Kathryn Grant

Birthday: 1933-11-25
Deathday: 2024-09-20
Birthplace: West Columbia, Texas, USA
Gender: Female
Owned By: Unowned

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.

Credits

Year Title Character
2010-11-19 Queen of the Lot Elizabeth Lambert
1978-02-06 The Initiation of Sarah Mrs. Goodwin
1973-12-09 Bing Crosby's Sun Valley Christmas Show
1959-12-01 1001 Arabian Nights Princess Yasminda (voice)
1959-07-05 The Big Circus Jeannie Whirling
1959-07-01 Anatomy of a Murder Mary Pilant
1959-01-01 A Princess for Magoo
1958-12-05 The 7th Voyage of Sinbad Princess Parisa
1958-07-01 Gunman's Walk Cecily "Clee" Chouard
1957-09-01 The Brothers Rico Norah Malaks Rico
1957-08-17 Operation Mad Ball Lt. Betty Bixby
1957-06-14 The Night the World Exploded Laura 'Hutch' Hutchinson
1957-04-01 The Guns of Fort Petticoat Anne Martin
1957-02-23 Mister Cory Jen Vollard
1956-12-21 The Wild Party Honey
1956-11-02 Reprisal! Taini
1956-07-31 Storm Center Hazel Levering
1955-08-25 Unchained Sally Haskins
1955-07-19 The Phenix City Story Ellie Rhodes
1955-06-10 5 Against the House Jean, Young Woman in Nightclub (uncredited)
1955-04-19 Cell 2455 Death Row Jo-Anne
1955-03-19 Tight Spot Girl Honeymooner (uncredited)
1954-08-01 Rear Window Girl at Songwriter's Party (uncredited)
1954-07-15 Living It Up Manicurist (uncredited)
1954-04-07 Casanova's Big Night Girl on Bridge (uncredited)
1953-07-15 So This Is Love Showgirl (uncredited)