Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 25, 1933
Died
Sep 20, 2024
Place of Birth
West Columbia, Texas, USA
Credits
40 titles
Kathryn Grant
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
Filmography
Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
Self
Queen of the Lot
Elizabeth Lambert
Bing Crosby: The Television Specials Volume 2 – The Christmas Specials
Self
The Tony Danza Show
Self
A Bing Crosby Christmas
Self / Narrator
The Magic of Bing Crosby
Self
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
actress 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bing Crosby: The Christmas Years
Herself
The Initiation of Sarah
Mrs. Goodwin
Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas
Self
Bing Crosby's Sun Valley Christmas Show
Goldilocks
Self / Mama Bear (voice)
The Bing Crosby Show
The Mike Douglas Show
Self - Co-Host
Ben Casey
1001 Arabian Nights
Princess Yasminda (voice)
The Big Circus
Jeannie Whirling
Anatomy of a Murder
Mary Pilant
A Princess for Magoo
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Princess Parisa
Gunman's Walk
Cecily "Clee" Chouard
The Brothers Rico
Norah Malaks Rico
Operation Mad Ball
Lt. Betty Bixby
The Night the World Exploded
Laura 'Hutch' Hutchinson
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
Anne Martin
Mister Cory
Jen Vollard
The Wild Party
Honey
Reprisal!
Taini
Storm Center
Hazel Levering
Unchained
Sally Haskins
The Phenix City Story
Ellie Rhodes
5 Against the House
Jean, Young Woman in Nightclub (uncredited)
Cell 2455 Death Row
Jo-Anne
Tight Spot
Girl Honeymooner (uncredited)
Father Knows Best
Maxine
Living It Up
Manicurist (uncredited)
Rear Window
Girl at Songwriter's Party (uncredited)
Casanova's Big Night
Girl on Bridge (uncredited)
So This Is Love
Showgirl (uncredited)
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest