Patricia Bosworth

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Patricia Bosworth (* 24. April 1933 in San Francisco , California as Patricia Crum ; † 2. April 2020 in New York City ) was an American actress , journalist and author .

Life

Patricia Bosworth was born in 1933 to lawyer and writer Bartley Crum and grew up with a younger brother. She attended Sarah Lawrence College . In 1955 she graduated from there. Bosworth now attended The Actors Studio in New York City . In the further course of the 1950s and 1960s she appeared in a variety of Broadway performances, television series and movies. Perhaps her best-known appearance was in 1959 as the best friend of Audrey Hepburn's character in the drama Tale of a Nun , directed by Fred Zinnemann .

In the 1960s, she decided to quit acting and instead began working as a journalist. She wrote for New York magazine and the New York Times newspaper . From 1984 to 1991 and again from 1997 she worked as an editor at Vanity Fair . Bosworth wrote a number of biographies on personalities such as Montgomery Clift , Marlon Brando, and Jane Fonda . She published her memoirs with Anything Your Little Heart Desires: An American Family Story and The Men in My Life: A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950s Manhattan . Her biography to Diane Arbus was founded in 2006 by director Steven Shainberg with Nicole Kidman in the lead role filmed .

Furthermore they are non-fictional taught literature at the School of Journalism of Columbia University and at Barnard College .

Bosworth was married to Mel Arrighi in his first marriage from 1966 to 1986 and in his second marriage to the photographer and theater director Tom Palumbo from 2002 until his death. Both marriages remained childless. She died in early April 2020 at the age of 86 as a result of SARS-CoV-2 infection during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1957: On the Edge of the Road (Four Boys and a Gun)
  • 1959: The Nun's Story (The Nun's Story)
  • 1960–1961: Merciless City (TV series, two episodes)
  • 1963: The Patty Duke Show (TV series, episode)

Publications

  • Montgomery Clift (1978)
  • Diane Arbus: A Biography (1984)
  • Anything your little heart desires: An American Family Story (1997)
  • Marlon Brando (2000)
  • Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman (2011)
  • The Men in My Life: A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950's Manhattan (2018)
  • Dreamer With a Thousand Thrills: The Rediscovered Photographs of Tom Palumbo (2018)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Patricia Bosworth
  2. ↑ Patricia Bosworth, Hollywood Actress-Turned-Chronicler, Dies From Coronavirus Complications at 86. Retrieved on April 4, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bosworth, Patricia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crum, Patricia (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist, actress, and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco , California
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 2020
Place of death New York City