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.
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Movies (34)
Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
as Self
2014
Queen of the Lot
as Elizabeth Lambert
2010
Bing Crosby: The Television Specials Volume 2 – The Christmas Specials
as Self
2010
A Bing Crosby Christmas
as Self / Narrator
1998
The Magic of Bing Crosby
as Self
1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as actress 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1991
Bing Crosby: The Christmas Years
as Herself
1978
The Initiation of Sarah
as Mrs. Goodwin
1978
Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas
as Self
1977
Bing Crosby's Sun Valley Christmas Show
1973
Goldilocks
as Self / Mama Bear (voice)
1970
1001 Arabian Nights
as Princess Yasminda (voice)
1959
The Big Circus
as Jeannie Whirling
1959
Anatomy of a Murder
as Mary Pilant
1959
A Princess for Magoo
1959
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
as Princess Parisa
1958
Gunman's Walk
as Cecily "Clee" Chouard
1958
The Brothers Rico
as Norah Malaks Rico
1957
Operation Mad Ball
as Lt. Betty Bixby
1957
The Night the World Exploded
as Laura 'Hutch' Hutchinson
1957
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
as Anne Martin
1957
Mister Cory
as Jen Vollard
1957
The Wild Party
as Honey
1956
Reprisal!
as Taini
1956
Storm Center
as Hazel Levering
1956
Unchained
as Sally Haskins
1955
The Phenix City Story
as Ellie Rhodes
1955
5 Against the House
as Jean, Young Woman in Nightclub (uncredited)
1955
Cell 2455 Death Row
as Jo-Anne
1955
Tight Spot
as Girl Honeymooner (uncredited)
1955
Rear Window
as Girl at Songwriter's Party (uncredited)
1954
Living It Up
as Manicurist (uncredited)
1954
Casanova's Big Night
as Girl on Bridge (uncredited)
1954
So This Is Love
as Showgirl (uncredited)
1953
