1 Episode 11: "Marble Fingers"
Cimarron City Claire Norris Season 1 Episode 12: "McGowan's Debt"
1958–1961 77 Sunset Strip Ann / Carol Miller / Vetta Nygood / Abigail Allen / Maritza Vedar / Claire Dickens / Melody (voice, uncredited) 7 episodes
1958–1962 Bronco Redemption McNally / Belle Siddons 2 episodes
1958–1966 Perry Mason Marylin Clark / Lillian Bradisson / Grace Knapp 3 episodes
1959 Rawhide Millie Wade Season 1 Episode 18: "Incident Below the Brazos"
Markham Ellen Childs Season 1 Episode 11: "Forty-Two on a Rope"
Death Valley Days Elizabeth Hayward Season 8 Episode 38: "Somewhere in the Vultures"
Bourbon Street Beat Adele Deckbar Season 1 Episode 8: "Invitation to a Murder"
1959–1960 Bat Masterson Jo Hart / Mari Brewster 2 episodes
1959–1962 Tales of Wells Fargo Gilda / Royal Maroon 2 episodes
1960 Laramie Laurie Allen Season 1 Episode 24: "Street of Hate"
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1960–1961 Hawaiian Eye May Caldwell / Julia Abbott 2 episodes
1960–1968 Bonanza Kathleen aka Quick-Buck Kate / Laurie Hayden / Mademoiselle Denise 3 episodes
1961 Script error: No such module "Sort". Lucy Vickery Season 1 Episode 3: "The Regular"
Thriller Dr. Lois Walker Season 1 Episode 24: "The Ordeal of Dr. Cordell"
Affairs of Anatol Ilona TV Movie
Surfside 6 Lady Kay Smallens / Dr. Leslie Halliday 2 episodes
1962 Checkmate Pauline Spencer Season 2 Episode 30: "Rendezvous in Washington"
FBI Code 98 Marian Nichols TV Movie
1963 Route 66 Diana Kirk Season 3 Episode 20: "...Shall Forfeit His Dog and Ten Shillings to the King"
Redigo Laura Season 1 Episode 10: "Shadow of the Cougar"
1964 Script error: No such module "Sort". Nancy Patterson Season 6 Episode 29: "Love Letters Are for Burning"
My Three Sons Lois Wilson Season 5 Episode 1: "Caribbean Cruise"
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1965 Script error: No such module "Sort". Jennifer McLeod Season 3 Episode 27: "Farewell to Honesty"
Script error: No such module "Sort". Mrs. Ortegas TV Movie
Branded Laura Rock Season 2 Episode 1: "Judge Not"
1966 Gidget Barbara Season 1 Episode 22: "We Got Each Other"
Batman Sophia Starr 2 episodes
1966–1969 Family Affair Nedra Wolcott / Lois Mason 2 episodes
1969 Script error: No such module "Sort". Countess Maria Kettenden von München Season 2 Episode 20: "Once on a Day in Spring"

References

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  13. ↑ Kathleen Crowley obituary, wimbergfuneralhome.com, April 25, 2017; retrieved April 25, 2017.
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