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Pat Crowley, prolific Please Don't Eat the Daisies
and Dynasty actress, dies at 91
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She appeared in dozens of television shows across her six-decade
career, as well as such films as "Forever Female" and "There's
Always Tomorrow."
Pat Crowley, the prolific actress with more than 100 credits to
her name who starred as Joan Nash on the 1960s sitcom, Please
Don't Eat the Daisies, has died. She was 91.
Crowley died of natural causes on Sunday, two days before her
92nd birthday, her son, Jon Hookstratten, who is the executive
vice president of administration and operations at Sony Pictures
Entertainment, confirmed to Entertainment Weekly.
Born Patricia Crowley on Sept. 17, 1933, in Olyphant, Pa., the
future actress left her hometown for New York as a teenager,
tagging along with her elder sister Ann. Both girls found success
- Ann landed a gig in the chorus of Oklahoma! on Broadway and
later played lead roles in Paint Your Wagon and Seventeen.
Meanwhile, Pat made her Broadway debut as a high school senior,
playing the lead in Southern Exposure in 1950.
She then broke into film with Paramount's Forever Female in 1953,
starring alongside Ginger Rogers and William Holden as a young
actress who wants the lead role in a play. That same year, she
starred in Money From Home with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, and
won the Golden Globe for New Star of the Year for her
performances.
Though she would go on to accrue more than 100 screen credits,
guest starring on various TV shows throughout her career, Crowley
is best known for leading Please Don't Eat the Daisies, the
1965-67 NBC series based on the 1960 movie starring Doris Day.
Crowley played mother of four Joan Nash, who blew past traditional
housewife tropes and worked as a freelance newspaper columnist.
The show, which also starred Mark Miller as Jim Nash, did not
immediately find its audience. It spanned just 58 episodes across
two seasons. But Please Don't Eat the Daisies later achieved
popularity in the 1970s, thanks to reruns. Prior to the sitcom,
Crowley guested on TV series, including The Untouchables,
Gunsmoke, Bonanza and Maverick. She also co-starred with Burgess
Meredith and Robert Sterling in "Printer's Devil," a 1963 episode
of Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone.
After Daisies, she continued appearing on popular TV shows well
into the 2000s, with roles on Columbo, Friends, Hawaii Five-O,
The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place,
Frasier, Charmed and Murder, She Wrote. Crowley later played Mary
Scanlon in more than 250 episodes of the daytime drama and General
Hospital spinoff, Port Charles. She also appeared on soaps
including Generations, The Bold and the Beautiful, and Falcon
Crest. She later had a recurring role in the sixth season of
Dynasty, playing Emily Fallmont, the wife of Senator Buck
Fallmont.
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On the big screen, Crowley was active throughout the '50s and '60s,
with credits including Red Garters (1954), The Square Jungle (1955),
There's Always Tomorrow (1956), Hollywood or Bust (1956), Key
Witness (1960) and The Wheeler Dealers (1963). Her final film role
was in 2012's Mont Reve.
Along with her son, Crowley is survived by her husband, television
producer and executive Andy Friendly, whom she wed in 1986. Prior
to that, Crowley was married to the late Ed Hookstratten, the
powerful entertainment attorney who represented the likes of Johnny
Carson, Elvis Presley, and Vin Scully. Crowley is also survived by
her daughter, Ann; son-in-law Robert; daughter-in-law Marion; five
grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
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