Pat Crowley

Pat Crowley, the prolific actress who appeared on the ABC soap Dynasty and the '60s sitcom Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, died of natural causes on Sunday, Sept. 14. She was 91. The young star made her Broadway debut as a high school senior, playing the lead in Southern Exposure in 1950. She then broke into film three years later, with roles in Paramount’s Forever Female and Money From Home, winning the 1953 Golden Globe for New Star of the Year for her dual performances. Crowley later led Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, the 1965-67 NBC series based on the 1960 movie starring Doris Day. She went on to accrue over 100 screen credits, with guest-starring roles on TV shows including The Untouchables, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Twilight Zone, Columbo, Friends, Hawaii Five-O, Frasier, Charmed, and Murder, She Wrote. Crowley also appeared on several daytime soaps, including the General Hospital spinoff, Port Charles, Dynasty, Generations, The Bold and the Beautiful, and Falcon Crest.