SAD NEWS: TV legend Patricia Crowley D1ES at 91

Patricia Crowley, who played Emily Fallmont during the sixth season of the hugely successful 1980s soap opera Dynasty, has d!ed of natural causes at the age of 91, her son, Jon Hookstratten, executive VP of administration and operations at Sony Pictures Entertainment, confirmed. She p@ssed away on Sunday, September 14, in Los Angeles.

Tributes flooded in for the star as the news broke. “A beautiful and talented actress. May her memory be a blessing,” one fan wrote on Facebook. “I remember Please Don’t Eat The Daisies…great actress..love that show!” another penned. A third chimed in: “Oh no. She was gorgeous until the end. I remember her on The Twilight Zone and Love American Style.” Meanwhile, a fourth added: “Oh my gosh. I loved her! I met her in Chicago around 1992/1993. Just delightful.”

Her role on Dynasty, in which she starred opposite Joan Collins and John Forsythe, ended in 1986 when her character, who was married to a senator and had an affair with his son, was struck by a taxi and k!lled.

Meanwhile, her other huge TV hit, Don’t Eat The Daisies, ran for two seasons and 58 episodes from 1965-67. The comedy series saw her play Joan Nash, a newspaper journalist with four sons who was married to a college professor, played by Mark Miller. It came after the 1960 movie version, which starred Doris Day and David Niven.

She began her career in 1950, making her Broadway debut while still a senior in high school, playing the lead in the comedy Southern Exposure. She quickly moved to television, appearing in a live episode of CBS’s The Ford Theatre Hour opposite Jack Lemmon and Jack Albertson.

In 1951, she portrayed a spoiled teenager on the ABC Saturday afternoon show A Date With Judy, which had begun life as a popular radio program. Prior to that, she appeared in a 1948 movie starring Jane Powell.

In what proved to be a busy decade, she also appeared in the 1954 Rosemary Clooney musical Red Garters, the Tony Curtis boxing drama The Square Jungle, and the 1956 Audie Murphy western Walk the Proud Land.

Throughout her career, she would have many more memorable TV roles. She starred in the pilot episodes of both The Untouchables in 1959 and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. in 1964.

She also had roles on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Twilight Zone, The Fugitive, 77 Sunset Strip, The Rockford Files, Friends, The Love Boat, Beverly Hills 90210, General Hospital, The Bold and the Beautiful, and dozens of other shows. Her last onscreen appearance was in 2012 with a role in the film Mont Reve.

Her first husband was the late sports and entertainment attorney Ed Hookstratten, who represented the likes of Elvis Presley and Johnny Carson,. From 1986, she was married to television producer and executive Andy Friendly, who has worked on Entertainment Tonight and Tom Snyder’s The Tomorrow Show.

Alongside her husband and son, she is survived by her daughter, Ann; son-in-law Robert; daughter-in-law Marion; five grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.