Attorney, Author, Political Strategist. His daughter actress/writer, Patricia Bosworth, wrote a memoir of her family life entitled "Anything Your Little Heart Desires: An American Family Story" which was published by Simon and Schuster in 1997. Her father (per the fly leaf) "had a remarkable career that took him from defending Harry Bridges, the controversial head of San Francisco's longshoreman's union, to representing Rita Hayworth in her million-dollar divorce from Prince Aly Khan. His friends, clients and acquaintances included Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie, Paul Robeson, Henry Luce, John Garfield, Lillian Hellman, Orson Welles, J. Edgar Hoover, James Hoffa, William Randolph Hearst, Herb Caen, Earl Warren and John F. Kennedy among others." He came from Irish Catholic roots, his grandparents coming to California during the Gold Rush years and eventually settling in Sacramento where one grandfather became the county sheriff. He held strongly to his Irish Catholic background throughout his life, but was considered a crusading lawyer of the liberal left (one of several attorneys defending the blacklisted Hollywood Ten). He was a Republican strategist for Wendell Willkie as well as an advisor to President Harry Truman who engaged him to be a diplomat after World War II when he (Crum) worked tirelessly on the creation of Israel and relocation of thousands of Holocaust survivors to that region. "Handsome, gifted with dazzling energy and spirit, he charmed everyone around him, until his own demons finally overwhelmed him". He married Anna "Cutsie"Gertrude Bosworth in 1929 and they had two children, Patricia and Bartley, Jr. Like his son (6 years before him), Bartley Cavanaugh Crum, Sr. took his own life in December of 1959 after a cocktail party at his brownstone home in New York City. His body was flown back to his home state of California for burial in the family plot at Historic Sacramento City Cemetery. (His wife "Cutsie" died in 1980 and his daughter Patricia died of COVID in 2020).