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Patricia Owens Profile
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| 17 January 25 | is born in Golden, British Columbia, Canada, to English parents |
| ? | moves with her parents to England at age 8 |
| ? | 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 |
| 43 | gets a contract from Gainsborough Pictures |
| 48 | makes her movie debut at 18 with the British Panic at Madame Tussauds |
| 45 | studies drama at the Central School of Dramatic Arts at Albert Hall in London |
| 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 |
| December 54 | is ring-shopping with Bartlett |
| 56 | goes to Hollywood |
| 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. |
| 57 | is off to the West Indies for her first movie for 20th Century-Fox, Island in the Sun |
| July 57 | announces plans to divorce Bartlett after little more than a year of marriage, charging incompatibility |
| 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. |
| April 58 | reconciliation talks between her and Bartlett will be delayed until she finishes The Fly |
| ? | becomes an item with Jack Ellis |
| 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. |
| September 58 | she and Ellis make up and have a couple of dates |
| 59 | Alfred Hitchcock invites her for tea to his trailer while directing her on "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" |
| June 59 | attends the premiere of The Diary of Anne Frank with actor John McGuire |
| October 59 | dates a well-known producer |
| October 59 | attends Gary, Phillip, Dennis, and Lindsay Crosby's opening at the Mocambo with her mother and her fiancé, Jerry Nathanson |
| June 60 | is a surprise luncheon twosome at 20th Century-Fox with actor Bob Bray |
| 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. |
| July 60 | promotes Darling, a new hairdo modeled after Senator John F. Kennedy's |
| August 60 | will not shed Nathanson as rumored |
| 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. |
| 16 February 61 | her son, Adam D., is born in Los Angeles |
| 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. |
| November 64 | is signed by producer A.C. Lyles for his upcoming Black Spurs |
| ? | marries for the third time |
| Mid-90 | lives in retirement in the High Desert, north of Hollywood |
| 31 August 00 | as Patricia M. Owens, she dies at age 75 in Lancaster, California |
| 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 | |