Kathryn Grant
Born
November 25, 1933
Died
September 20, 2024 (90 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
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.
Known For
Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
Self
2014
Queen of the Lot
Elizabeth Lambert
2010
Bing Crosby: The Television Specials Volume 2 – The Christmas Specials
Self
2010
The Tony Danza Show
Self · (1 episode)
2004
A Bing Crosby Christmas
Self / Narrator
1998
The Magic of Bing Crosby
Self
1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
actress 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1991
Bing Crosby: The Christmas Years
Herself
1978
The Initiation of Sarah
Mrs. Goodwin
1978
Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas
Self
1977
Bing Crosby's Sun Valley Christmas Show
1973
Goldilocks
Self / Mama Bear (voice)
1970
The Bing Crosby Show
(1 episode)
1964
The Mike Douglas Show
Self - Co-Host · (1 episode)
1961
The Mike Douglas Show
Self · (1 episode)
1961
Ben Casey
(1 episode)
1961
1001 Arabian Nights
Princess Yasminda (voice)
1959
The Big Circus
Jeannie Whirling
1959
Anatomy of a Murder
Mary Pilant
1959
A Princess for Magoo
1959
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Princess Parisa
1958
Gunman's Walk
Cecily "Clee" Chouard
1958
The Brothers Rico
Norah Malaks Rico
1957
Operation Mad Ball
Lt. Betty Bixby
1957
The Night the World Exploded
Laura 'Hutch' Hutchinson
1957
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
Anne Martin
1957
Mister Cory
Jen Vollard
1957
The Wild Party
Honey
1956
Reprisal!
Taini
1956
Storm Center
Hazel Levering
1956
Unchained
Sally Haskins
1955
The Phenix City Story
Ellie Rhodes
1955
5 Against the House
Jean, Young Woman in Nightclub (uncredited)
1955
Cell 2455 Death Row
Jo-Anne
1955
Tight Spot
Girl Honeymooner (uncredited)
1955
Father Knows Best
Maxine · (1 episode)
1954
Living It Up
Manicurist (uncredited)
1954
Rear Window
Girl at Songwriter's Party (uncredited)
1954
Casanova's Big Night
Girl on Bridge (uncredited)
1954
So This Is Love
Showgirl (uncredited)
1953
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest · (1 episode)
1950