- Born
- Died
- Birth nameBetty Jane Kathleen Crowley
- Height5′ 3″ (1.60 m)
- 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.
- IMDb mini biography by: Tom Weaver <TomWeavr@aol.com>
- SpouseJohn Rubsam(September 27, 1969 - April 23, 2017) (her death, 1 child)
- ChildrenMatthew
- ParentsBirdsall Wobbar "Bert" Crowley VAlyce Irene Michael Crowley
- RelativesWilliam Morrell Crowley(Sibling)
- Portrayed six different characters on Maverick (1957).
- In February of 2008 she became a grandmother.
- Interviewed in "It Came from Horrorwood: Interviews with Moviemakers in the SF and Horror Tradition" by Tom Weaver (McFarland, 1996).
- To be honest with you, I didn't like the direction the cinema was going.
- I loved character actors, much more I think than the pretty boys. Michael Pate was one of those men . . . He was very nice and I enjoyed working with him.
- [of Eric Fleming] He was a very sweet person and, of course, very involved with Rawhide (1959), and when you're doing a series like that, you have no other life.
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