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

Early years

Born in Washington, D.C., Harty lived in

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until age 5, when she and her family moved. She took lessons in singing and dancing while growing up in

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, and graduated from Miami Edison High School in 1957. She worked for a lawyer, took secretarial classes, and majored in English at Columbia University.

Career

Harty performed in the national company of ''I Ought to Be in Pictures''. On Broadway, Harty's credits include ''Fiorello!'' (1959) and ''Sail Away'' (1961). Harty debuted on television as a dancer on

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's ABC Chevy Show program, and

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's NBC Kraft Music Hall. She was also a featured dancer on

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's CBS series, where she also performed in comedy skits with

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. Harty is known for her starring roles in several short-lived television series, ''

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'' (1966–67) as Greta Patterson, '' Blondie'' (1968) as the titular Blondie Bumstead, '' The Bob Crane Show'' (1975) as Ellie Wilcox, and '' Herbie, the Love Bug'' (1982) as Susan MacLane. She also appeared on

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in ''

Fiorello! ''Fiorello!'' is a musical about New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia, a reform Republican, which debuted on Broadway in 1959, and tells the story of how La Guardia took on the Tammany Hall political machine. The book is by Jerome Weidman ...

'' and '' Sail Away''. A review in ''

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'' highlighted Harty's work in ''Occasional Wife'', saying "she made a viewer more aware of what was right than wrong" with the show.

Filmography

* 1970 : ''

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'' (TV) season 9 episode 09 ''(The price of the hanging)'' : Tracy

Personal life

In the mid-1960s, Harty was married to E. Thomas Kearney, who was also her manager. She married ''Occasional Wife'' co-star

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. The marriage ended in divorce. She married Les Sheldon, who had been associate producer on '' The Bob Crane Show'', in 1975.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Harty, Patricia Living people American television actresses American musical theatre actresses Actresses from Washington, D.C. 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses 1941 births