Celebrity Biographies
Patricia Bosworth
He participated as an actress in “History of a nun”, along with Audrey Hepburn, but later he dedicated himself to writing biographies of stars. Patricia Bosworth passed away on April 2, 2020, in New York, from pneumonia aggravated by the coronavirus.
Born on April 24, 1933 in Oakland, California, Patricia Crum (her real name) was the daughter of a lawyer and novelist Anna Gertrude Bosworth. After specializing in dance and writing at Sarah Lawrence College, she began a career as a model, eventually being recruited by the famous photographer Diane Arbus for a campaign for a well-known bus company. She later studied at the Actors Studio, and made her stage debut, in the first production directed by Arthur Penn .
After some television role, he made his debut on the big screen with Four Boys and a Gun , forgotten drama. But she is most remembered for her memorable work in A Nun’s Story , directed in 1959 by Fred Zinnemann , where she was a novice alongside Audrey Hepburn , but ended up leaving the convent realizing she had no calling. Filming had to be delayed because Patricia Bosworth had to undergo surgery at the hospital, after suffering bleeding. Four years later, since she did not get many roles, except in some series, she decided to abandon her career as an interpreter to become a journalist.
In 1966 she married the actor and screenwriter Mel Arrighi. Ella Patricia Bosworth she ended up specializing in biographies of stars, such as Marlon Brando , whom she portrayed in a best-selling book. She also wrote the life of the aforementioned Arbus, in a volume that led to the film Portrait of an Obsession , where Nicole Kidman played the camera artist.