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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 25, 1933
Died
September 20, 2024
Place of Birth
West Columbia, Texas, USA
Also Known As
- Olive Kathryn Grandstaff
- Kathryn Grant Crosby
- Kathryn Grant-Crosby
- Kathryn Crosby
- Kathryn Grandstaff
Kathryn Grant
1.1 Popularity
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
7.0
Self
Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
2014
2.6
Elizabeth Lambert
Queen of the Lot
2010
0.0
Self
Bing Crosby: The Television Specials Volume 2 – The Christmas Specials
2010
🎬
6.1
Self
The Tony Danza Show
2004
0.0
Self / Narrator
A Bing Crosby Christmas
1998
0.0
Self
The Magic of Bing Crosby
1991
7.7
actress 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
0.0
Herself
Bing Crosby: The Christmas Years
1978
5.5
Mrs. Goodwin
The Initiation of Sarah
1978
5.3
Self
Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas
1977
Credits
Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
as Self
2014
7.0
Queen of the Lot
as Elizabeth Lambert
2010
2.6
Bing Crosby: The Television Specials Volume 2 – The Christmas Specials
as Self
2010
0.0
🎬
The Tony Danza Show
as Self
2004
6.1
A Bing Crosby Christmas
as Self / Narrator
1998
0.0
The Magic of Bing Crosby
as Self
1991
0.0
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as actress 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1991
7.7
Bing Crosby: The Christmas Years
as Herself
1978
0.0
The Initiation of Sarah
as Mrs. Goodwin
1978
5.5
Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas
as Self
1977
5.3
Bing Crosby's Sun Valley Christmas Show
1973
8.0
Goldilocks
as Self / Mama Bear (voice)
1970
0.0
The Bing Crosby Show
1964
5.0
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self - Co-Host
1961
5.4
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
Ben Casey
1961
5.6
1001 Arabian Nights
as Princess Yasminda (voice)
1959
5.7
The Big Circus
as Jeannie Whirling
1959
6.5
Anatomy of a Murder
as Mary Pilant
1959
7.8
🎬
A Princess for Magoo
1959
0.0
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
as Princess Parisa
1958
6.9
Gunman's Walk
as Cecily "Clee" Chouard
1958
6.6
The Brothers Rico
as Norah Malaks Rico
1957
6.1
Operation Mad Ball
as Lt. Betty Bixby
1957
6.6
The Night the World Exploded
as Laura 'Hutch' Hutchinson
1957
4.7
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
as Anne Martin
1957
6.3
Mister Cory
as Jen Vollard
1957
5.7
The Wild Party
as Honey
1956
5.8
Reprisal!
as Taini
1956
7.2
Storm Center
as Hazel Levering
1956
6.6
Unchained
as Sally Haskins
1955
0.0
The Phenix City Story
as Ellie Rhodes
1955
6.6
5 Against the House
as Jean, Young Woman in Nightclub (uncredited)
1955
5.9
Cell 2455 Death Row
as Jo-Anne
1955
5.2
Tight Spot
as Girl Honeymooner (uncredited)
1955
6.4
Father Knows Best
as Maxine
1954
6.5
Living It Up
as Manicurist (uncredited)
1954
6.4
Rear Window
as Girl at Songwriter's Party (uncredited)
1954
8.3
Casanova's Big Night
as Girl on Bridge (uncredited)
1954
5.8
So This Is Love
as Showgirl (uncredited)
1953
3.8
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
1950
6.9