Actress Patricia Crowley dead at age 91

By Bianca Sierra

 

Patricia Crowley in 1965 publicity photo from the TV-series Please Don’t Eat the Daisies. By NBC, Public Domain, https commons.wikimedia.org

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Patricia Crowley (September 17, 1933 – September 14, 2025) was an American actress.

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 ClooneyDean MartinJerry Lewis, and Tony Curtis, among other stars of the era. She appeared in television roles starting in the 1950s, continuing through the 2000s.

Crowley was born in Olyphant, Pennsylvania. Her sister Ann was also an actress.

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.