Kathryn Grant
Acting
Born 1933-11-25
Died 2024-09-20
West Columbia, Texas, USA
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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
The Mike Douglas Show
Father Knows Best
What's My Line?
Ben Casey
The Tony Danza Show
Rear Window
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Anatomy of a Murder
Reprisal!
Gunman's Walk
The Bing Crosby Show
Living It Up
The Wild Party
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas
Casanova's Big Night
5 Against the House
Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Mister Cory
The Brothers Rico
Operation Mad Ball
The Initiation of Sarah
Storm Center
The Big Circus
So This Is Love
The Phenix City Story
Tight Spot
Cell 2455 Death Row
Queen of the Lot
1001 Arabian Nights
Unchained
Goldilocks
A Bing Crosby Christmas
Bing Crosby: The Christmas Years
Bing Crosby's Sun Valley Christmas Show
Bing Crosby: The Television Specials Volume 2 – The Christmas Specials
The Night the World Exploded
The Magic of Bing Crosby
A Princess for Magoo
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