31 Facts About Patricia Bosworth

Patricia Bosworth was an American journalist, biographer, memoirist, and actress.

Patricia Bosworth was a faculty member of Columbia University's school of journalism as well as Barnard College, and was a winner of the Front Page Award for her journalistic achievement in writing about the Hollywood Blacklist.

Patricia Bosworth grew up especially close to her younger brother, Bartley Crum Jr.

Patricia Bosworth's career suffered during the fallout from the Blacklist, and the family moved from California to New York in late 1948.

In California, Bosworth was educated at Miss Burke's School and the Convent of the Sacred Heart.

Patricia Bosworth studied at Sarah Lawrence College, graduating in 1955 with a major in dance and writing.

Patricia Bosworth was hired by Diane and Allan Arbus to pose for a magazine ad for the Greyhound bus company.

Shortly after her college graduation, Patricia Bosworth became a member of the Actors Studio in Manhattan, where she studied under Lee Strasberg.

Patricia Bosworth appeared in several Broadway shows during the 1950s and 1960s, including Inherit the Wind, Small War on Murray Hill, and Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary.

Patricia Bosworth played Elaine Stritch's sister in the drama The Sin of Pat Muldoon and a motormouthed teen based on the young Nora Ephron in Phoebe Ephron's comedy Howie.

Patricia Bosworth worked regularly on popular television series, including Naked City, Kraft Theater The Secret Storm, Young Dr Malone, and The Patty Duke Show.

Patricia Bosworth can be seen in the film Four Boys and a Gun as James Franciscus's wife and as a disgruntled redhead in the audience of Bert Stern's 1960 cult documentary Jazz on a Summer's Day, about the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.

Patricia Bosworth received an abortion at an underground abortionist in Manhattan.

Patricia Bosworth gained notice as a writer with several Broadway-focused features and interviews published in New York magazine and The New York Times.

From 1969 to 1972, Patricia Bosworth was senior editor of McCall's; she served as managing editor of Harper's Bazaar from 1972 to 1974.

Patricia Bosworth was an editor at Mirabella from 1993 to 1995.

Patricia Bosworth was first hired as a contributing editor at Vanity Fair in 1984 under Tina Brown's editorship of the magazine, and she served in this capacity until 1991.

Patricia Bosworth continued to freelance for the magazine until 1997 when she rejoined as contributing editor under Graydon Carter's leadership, a position she held to the end of her life.

Patricia Bosworth was the author of bestselling biographies on Montgomery Clift, Diane Arbus, Marlon Brando and Jane Fonda.

Patricia Bosworth spoke to many of Clift's close friends and colleagues.

Patricia Bosworth's biography of Arbus, a photographer known for her poetic approach to eccentric and abnormal subjects, was a nuanced appraisal of the artist that investigated the lurid details of her life, culminating in Arbus's 1971 suicide.

Patricia Bosworth's work is still widely considered to be the definitive biography of Arbus; it was the inspiration for Steven Shainberg's 2006 film Fur, which starred Nicole Kidman as Diane Arbus and Ty Burrell and Robert Downey Jr.

Patricia Bosworth provides a fine, detailed sketch of his New York days when he took acting classes with Harry Belafonte, Elaine Stritch, Gene Saks, Shelley Winters, Rod Steiger and Kim Stanley, and presents a great portrait of the craziness on the set of Last Tango in Paris ", but in only 228 pages, the author "can't approach the complexity of her earlier work.

Patricia Bosworth spent 10 years completing a biography of Jane Fonda, with whom she had attended sessions at the Actors Studio in the 1950s and 1960s.

Patricia Bosworth received the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention's Lifesavers Award in 1998.

In 2018, Patricia Bosworth released Dreamer with a Thousand Thrills: The Rediscovered Photographs of Tom Palumbo, published by powerHouse Books.

Patricia Bosworth was working on Protest Song at the time of her death.

Patricia Bosworth married novelist and playwright Mel Arrighi in 1966; the two collaborated on several projects outside of their individual work.

Patricia Bosworth learned that she was pregnant on the same day that she was cast as Simone for the film The Nun's Story.

Patricia Bosworth underwent an underground abortion immediately before leaving for Rome and began to hemorrhage while on the plane.

Patricia Bosworth died from pneumonia and complications of COVID-19 at Mount Sinai West hospital in New York City on April 2,2020.