Kathryn Crosby (born November 25, 1933) is 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. Since Bing Crosby's death in 1977, she has taken 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kathryn Crosby, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie | Queen of the Lot | Elizabeth Lambert | 2010-11-19 |
Series | Gilmore Girls | Unknown | 2000-10-05 |
Movie | A Bing Crosby Christmas | Self / Narrator | 1998-01-01 |
Movie | The Magic of Bing Crosby | Self | 1991-10-29 |
Movie | The Initiation of Sarah | Mrs. Goodwin | 1978-02-06 |
Series | The Bing Crosby Show | Unknown | 1964-09-14 |
Series | Ben Casey | Unknown | 1961-10-02 |
Movie | The Big Circus | Jeannie Whirling | 1959-07-05 |
Movie | Gunman's Walk | Cecily "Clee" Chouard | 1958-07-01 |
Movie | The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | Princess Parisa | 1958-12-05 |
Movie | The Guns of Fort Petticoat | Anne Martin | 1957-04-01 |
Movie | Mister Cory | Jen Vollard | 1957-02-23 |
Movie | Operation Mad Ball | Lt. Betty Bixby | 1957-08-17 |
Movie | The Night the World Exploded | Laura 'Hutch' Hutchinson | 1957-06-14 |
Movie | The Brothers Rico | Norah Malaks Rico | 1957-09-01 |
Movie | Storm Center | Hazel Levering | 1956-07-31 |
Movie | The Wild Party | Honey | 1956-12-21 |
Movie | Reprisal! | Taini | 1956-11-02 |
Movie | 5 Against the House | Jean, Young Woman in Nightclub (uncredited) | 1955-06-10 |
Movie | Unchained | Sally Haskins | 1955-08-25 |
Movie | The Phenix City Story | Ellie Rhodes | 1955-07-19 |
Movie | Casanova's Big Night | Girl on Bridge (uncredited) | 1954-04-07 |
Movie | Rear Window | Girl at Songwriter's Party (uncredited) | 1954-08-01 |
Movie | So This Is Love | Showgirl (uncredited) | 1953-07-15 |
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