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.
Known For
Credits
- 2014 · Bing Crosby: Rediscovered as Self
- 2010 · Queen of the Lot as Elizabeth Lambert
- 2010 · Bing Crosby: The Television Specials Volume 2 – The Christmas Specials as Self
- 2004 · The Tony Danza Show as Self
- 1998 · A Bing Crosby Christmas as Self / Narrator
- 1991 · The Magic of Bing Crosby as Self
- 1991 · Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as actress 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1978 · Bing Crosby: The Christmas Years as Herself
- 1978 · The Initiation of Sarah as Mrs. Goodwin
- 1977 · Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas as Self
- 1973 · Bing Crosby's Sun Valley Christmas Show as
- 1970 · Goldilocks as Self / Mama Bear (voice)
- 1964 · The Bing Crosby Show as
- 1961 · The Mike Douglas Show as Self - Co-Host
- 1961 · The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- 1961 · Ben Casey as
- 1959 · 1001 Arabian Nights as Princess Yasminda (voice)
- 1959 · The Big Circus as Jeannie Whirling
- 1959 · Anatomy of a Murder as Mary Pilant
- 1959 · A Princess for Magoo as
- 1958 · The 7th Voyage of Sinbad as Princess Parisa
- 1958 · Gunman's Walk as Cecily "Clee" Chouard
- 1957 · The Brothers Rico as Norah Malaks Rico
- 1957 · Operation Mad Ball as Lt. Betty Bixby
- 1957 · The Night the World Exploded as Laura 'Hutch' Hutchinson
- 1957 · The Guns of Fort Petticoat as Anne Martin
- 1957 · Mister Cory as Jen Vollard
- 1956 · The Wild Party as Honey
- 1956 · Reprisal! as Taini
- 1956 · Storm Center as Hazel Levering
- 1955 · The Phenix City Story as Ellie Rhodes
- 1955 · 5 Against the House as Jean, Young Woman in Nightclub (uncredited)
- 1955 · Cell 2455 Death Row as Jo-Anne
- 1955 · Tight Spot as Girl Honeymooner (uncredited)
- 1954 · Father Knows Best as Maxine
- 1954 · Rear Window as Girl at Songwriter's Party (uncredited)
- 1954 · Living It Up as Manicurist (uncredited)
- 1954 · Casanova's Big Night as Girl on Bridge (uncredited)
- 1953 · So This Is Love as Showgirl (uncredited)
- 1950 · What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest