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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.

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En 1933, ses parents et elle quittent le Canada pour s'établir au Royaume-Uni. Aussi, Patricia Owens débute au cinéma (un petit rôle) dans un film musical britannique sorti en 1943, Miss London Ltd. de Val Guest. En tout, elle contribue à vingt-et-un films britanniques, le dernier (Alive on Saturday) sorti en 1957. Cependant, ses apparitions dans des films comme Les Chevaliers de la table ronde (1953) et L'âge de la violence (1954) Ne sont pas encore accrédité. L'occasion est venue quand l'actrice est en vedette dans le théâtre de comédie romantique Foire Sabrina, quand elle est remarqué par un agent de la Twentieth Century Fox qui lui a vaut une audition. Elle a fait ses débuts dans le film Île au soleil (1957), Mélodrame haine raciale, rapidement suivi par Un cri dans la nuit (1957). Dans la même année, elle a tourne avec la Warner Brothers à côté de l'étoile Marlon Brando dans "Sayonara" (1957).

Le pic de la carrière de l'actrice est venue l'année suivante, d'abord avec le rôle de Peggy dans "Le trésor du pendu" (1958), aux côté de Robert Taylor et Richard Widmark, puis dans "La mouche noire" (1958), Dans lequel elle joue le rôle d'Helene Delambre, l'épouse du scientifique (David Hedison) qui tente une expérience qui le transforme en mouche, le personnage principal féminin qui narre dans un flash-back la tragique histoire.

Owens a continué à apparaître dans les drames et aventure "Enfer pour l'éternité" (1960) "7 femmes de l'enfer" (1961), L'histoire d'un groupe de femmes qui fuient un camp de concentration japonais et "X-15" (1961), Elle intensifie ses apparitions sur le petit écran dans les séries telles que "Alfred Hitchcock" (1959) "les intouchables" (1963) "La loi de Burke" (1966) et "Perry Mason" (1966).

Dans la seconde moitié du sixties sa carriére s'éssouffle , elle n'aura duré un peu plus de dix ans, avec les deux dernières apparitions au cinéma, le premier dans 'Les éperons Noirs' (1965) Et le deuxième "The Destructor" (1968), Un thriller d'espionnage pas cher dans lequel elle joue aux côtés de Richard Egan. L'abandon de sa carrière et le retrait définitif sur les plateaux ont eu lieu après une apparition télévisée finale dans un épisode de la série "Lassie" (1968).

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Patricia Owens marié trois fois, d'abord en 1956 avec le producteur et scénariste Sy Bartlett, dont elle divorce en 1958. Le second un bref mariage (1960-1961) Avec Jerome Nathanson, dont elle eu un fils, Adam. Puis en 1969 elle épouse en troisième noce John Austin, dont elle divorce en 1975.

Elle décéde en 2000 d'un cancer.

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