Background
Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the sixth of nine children born to Rose (née Fitzgerald) and Joseph P. Kennedy, Senior
Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the sixth of nine children born to Rose (née Fitzgerald) and Joseph P. Kennedy, Senior
Pat wanted to be a film producer, a profession not readily open to young women in her time. Since childhood she had a fascination with travel and Hollywood. In time she would become a world traveler, so much so that as a young girl she was given assignments by the independent and foreign press to write of her travels.
Her ongoing fascination with Hollywood was fueled by her father"s stories and adventures there as a movie mogul heading Radio-Keith-Orpheum Pictures.
After graduating from Rosemont College, she moved to Hollywood in hopes of becoming a movie producer and director like her father. Her father apparently believed that she could do as much, once saying, "Pat is the one with head for business.
After her divorce, battled alcoholism and suffered from tongue cancer. died at the age of 82 on September 17, 2006 in her Manhattan home from pneumonia. She was buried in Southampton Cemetery.