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- Birth namePatricia Dolores Donlin
- Height5′ 3″ (1.60 m)
- Dolores Donlon was born on September 19, 1920 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Long Wait (1954), Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1956) and Flight to Hong Kong (1956). She was married to Fernando Mendez, Robert de Pasquale and Victor M. Orsatti. She died on November 30, 2012 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
- SpousesFernando Mendez(1974 - ?) (divorced)Robert de Pasquale(November 1962 - ?)Victor M. Orsatti(September 3, 1949 - February 25, 1960) (divorced)
- After being elected "Queen of the New York Press Photographer's Ball" in 1945, soon after her arrival in New York City, she worked as a model for $500 a week, under the name of Pat Van Iver. By the end of the year, her pin-up photograph is voted by more than 300,000 GI's as the "picture of the year." Eight years later, her pin-up (by Stew Sawyer) is named as the best cheesecake shot of 1953, by United Press.
- After marrying New York Philharmonic violinist Robert de Pasquale, with whom she was expecting a baby in May of 1963, she moved to New York City and apparently retired from the big and small screens.
- August 1957 Playmate of the Month.
- Exceptional, voluptuous blonde, a former New York model, who came to Hollywood in the 1940s providing eye candy (sometimes billed as Pat Van Iver) before progressing to featured roles.
- In June of 1960, while on location in Papeete, Tahiti, she suffered from minor heat stroke as she worked in 120-degree temperatures for the Italian-French co-produced film Nude Odyssey (1961) (aka "Naked Odyssey").
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