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