Kathleen Crowley

Who is Kathleen Crowley?

Betty Jane Kathleen Crowley is an American actress who was crowned Miss New Jersey in 1949 and hence a contestant for Miss America that same year.

As an actress, she specialized in being phenomenally seductive in films and television series. Most well known for playing a variety of sirens on the ABC/Warner Brothers series, Maverick opposite James Garner, Jack Kelly, and Roger Moore, she appears in eight episodes, a series record for leading ladies:

"The Jeweled Gun"

"Maverick Springs"

"The Misfortune Teller"

"A Bullet for the Teacher"

"Kiz"

"Dade City Dodge"

"The Troubled Heir"

"One of Our Trains Is Missing".

In his 2012 autobiography, The Garner Files, James Garner cited Crowley as the leading lady from the series that he most vividly remembers after more than a half century:

Crowley made eighty-one television appearances and was cast in twenty movies between 1951 and 1970. One of her last movie roles was in Downhill Racer with Robert Redford. She made three guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of defendant and title character Marylin Clark in the 1958 episode, "The Case of the Lonely Heiress." Many of her films were low-budget science fiction, and horror movies, but she seemed to appear in practically every narrative television series produced in the late 1950s and 1960s.