Kathryn Grant
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 25, 1933
- Died
- September 20, 2024 (aged 90)
- Birthplace
- West 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.
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Filmography
Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
Movie · as Self
Queen of the Lot
Movie · as Elizabeth Lambert
Bing Crosby: The Television Specials Volume 2 – The Christmas Specials
Movie · as Self
The Tony Danza Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
A Bing Crosby Christmas
Movie · as Self / Narrator
The Magic of Bing Crosby
Movie · as Self
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Movie · as actress 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Initiation of Sarah
Movie · as Mrs. Goodwin
Bing Crosby: The Christmas Years
Movie · as Herself
Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas
Movie · as Self
Bing Crosby's Sun Valley Christmas Show
Movie
Goldilocks
Movie · as Self / Mama Bear (voice)
The Bing Crosby Show
TV · 1 ep
Ben Casey
TV · 1 ep
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self - Co-Host · 1 ep
Anatomy of a Murder
Movie · as Mary Pilant
1001 Arabian Nights
Movie · as Princess Yasminda (voice)
The Big Circus
Movie · as Jeannie Whirling
A Princess for Magoo
Movie
Gunman's Walk
Movie · as Cecily "Clee" Chouard
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Movie · as Princess Parisa
The Brothers Rico
Movie · as Norah Malaks Rico
Operation Mad Ball
Movie · as Lt. Betty Bixby
The Night the World Exploded
Movie · as Laura 'Hutch' Hutchinson
Mister Cory
Movie · as Jen Vollard
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
Movie · as Anne Martin
Storm Center
Movie · as Hazel Levering
The Wild Party
Movie · as Honey
Reprisal!
Movie · as Taini
Cell 2455 Death Row
Movie · as Jo-Anne
The Phenix City Story
Movie · as Ellie Rhodes
5 Against the House
Movie · as Jean, Young Woman in Nightclub (uncredited)
Tight Spot
Movie · as Girl Honeymooner (uncredited)
Unchained
Movie · as Sally Haskins
Rear Window
Movie · as Girl at Songwriter's Party (uncredited)
Casanova's Big Night
Movie · as Girl on Bridge (uncredited)
Living It Up
Movie · as Manicurist (uncredited)
Father Knows Best
TV · as Maxine · 1 ep
So This Is Love
Movie · as Showgirl (uncredited)
What's My Line?
TV · as Self - Mystery Guest · 1 ep