Kathleen Crowley(1929-2017)
- Actress
Kathleen Crowley represented her home state of New Jersey in the Miss
America pageant in 1949, placed sixth and (with the scholarship money
she won) enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Art in New York.
She played the plum title roles in prestigious TV productions of
A Star Is Born (1951)
and
Jane Eyre (1951),
caught the eye of Hollywood and became a 20th Century-Fox contractee in
1952. Freelancing after leaving the studio, she kept busy in feature
films (mostly Westerns and horror/sci-fi titles) and TV. Crowley turned up at film conventions in Memphis, Baltimore and New
Jersey before her death in 2017.
