Patricia Owens

Patricia Owens

Acting 1925-01-17 Golden, British Columbia, Canada

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Patricia Owens (17 January 1925, Golden, British Columbia - 31 August 2000, Lancaster, California) was a Canadian-born American actress, working in Hollywood. She appeared in about 40 films and 10 TV episodes in a career lasting from 1943 to 1968. Canadian-born actress Patricia Owens moved to England with her parents in 1933, and ten years later, at age 18, she made her motion-picture debut in Val Guest's musical comedy Miss London Ltd. The following year, she had a small role in Harold French's social satire English Without Tears. Her career continued in this manner for the next few years, Owens getting ever-larger roles in generally better movies (though not always—the same year in which she worked in the Launder-Gilliat production of The Happiest Days of Your Life, one of the funniest movies ever made in England, she also appeared in the abysmal Old Mother Riley, Headmistress). Her career took a giant step upward when she was seen by a 20th Century Fox executive while performing in a theatrical production of Sabrina Fair and was offered a screen test. The result was a contract with the studio and a move to Hollywood. Her first American film was Island in the Sun (1957) for Fox, and then Owens was loaned out to Warner Bros. to play opposite Marlon Brando in the drama Sayonara (1957), one of the most critically acclaimed movies of the year. Owens spent the rest of 1957 working mostly on loan-out, but it was a 1958 Fox production that secured her place in motion picture history—as Helene Delambre, the wife of scientist Andre Delambre in The Fly (1958), co-starring with David Hedison and Vincent Price. Owens carried much of the film's story and drama, which were told in flashback from her character's point-of-view. The Fly was one of the most successful science fiction movies of the decade; the image of Owens unmasking her stricken husband and screaming at what she sees—and the shot of her horrified visage seen in a "fly's eye" view—became one of the defining moments in the genre. Unfortunately for Owens, she never got another movie half as good as The Fly, from Fox or anyone else, and in 1961 was reduced to working in the threadbare, backlot POW/jungle chase drama Seven Women from Hell. Owens made occasional television appearances, on series such as Perry Mason and Burke's Law, but these were relatively infrequent. Owens also starred in one of the 17 episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents directed by Hitchcock himself, "The Crystal Trench" (1959). By 1965, she was working in Black Spurs, one of producer A.C. Lyles' B-Westerns, renowned for their use of aging genre stars, and Owens retired from movies after portraying Richard Egan's love interest in the low-budget espionage thriller The Destructors (1968). Her last professional appearance was in a 1968 episode of Lassie. She was the third wife of screenwriter and producer Sy Bartlett. Description above from the Wikipedia article Patricia Owens (actress), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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1968 Charlie
1965 Clare
1963 Ellen Sheppard
1963 Sharon O'Brien
1961 Grace Ingram
1961 Margaret Brandon
1961
1960 Sheila Lincoln
1959 Joyce
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1959 Joy
1959 Rusty Haynes
1958 Helene Delambre
1958 Peggy
1958 Lucy Martin
1957 Eileen Webster
1957 Sylvia Fleury
1957 Jean Martin
1957 Sally Parker
1957 June Burgess
1956 Betty Hartley
1955 Connie Lee
1955 Nora
1955 Stella Ballister
1954 Blonde (as Pat Owens)
1954 Mary (segment "Final Twist' story)
1954 Winnie
1954
1953 Betty Hartley
1953 Joan
1953 Lady Vivien (uncredited)
1952 Willow, Opal's Companion (as Pat Owens)
1952 Party Girl (Joyce)
1952 Self
1951 Mabel Dawn (as Pat Owens)
1950 Anna Hastings
1950 Angela Parry
1944 (uncredited)
1943 Miss London