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: Fifty years later, two guest stars stand out in my mind. Kathleen Crowley was one of those actresses who worked a lot in the '50s. She did several Mavericks and always played charming grifters. Her character's relationship with Maverick was unusual: We didn't trust each other as far as we could throw a bull calf, but we liked each other. And Kathleen was gorgeous. 

December 26th, 1931 in Green Bank, West Virginia  /  Died:   Apr 23rd, 2017