Kathryn Grant
Actor
- Born
- November 25, 1933 · West Columbia, Texas, USA
- Died
- September 20, 2024 (age 90)
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.
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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
Rear Window
August 1, 1954
Anatomy of a Murder
July 1, 1959
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
December 5, 1958
The Phenix City Story
July 19, 1955
Gunman's Walk
July 15, 1958
5 Against the House
June 10, 1955
The Brothers Rico
August 23, 1957
Tight Spot
March 19, 1955
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
April 1, 1957
Living It Up
August 4, 1954
The Initiation of Sarah
February 6, 1978
Operation Mad Ball
August 17, 1957
Acting34
- 2014Bing Crosby: Rediscovered as Self
- 2010Queen of the Lot as Elizabeth Lambert
- 2010Bing Crosby: The Television Specials Volume 2 – The Christmas Specials as Self
- 1998A Bing Crosby Christmas as Self / Narrator
- 1991The Magic of Bing Crosby as Self
- 1991Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as actress 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1978Bing Crosby: The Christmas Years as Herself
- 1978The Initiation of Sarah as Mrs. Goodwin
- 1977Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas as Self