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.
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Movies (34)
Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
2014 · Self
Queen of the Lot
2010 · Elizabeth Lambert
Bing Crosby: The Television Specials Volume 2 – The Christmas Specials
2010 · Self
A Bing Crosby Christmas
1998 · Self / Narrator
The Magic of Bing Crosby
1991 · Self
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991 · actress 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bing Crosby: The Christmas Years
1978 · Herself
The Initiation of Sarah
1978 · Mrs. Goodwin
Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas
1977 · Self
Bing Crosby's Sun Valley Christmas Show
1973
Goldilocks
1970 · Self / Mama Bear (voice)
1001 Arabian Nights
1959 · Princess Yasminda (voice)
The Big Circus
1959 · Jeannie Whirling
Anatomy of a Murder
1959 · Mary Pilant
A Princess for Magoo
1959
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
1958 · Princess Parisa
Gunman's Walk
1958 · Cecily "Clee" Chouard
The Brothers Rico
1957 · Norah Malaks Rico
Operation Mad Ball
1957 · Lt. Betty Bixby
The Night the World Exploded
1957 · Laura 'Hutch' Hutchinson
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
1957 · Anne Martin
Mister Cory
1957 · Jen Vollard
The Wild Party
1956 · Honey
Reprisal!
1956 · Taini
Storm Center
1956 · Hazel Levering
Unchained
1955 · Sally Haskins
The Phenix City Story
1955 · Ellie Rhodes
5 Against the House
1955 · Jean, Young Woman in Nightclub (uncredited)
Cell 2455 Death Row
1955 · Jo-Anne
Tight Spot
1955 · Girl Honeymooner (uncredited)
Living It Up
1954 · Manicurist (uncredited)
Rear Window
1954 · Girl at Songwriter's Party (uncredited)
Casanova's Big Night
1954 · Girl on Bridge (uncredited)
So This Is Love
1953 · Showgirl (uncredited)
