Kathryn Crosby (November 25, 1933 - September 20, 2024) was an American actress and singer who also performed under the stage-name Kathryn Grant.
Kathryn Crosby (November 25, 1933 - September 20, 2024) was an American actress and singer who also performed under the stage-name Kathryn Grant.
Born Olive Kathryn Grandstaff in Houston, Texas, she graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1955. Two years later she became Bing Crosby's second wife. The couple had three children, Harry, Mary Frances, and Nathaniel. She appeared as a guest star on her husband's 1964–1965 ABC sitcom The Bing Crosby Show.
She largely retired after their marriage, but did have a featured role in the courtroom drama Anatomy of a Murder. She also played the part of "Mama Bear" alongside her husband and children in Goldilocks and starred with Jack Lemmon in Operation Mad Ball in 1957.
In the mid-1970s, she hosted The Kathryn Crosby Show, a 30-minute local talk-show on KPIX-TV in San Francisco. Husband Bing appeared as a guest occasionally.
After Bing Crosby's death in 1977, she took on a few smaller roles and the lead in the short-lived 1996 Broadway musical State Fair.
For 16 years ending in 2001, Crosby hosted the Crosby National Golf Tournament at Bermuda Run Country Club in Bermuda Run, North Carolina. A nearby bridge carrying U.S. Route 158 over the Yadkin River is named for Crosby.
On November 4, 2010, Crosby was seriously injured in an automobile accident in the Sierra Nevada that killed her 85-year-old husband, Maurice William Sullivan.
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Filmography (Movies)
Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
Character:Self
Release Date:02/12/2014
Queen of the Lot
Character:Elizabeth Lambert
Release Date:19/11/2010
Bing Crosby: The Television Specials Volume 2 – The Christmas Specials
Character:Self
Release Date:09/11/2010
A Bing Crosby Christmas
Character:Self / Narrator
Release Date:01/01/1998
The Magic of Bing Crosby
Character:Self
Release Date:29/10/1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Character:actress 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Release Date:28/10/1991
Bing Crosby: The Christmas Years
Character:Herself
Release Date:06/12/1978
The Initiation of Sarah
Character:Mrs. Goodwin
Release Date:06/02/1978
Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas
Character:Self
Release Date:30/11/1977
Bing Crosby's Sun Valley Christmas Show
Character:
Release Date:09/12/1973
Goldilocks
Character:Self / Mama Bear (voice)
Release Date:31/03/1970
1001 Arabian Nights
Character:Princess Yasminda (voice)
Release Date:01/12/1959
The Big Circus
Character:Jeannie Whirling
Release Date:05/07/1959
Anatomy of a Murder
Character:Mary Pilant
Release Date:01/07/1959
A Princess for Magoo
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1959
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Character:Princess Parisa
Release Date:05/12/1958
Gunman's Walk
Character:Cecily "Clee" Chouard
Release Date:15/07/1958
The Brothers Rico
Character:Norah Malaks Rico
Release Date:23/08/1957
Operation Mad Ball
Character:Lt. Betty Bixby
Release Date:17/08/1957
The Night the World Exploded
Character:Laura 'Hutch' Hutchinson
Release Date:14/06/1957
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
Character:Anne Martin
Release Date:01/04/1957
Mister Cory
Character:Jen Vollard
Release Date:23/02/1957
The Wild Party
Character:Honey
Release Date:21/12/1956
Reprisal!
Character:Taini
Release Date:02/11/1956
Storm Center
Character:Hazel Levering
Release Date:31/07/1956
Unchained
Character:Sally Haskins
Release Date:25/08/1955
The Phenix City Story
Character:Ellie Rhodes
Release Date:19/07/1955
5 Against the House
Character:Jean, Young Woman in Nightclub (uncredited)
Release Date:10/06/1955
Cell 2455 Death Row
Character:Jo-Anne
Release Date:19/04/1955
Tight Spot
Character:Girl Honeymooner (uncredited)
Release Date:19/03/1955
Living It Up
Character:Manicurist (uncredited)
Release Date:04/08/1954
Rear Window
Character:Girl at Songwriter's Party (uncredited)
Release Date:01/08/1954
Casanova's Big Night
Character:Girl on Bridge (uncredited)
Release Date:07/04/1954
So This Is Love
Character:Showgirl (uncredited)
Release Date:15/07/1953
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