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Kathryn Grant

Kathryn Grant

Acting1933West Columbia, Texas, USA

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.

Acting History

2004
The Tony Danza Show
TVas Self1 eps
1998
A Bing Crosby Christmas
as Self / Narrator
1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as actress 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1970
Goldilocks
as Self / Mama Bear (voice)
1961
The Mike Douglas Show
TVas Self / Self - Co-Host
1959
Anatomy of a Murder
as Mary Pilant
1001 Arabian Nights
as Princess Yasminda (voice)
The Big Circus
as Jeannie Whirling
1958
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
as Princess Parisa
Gunman's Walk
as Cecily "Clee" Chouard
What's My Line?
TVas Self - Mystery Guest1 eps
1957
Operation Mad Ball
as Lt. Betty Bixby
The Night the World Exploded
as Laura 'Hutch' Hutchinson
Mister Cory
as Jen Vollard
The Brothers Rico
as Norah Malaks Rico
1956
Reprisal!
as Taini
Storm Center
as Hazel Levering
1955
The Phenix City Story
as Ellie Rhodes
5 Against the House
as Jean, Young Woman in Nightclub (uncredited)
Tight Spot
as Girl Honeymooner (uncredited)
Unchained
as Sally Haskins
Father Knows Best
TVas Maxine1 eps
1954
Casanova's Big Night
as Girl on Bridge (uncredited)
Living It Up
as Manicurist (uncredited)
Rear Window
as Girl at Songwriter's Party (uncredited)
1953
So This Is Love
as Showgirl (uncredited)

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
11/25/1933
Day of Death
9/20/2024
Place of Birth
West Columbia, Texas, USA