Kathleen Crowley was an American actress who starred in a number of TV shows and films throughout the 1950s and 1960s, ending her career in 1970 at age 40.
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. 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 1951–1970. 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. She also appeared in seven episodes of the popular Warner Bros TV Series 77 Sunset Strip beginning with that series’ initial format establishing first regular production episode * S1EP2 “Lovely Lady Pity Me”
S3EP23 "Strange Bedfellows" she appeared as Martizza Vedar pulling off a credible Zsa Zsa Gabor knockoff character. IMDB: https://g.co/kgs/mbB7kx
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S4EP02 "The Desert Spa Caper" portrayed alcoholic actress, Claire Dickens
Many of her films were low-budget science fiction and horror movies, but she appeared in a wide range of narrative television series produced in the late 1950s and 1960s, including Crossroads, Yancy Derringer, Bourbon Street Beat, Surfside 6, Hawaiian Eye, 77 Sunset Strip, Bat Masterson, The Americans. Bonanza, Colt.45, Bronco, Branded, Redigo, My Three Sons, The Donna Reed Show, Checkmate, Route 66, Thriller, Batman, Disneyland, Family Affair, Rawhide, The Virginian, The High Chaparral, The Restless Gun, Tales of Wells Fargo, The Lone Ranger, and The Adventures of Champion. In 1960 Crowley appeared as Laurie Allen on the TV westernLaramie in the episode titled "Street of Hate." Crowley is best remembered for appearing in eight episodes as a variety of seductive sirens on the ABC/Warner Brothers series, Maverick, opposite James Garner, Jack Kelly, and Roger Moore. She was the only actress in the series that Garner admiringly singled out to laud her acting ability at length in his autobiography "The Garner Files" half a century later.
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.
