Pat Crowley

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Patricia "Pat" Crowley (b. 17 September 1929, Olyphant, Pennsylvania) is an American film and television actress.

Crowley starred from 1965-67 as Joan Nash in the sitcom Please Don't Eat the Daisies, based on the Doris Day film.

A character actress or leading lady on a number of 1950s series such as Maverick, Crowley is best known to a later era of television viewers for her roles on soap operas such as Generations from 1989 to 1990 and Port Charles from 1997 to 2003. The actress appeared on The Bold and the Beautiful in 2005 for a limited run as Natalie DeWitt.

She starred with the comedy team of Martin and Lewis in the 3-D film Money from Home in 1953 and in their final film together Hollywood or Bust (1956).

She was a murder victim in a 1971 episode of Columbo and appeared in 10 episodes of the hit series Dynasty. More recently, Crowley portrayed the widow of baseball's Roger Maris in the biopic 61* directed by Billy Crystal and made a one episode appearance on The Closer in 2006.

A photo model at age 11, she was the daughter of Helen and Vincent Crowley, a mine foreman. She was married in 1958 to Edward Hookstratten, who became a successful attorney for high-profile entertainment and sports figures. After their divorce, Crowley married producer Andy Friendly in 1986.

She has at times been confused with an equally glamorous acting contemporary Kathleen Crowley, who appeared in different episodes of some of the same television series but was not related.

Crowley has been billed as Pat or Patricia interchangeably throughout her career. During her three appearances on Maverick, she rotated back and forth, billed as "Patricia Crowley" for the episode "The Rivals" with James Garner and Roger Moore, and as "Pat Crowley" for an installment called "Betrayal" with Jack Kelly.