Patricia Harty (actress)

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Patricia Harty
Patricia Harty 1968.JPG
Harty in 1968 publicity photo
Born (1941-11-05) November 5, 1941 (age 82)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
OccupationActress
Years active1963–2003
Spouses
  • E. Thomas Kearney
(m. 1968;div. 1970)
Les Sheldon
(m. 1975)

Patricia Harty (born November 5, 1941), [1] also known professionally as Trisha Hart,[ citation needed ] is an American actress.

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Early years

Born in Washington, D.C., Harty lived in Baltimore until age 5, when she and her family moved. [2] She took lessons in singing and dancing while growing up in North Miami, Florida, [3] and graduated from Miami Edison High School in 1957. [4] She worked for a lawyer, took secretarial classes, [5] and majored in English at Columbia University. [2]

Career

Harty performed in the national company of I Ought to Be in Pictures. [2] On Broadway, Harty's credits include Fiorello! (1959) and Sail Away (1961). [6]

Harty debuted on television as a dancer on Pat Boone's ABC Chevy Show program, [2] and Perry Como's NBC Kraft Music Hall. [3] She was also a featured dancer on Garry Moore's CBS series, where she also performed in comedy skits with Carol Burnett. [2] Harty is known for her starring roles in several short-lived television series, Occasional Wife (1966–67) as Greta Patterson, [7] :778 Blondie (1968) as the titular Blondie Bumstead, [7] The Bob Crane Show (1975) as Ellie Wilcox, [8] and Herbie, the Love Bug (1982) as Susan MacLane. [7] :451 She also appeared on Broadway in Fiorello! [9] and Sail Away . [10]

A review in The New York Times highlighted Harty's work in Occasional Wife, saying "she made a viewer more aware of what was right than wrong" with the show. [11]

Filmography

Personal life

In the mid-1960s, Harty was married to E. Thomas Kearney, who was also her manager. [3] She married Occasional Wife co-star Michael Callan. [8] The marriage ended in divorce. She married Les Sheldon, who had been associate producer on The Bob Crane Show , in 1975. [5]

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