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(Patricia M. Owens)
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| 17 January 25 |
is born in Golden, British Columbia, Canada, to English parents
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moves with her parents to England at age 8
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is a 15-year-old manicurist in a gentlemen's barbershop at a Kingston department store in London when a Warner Brothers casting director asks her to test
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| 43 |
gets a contract from Gainsborough Pictures
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| 48 |
makes her movie debut at 18 with the British Panic at Madame Tussauds
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| 45 |
studies drama at the Central School of Dramatic Arts at Albert Hall in London
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is in a play with Clive Brook and Margaret Johnston
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| c. 54 |
in England, she meets screenwriter-producer Sy Bartlett, the ex of actress Ellen Drew, who has rough times getting jobs in the States due to the McCarthy blacklist
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| December 54 |
is ring-shopping with Bartlett
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| 56 |
goes to Hollywood
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| 7 April 56 |
marries screenwriter-producer Sidney "Sy" Bartlett at La Horizon, oilman-producer Jack Wrather and actress Bonita Granville's Palm Springs resort. It's his third and her second marriage. He's 47; she's 24. Gregory Peck is the best man. Alan Ladd, Kirk Douglas, and Robert Mitchum attend.
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| 57 |
is off to the West Indies for her first movie for 20th Century-Fox, Island in the Sun
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| July 57 |
announces plans to divorce Bartlett after little more than a year of marriage, charging incompatibility
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| 18 March 58 |
files for divorce from Bartlett in Santa Monica, California. She testifies: "He told me it was up to a woman to accept everything her husband said as gospel law and never question him." Bartlett will marry Carol Weber, a widow, in 1963.
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| April 58 |
reconciliation talks between her and Bartlett will be delayed until she finishes The Fly
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becomes an item with Jack Ellis
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| August 58 |
attends Hyatt Von Dehn's elegant costume party with fellow actor Kent Smith. She announces that she and Jack Ellis are friendly but she don't want to steady-date him anymore. Jack attends with "Miss Ireland," Cindy Conroy.
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| September 58 |
she and Ellis make up and have a couple of dates
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| 59 |
Alfred Hitchcock invites her for tea to his trailer while directing her on "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"
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| June 59 |
attends the premiere of The Diary of Anne Frank with actor John McGuire
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| October 59 |
dates a well-known producer
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| October 59 |
attends Gary, Phillip, Dennis, and Lindsay Crosby's opening at the Mocambo with her mother and her fiancé, Jerry Nathanson
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| June 60 |
is a surprise luncheon twosome at 20th Century-Fox with actor Bob Bray
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| 10 July 60 |
marries wealthy real estate investor Jerome Nathanson at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. It's his second marriage. He's 49; she's 30.
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| July 60 |
promotes Darling, a new hairdo modeled after Senator John F. Kennedy's
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| August 60 |
will not shed Nathanson as rumored
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| 25 August 60 |
files for divorce from Nathanson in Santa Monica, California. She says to expect a child from her one-month marriage and wins $750-a-month temporary support.
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| 16 February 61 |
her son, Adam D., is born in Los Angeles
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| 12 May 61 |
obtains a divorce decree from Nathanson and custody of their son in Santa Monica. Nathanson will die at age 83 in 1994 in Los Angeles.
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| November 64 |
is signed by producer A.C. Lyles for his upcoming Black Spurs
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marries for the third time
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| Mid-90 |
lives in retirement in the High Desert, north of Hollywood
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| 31 August 00 |
as Patricia M. Owens, she dies at age 75 in Lancaster, California
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Sources:
Monsters, Mutants and Heavenly Creatures by Tom Weaver, Picture Show's Who's Who, Syracuse Herald-Journal, Nevada State Journal, Tri-City Herald, Indiana Evening Gazette, The Vidette-Messenger, The Lancaster Eagle-Gazette, The Lima News, The Daily Gleaner, Two Rivers Reporter, Daily Tribune, www.Ancestry.com |
Recommended Books:
Monsters, Mutants and Heavenly Creatures by Tom Weaver |
Links:
Filmography
Patricia Owens at Spooky's Nightmare Mansion |
