Bosworth, Patricia
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Birthname | Patricia Crum | ||||
born on | 24 April 1933 at 21:00 (= 9:00 PM ) | ||||
Place | Oakland, California, 37n48, 122w16 | ||||
Timezone | h0w h0w | ||||
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Biography
American journalist, biographer, memoirist, and actress, perhaps best known for playing Sister Simone, the young friend of Audrey Hepburn's character Sister Luke, in the film The Nun’s Story (1959).
She began her career as a photographic model then appeared on stage, on Broadway, and in films and television roles.
In the mid-1960s, Bosworth left acting to become a journalist. She was a faculty member of Columbia University’s school of journalism as well as Barnard College, and was a winner of the Front Page Award for her journalistic achievement in writing about the Hollywood Blacklist.
Bosworth was the author of bestselling biographies on Montgomery Clift (1978), Diane Arbus (1984), Marlon Brando (2000) and Jane Fonda (2011).
Patricia Bosworth married three times. She died on 2 April 2020 at Mount Sinai West hospital in New York City due to pneumonia and complications from the COVID-19 virus at the age of 86.
Relationships
- associate relationship with Arbus, Diane (born 14 March 1923). Notes: Biographer/ subject
- associate relationship with Brando, Marlon (born 3 April 1924). Notes: Biographer/ subject
- associate relationship with Clift, Montgomery (born 17 October 1920). Notes: Biographer/ subject
- associate relationship with Fonda, Jane (born 21 December 1937). Notes: Biographer/ subject
Events
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield quotes birth notice, San Francisco Examiner, 26 April 1933, page 8, born "at the Peralta Hospital in Oakland on Monday night." A time of 9pm is speculative.
Categories
- Traits : Body : Appearance gorgeous
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Pneumonia
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Other Major diseases (COVID-19)
- Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages (Three)
- Family : Parenting : Birthing - Abortions
- Personal : Death : Illness/ Disease (COVID-19)
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 86)
- Vocation : Beauty : Model
- Vocation : Entertainment : Actor/ Actress
- Vocation : Writers : Autobiographer (Memoirist)
- Vocation : Writers : Biographer
- Vocation : Writers : Columnist/ journalist
- Vocation : Writers : Publisher/ Editor
- Notable : Awards : Vocational award (Front Page Award)
- 1933 births
- Birthday 24 April
- Birthplace Oakland, CA (US)
- Sun 4 Taurus
- Moon 5 Taurus
- Asc 23 Leo
- 2020 deaths
- Traits : Body : Appearance gorgeous
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Pneumonia
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Other Major diseases
- Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages
- Family : Parenting : Birthing - Abortions
- Personal : Death : Illness/ Disease
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs
- Vocation : Beauty : Model
- Vocation : Entertainment : Actor/ Actress
- Vocation : Writers : Autobiographer
- Vocation : Writers : Biographer
- Vocation : Writers : Columnist/ journalist
- Vocation : Writers : Publisher/ Editor
- Notable : Awards : Vocational award