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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…
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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.
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2014
Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
Movie Self
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2010
Queen of the Lot
Movie Elizabeth Lambert
- 2010
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2004
The Tony Danza Show
TV show Self
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1998
A Bing Crosby Christmas
Movie Self / Narrator
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1991
The Magic of Bing Crosby
Movie Self
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1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Movie actress 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1978
Bing Crosby: The Christmas Years
Movie Herself
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1978
The Initiation of Sarah
Movie Mrs. Goodwin
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1977
Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas
Movie Self
- 1973
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1970
Goldilocks
Movie Self / Mama Bear (voice)
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1964
The Bing Crosby Show
TV show
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1961
The Mike Douglas Show
TV show Self - Co-Host
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1961
Ben Casey
TV show
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1959
1001 Arabian Nights
Movie Princess Yasminda (voice)
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1959
The Big Circus
Movie Jeannie Whirling
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1959
Anatomy of a Murder
Movie Mary Pilant
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1959
A Princess for Magoo
Movie
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1958
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Movie Princess Parisa
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1958
Gunman's Walk
Movie Cecily "Clee" Chouard
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1957
The Brothers Rico
Movie Norah Malaks Rico
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1957
Operation Mad Ball
Movie Lt. Betty Bixby
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1957
The Night the World Exploded
Movie Laura 'Hutch' Hutchinson
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1957
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
Movie Anne Martin
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1957
Mister Cory
Movie Jen Vollard
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1956
The Wild Party
Movie Honey
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1956
Reprisal!
Movie Taini
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1956
Storm Center
Movie Hazel Levering
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1955
Unchained
Movie Sally Haskins
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1955
The Phenix City Story
Movie Ellie Rhodes
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1955
5 Against the House
Movie Jean, Young Woman in Nightclub (uncredited)
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1955
Cell 2455 Death Row
Movie Jo-Anne
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1955
Tight Spot
Movie Girl Honeymooner (uncredited)
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1954
Father Knows Best
TV show Maxine
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1954
Living It Up
Movie Manicurist (uncredited)
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1954
Rear Window
Movie Girl at Songwriter's Party (uncredited)
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1954
Casanova's Big Night
Movie Girl on Bridge (uncredited)
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1953
So This Is Love
Movie Showgirl (uncredited)
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1950
What's My Line?
TV show Self - Mystery Guest
