Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
2014 · Movie
as Self
Kathryn Grant
1933-11-25
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West Columbia, Texas, USA
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.
Filmography
Queen of the Lot
2010 · Movie
as Elizabeth Lambert
Bing Crosby: The Television Specials Volume 2 – The Christmas Specials
2010 · Movie
as Self
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The Tony Danza Show
2004 · TV Show
as Self
A Bing Crosby Christmas
1998 · Movie
as Self / Narrator
The Magic of Bing Crosby
1991 · Movie
as Self
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991 · Movie
as actress 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Initiation of Sarah
1978 · Movie
as Mrs. Goodwin
Bing Crosby: The Christmas Years
1978 · Movie
as Herself
Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas
1977 · Movie
as Self
Bing Crosby's Sun Valley Christmas Show
1973 · Movie
Goldilocks
1970 · Movie
as Self / Mama Bear (voice)
The Bing Crosby Show
1964 · TV Show
Ben Casey
1961 · TV Show
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · TV Show
as Self - Co-Host, Self
Anatomy of a Murder
1959 · Movie
as Mary Pilant
1001 Arabian Nights
1959 · Movie
as Princess Yasminda (voice)
The Big Circus
1959 · Movie
as Jeannie Whirling
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A Princess for Magoo
1959 · Movie
Gunman's Walk
1958 · Movie
as Cecily "Clee" Chouard
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
1958 · Movie
as Princess Parisa
The Brothers Rico
1957 · Movie
as Norah Malaks Rico
Operation Mad Ball
1957 · Movie
as Lt. Betty Bixby
The Night the World Exploded
1957 · Movie
as Laura 'Hutch' Hutchinson
Mister Cory
1957 · Movie
as Jen Vollard
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
1957 · Movie
as Anne Martin
Storm Center
1956 · Movie
as Hazel Levering
The Wild Party
1956 · Movie
as Honey
Reprisal!
1956 · Movie
as Taini
Cell 2455 Death Row
1955 · Movie
as Jo-Anne
The Phenix City Story
1955 · Movie
as Ellie Rhodes
5 Against the House
1955 · Movie
as Jean, Young Woman in Nightclub (uncredited)
Tight Spot
1955 · Movie
as Girl Honeymooner (uncredited)
Unchained
1955 · Movie
as Sally Haskins
Rear Window
1954 · Movie
as Girl at Songwriter's Party (uncredited)
Casanova's Big Night
1954 · Movie
as Girl on Bridge (uncredited)
Living It Up
1954 · Movie
as Manicurist (uncredited)
Father Knows Best
1954 · TV Show
as Maxine
So This Is Love
1953 · Movie
as Showgirl (uncredited)
What's My Line?
1950 · TV Show
as Self - Mystery Guest
