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Name
Kathryn Grant

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1933-11-25

Deathday
2024-09-20 (91 years old)

Place of Birth
West Columbia, Texas, USA

Biography

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.

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

1959 Anatomy of a Murder as Mary Pilant
1954 Rear Window as Girl at Songwriter's Party (uncredited)
1978 The Initiation of Sarah as Mrs. Goodwin
1955 Cell 2455 Death Row as Jo-Anne
1973 Bing Crosby's Sun Valley Christmas Show
1957 The Brothers Rico as Norah Malaks Rico
1955 The Phenix City Story as Ellie Rhodes
1958 Gunman's Walk as Cecily "Clee" Chouard
1957 Operation Mad Ball as Lt. Betty Bixby
1957 The Night the World Exploded as Laura 'Hutch' Hutchinson
1958 The 7th Voyage of Sinbad as Princess Parisa
1959 1001 Arabian Nights as Princess Yasminda (voice)
1955 5 Against the House as Jean, Young Woman in Nightclub (uncredited)
1956 Storm Center as Hazel Levering
2010 Queen of the Lot as Elizabeth Lambert
1970 Goldilocks as Self / Mama Bear (voice)
1956 The Wild Party as Honey
1957 Mister Cory as Jen Vollard
1959 The Big Circus as Jeannie Whirling
1954 Casanova's Big Night as Girl on Bridge (uncredited)
1956 Reprisal! as Taini
1955 Tight Spot as Girl Honeymooner (uncredited)
1957 The Guns of Fort Petticoat as Anne Martin
1998 A Bing Crosby Christmas as Self / Narrator
1959 A Princess for Magoo
2010 Bing Crosby: The Television Specials Volume 2 – The Christmas Specials as Self
1991 The Magic of Bing Crosby as Self
2014 Bing Crosby: Rediscovered as Self
1953 So This Is Love as Showgirl (uncredited)
1977 Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas as Self
1954 Living It Up as Manicurist (uncredited)
1978 Bing Crosby: The Christmas Years as Herself
1991 Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as actress 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1955 Unchained as Sally Haskins

2004 The Tony Danza Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
1961 Ben Casey ( 1 episode )
1964 The Bing Crosby Show ( 1 episode )
1961 The Mike Douglas Show ( 1 episode ) as Self - Co-Host
1950 What's My Line? ( 1 episode ) as Self - Mystery Guest
1954 Father Knows Best ( 1 episode ) as Maxine
1961 The Mike Douglas Show ( 2 episodes ) as Self

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