Patricia Bosworth dies from coronavirus

Patricia Bosworth dies from corona virus at 86

Patricia Bosworth was born on April 24, 1933 in Oakland, California, USA as Patricia Crum. She was an actress and writer, known for Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006), Kraft Television Theatre (1947) and The Edge of Night (1956). She was married to Mel Arrighi. She died on April 2, 2020 in New York City, New York, USA. Patricia Bosworth, an actress who once starred alongside Audrey Hepburn and later wrote biographies on several stars including Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift, has died due to the coronavirus. She was 86.

Bosworth’s stepdaughter, Fia Hatsav, told The New York Times that pneumonia brought on by the virus was the cause of death. Bosworth died on Thursday in New York.

Bosworth played a nun opposite of Hepburn in the 1959 classic “The Nun’s Story.” Along with penning bios for Brando and Clift, she also wrote biographies on actress Jane Fonda and famed photographer Diane Arbus, who photographed Bosworth in a Greyhound bus advertisement.