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 TVs 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 lowbudget scifi 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 Crowleys postMiss New Jersey life including a poorer finish in the Miss America pageant Description above from the Wikipedia article Kathleen Crowley licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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