Patricia Breslin (1931-2011) had a prominent career in television. The New York City-born actress made the rounds in the early days of television before garnering a recurring role as Amanda Miller for 104 episodes of, The People's Choice (1955–58), starring Jackie Cooper. She guest-starred on many popular shows such as The Millionaire, Maverick, The Rifleman, The Donna Reed Show, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents, to name only a few. The Twilight Zone provided her two appearances, her most famous being, Nick of Time, as the wife of William Shatner. The couple visits a diner that has a fortune-telling machine/napkin holder at their booth. Shatner's obsession with the bouncing devils' head atop it nearly controls their future. Her final recurring roles were on Peyton Place for thirty episodes before ending her acting career with twenty-five appearances on the daytime soap opera, General Hospital.
Breslin left acting in 1969 after marrying her second husband, NFL mogul Art Modell, and became a well-known philanthropist while living in both Cleveland, Ohio, and Baltimore, Maryland. In Cleveland, she helped start the Hospice of the Western Reserve at the Cleveland Clinic and supported the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. She was also active in the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the Cleveland Musical Arts Association, the Cleveland Ballet, the Playhouse Square Foundation, and the Cerebral Palsy Association.
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