Pat Marlowe (1933 – 6 August 1962) was an English socialite, party hostess and actress who found minor fame in the 1950s and early 1960s.
[2][3] She left home for London aged fifteen to find success in the entertainment industry and changed her name to Pat Marlowe.
[4] She befriended showbiz entrepreneur and bandleader Jack Hylton in the early 1950s, with whom she had a lengthy relationship and who helped further her career.
[5] She eventually changed her mind about becoming an actress and became a jetsetter and socialite, travelling between New York, Paris, Monte Carlo and the French and Italian Riviera.
[8] After her early stage career had fizzled out, from the mid-1950s Marlowe featured in British gossip columns as an aspiring Hollywood actress and as a socialite.
[7] Marlowe’s celebrity friends besides Hylton and Warner were reported to include Prince Aly Khan, who was said to “adore her” and whom she visited at his house in Sutton Place, Manhattan.
[7] She befriended novelist Graham Greene in Havana in October 1958, when they travelled by plane to New York, where a new Rolls Royce and a chauffeur awaited her at the airport.
[5] In 1987, a newspaper revealed the father to be Max Bygraves who had paid for a £10,000 trust fund in exchange for Marlowe’s silence.
[2] In January 1960 it was reported she had fallen down stairs at a hotel after accidentally taking sleeping pills, an incident later revealed to be a suicide attempt.
[2] On the morning of August 7, 1962, Marlowe was discovered dead in her bed at her house in Mount Row, Mayfair by a decorator working at her home.