- Born
- Birth namePatricia Ann Ratchford
- Pat Kingsley was born on May 7, 1932 in Gastonia, North Carolina, USA. She is known for The Thin Red Line (1998), Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987) and Looking for Richard (1996). She was previously married to Walter Kingsley.
- SpouseWalter Kingsley(April 1, 1966 - January 9, 1978) (divorced, 1 child)
- Co-founded publicity firm Pickwick Public Relations with Lois Smith and Patricia Newcomb. She later formed PMK with Michael Maslansky and Neil Koenigsberg in 1980 from Pickwick. In 1999, PMK was purchased by Interpublic Group.
- Worked as a secretary to Warren Cowan at Rogers and Cowan.
- Past and current clients include Doris Day, Natalie Wood, Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock, and Frank Sinatra.
- Was once Tom Cruise's publicist. He fired her and chose his sister to represent him instead.
- One of Hollywood's most revered and top publicists.
- ...but I think ... I'm comfortable with my reputation.
- I don't like interesting stories. Boring is good. Good reporting and good writing don't help my client. New information is usually controversial. I don't need that.
- Very, very rarely do you get a situation where someone lucked into becoming a big media star before their work made it possible. The work is what lasts.
- Who doesn't like to be in control of their life? I think if you ask the people I work with, they'll say I'm a control freak. I don't see anything wrong with that.
- You know, these days, television is basically what decides what's going to be a hit movie. Getting that kind of exposure, buying the time on the air. Much more than press. The kind of people that they want to bring into the movie theaters - young people - aren't that interested in the print media, and they get most of their information from television.
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) - $5,000 /month
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