Patricia Owens
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| Name: | Patricia Owens | |
| Status | Deceased | |
| Age: | 75 (January 17, 1925 -August 31, 2000) | |
| IMDB: | IMDb | |
| TMDB: | TMDB | |
| Smoking Status: | Unknown | |
| Type of Celebrity: | Actor | |
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| TMDB Popularity | 7.986 | |
| Biography (TMDB): | 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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Movies
Five Gates to Hell
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smokingsides
Early in the movie, while seated at a desk in her white nurse's uniform, Patricia Owens hangs a cigarette between her lips and lights it with a match. Later, she does the same thing while being held prisoner in a Communist guerrilla camp. |
Ghost Ship
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smokingsides
appears unbilled as a party guest. She has no lines but in one scene she takes a deep drag from her cigarette and exhales a heavy cloud of smoke. |
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[Marguilles] lights up with a faint exhale about 20 minutes into the movie. Shortly after the light-up, Marguilles has a better exhale that is broken up by a quick cut-away. Still, the exhale is good and she looks hot. |
Hell to Eternity
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smokingsides
Patricia Owens is on screen for about twenty minutes, and she spends the first fifteen minutes or so constantly smoking and drinking. She stops only when she decides to do a modified striptease for Jeffrey Hunter. |
House of Blackmail
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smokingsides
At the five minute mark of the movie, [she] dangles an all white while accepting a light. She takes a deep drag and exhales a large cloud of smoke. The scene continues for about thirty more seconds, during which Patricia takes two more deep drags and exhales a heavy cloud of smoke each time. |
Mystery Junction
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At the 10-15 [minute] mark of the movie, a detective is questioning the passengers of a train in which a murder has just been commmitted. During this scene, Patricia Owens takes three deep drags off an almost fully smoked cigarette. At the 45-46 minute mark, while in a train station, Patricia takes two heavy drags off of an all-white cigarette and exhales a large amount of smoke each time. |
The Fly
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smokingsides
One holding scene in which Patricia Owens is seated on a couch with a cigarette in her left hand. She stabs it out in an ashtray as Vincent Price and Herbert Marshall enter the room to talk to her about her husband's murder. You have to look fast to notice it. |
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smokingsides
Geena really seems to enjoy these Marlboro's in two lighting-up scenes. 4 drags overall. [smoked] MR 100's |
X-15
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smokingsides
[Moore] in her car in the first 5 minutes of the movie, a pretty good close-up |
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