Kathleen Crowley

Born: 1931-12-26

Betty Jane Kathleen Crowley (born December 26, 1931) was an American actress and was Miss New Jersey in 1949 and a contestant for Miss America in the same year (she came in sixth). After the pageants, she became an actress who specialized in being phenomenally seductive in TV series and movies. Most well known for playing a variety of sirens in TV's Maverick (1957) opposite James Garner, Jack Kelly, and Roger Moore, she appears in eight episodes, a series record for leading ladies; "The Jeweled Gun" (with Jack Kelly), "Maverick Springs" (with James Garner and Jack Kelly), "The Misfortune Teller" (with Garner), "A Bullet for the Teacher" (with Roger Moore), "Kiz" (with Moore), and "Dade City Dodge," "The Troubled Heir," and "One of Our Trains Is Missing," with Kelly. Crowley made 81 television appearances on various series and appeared in twenty movies between 1951 and 1970 (one of her last movie roles was in Downhill Racer with Robert Redford). Many of her films were low-budget sci-fi and horror movies, but she seemed to appear in practically every narrative television series produced in the late '50s and '60s, including Bourbon Street Beat, Surfside 6, Hawaiian Eye, 77 Sunset Strip, Bat Masterson, Bonanza, Branded, My Three Sons, Donna Reed, Perry Mason, Checkmate, Bronco, Route 66, Thriller, Batman, Disneyland, Family Affair, Rawhide, The Lone Ranger, and many others. Crowley was often confused with her acting contemporary Pat Crowley (frequently billed as "Patricia Crowley"), who appeared as guest leading lady in different episodes of many of the same television series and was not related. The two Crowleys were apparently never cast in the same episode. In the Philip Roth novel American Pastoral, the protagonist marries Miss New Jersey 1949, in the book named Dawn Dwyer and having few similarities to Crowley's post-Miss New Jersey life (including a poorer finish in the Miss America pageant). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kathleen Crowley,  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Downhill Racer

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Released: 1969-11-06

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Ten Wanted Men

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Released: 1955-02-01

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Released: 1959-05-01

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Released: 1963-05-03

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Released: 1956-06-16

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Released: 1970-03-10

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Released: 1953-09-04

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Released: 1953-02-04

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Released: 1953-06-12

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Released: 1958-04-02

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Released: 1963-01-04

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Released: 1957-03-31

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First aired: 1957-09-21

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First aired: 1957-09-21

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Bonanza

as Kathleen aka Quick-Buck Kate
First aired: 1959-09-12

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as Sophia Starr
First aired: 1966-01-12

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as Esther Blodgett
First aired: 1950-01-30

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The High Chaparral

as Countess Maria Kettenden von München
First aired: 1967-09-10

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The 20th Century Fox Hour

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First aired: 1955-10-05

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77 Sunset Strip

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First aired: 1958-10-10

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The Donna Reed Show

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First aired: 1958-09-24

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Matinee Theater

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First aired: 1955-10-31

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Maverick

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First aired: 1957-09-22

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Maverick

as Daisy Harris
First aired: 1957-09-22

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Climax!

as Laura Harriss
First aired: 1954-10-07

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as Louise
First aired: 1954-10-07

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First aired: 1954-10-07

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First aired: 1954-10-07

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as Jennifer McLeod
First aired: 1962-09-19

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Cheyenne

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First aired: 1955-09-20

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Hawaiian Eye

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First aired: 1959-10-07

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Bourbon Street Beat

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First aired: 1959-10-05

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Route 66

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First aired: 1960-10-07

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as Abigail Paddock
First aired: 1952-10-01

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as Dr. Lois Walker
First aired: 1960-09-13

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as Dot
First aired: 1950-10-02

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Family Affair

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First aired: 1966-09-12

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Bat Masterson

as Jo Hart
First aired: 1958-10-08

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Bat Masterson

as Mari Brewster
First aired: 1958-10-08

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The Lone Wolf

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First aired: 1954-01-01

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Surfside 6

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-10-06

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Bronco

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First aired: 1958-09-23

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as Pauline Spencer
First aired: 1960-09-17

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Branded

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First aired: 1965-01-24

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Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers

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First aired: 1956-10-21

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First aired: 1958-10-02

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Gidget

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First aired: 1965-09-15

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First aired: 1953-09-07

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General Electric Theater

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First aired: 1953-02-01

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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

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First aired: 1951-10-05

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The Americans

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First aired: 1961-01-23

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Redigo

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First aired: 1963-09-24

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