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Kathryn Grant

Born
November 25, 1933
Kathryn Crosby (born November 25, 1933) is 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. Since Bing Crosby's death in 1977, she has taken 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
Rear Window
(1954)
Girl at Songwriter's Party (uncredited)
Anatomy of a Murder
(1959)
Mary Pilant
Tight Spot
(1955)
Girl Honeymooner (uncredited)
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
(1958)
Princess Parisa
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
(1991)
actress 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mister Cory
(1957)
Jen Vollard
Reprisal!
(1956)
Taini
Full Filmography
Acting
So This Is Love
(1953)
Showgirl (uncredited)
Living It Up
(1954)
Manicurist (uncredited)
Rear Window
(1954)
Girl at Songwriter's Party (uncredited)
Casanova's Big Night
(1954)
Girl on Bridge (uncredited)
Tight Spot
(1955)
Girl Honeymooner (uncredited)
Cell 2455 Death Row
(1955)
Jo-Anne
The Phenix City Story
(1955)
Ellie Rhodes
5 Against the House
(1955)
Jean, Young Woman in Nightclub (uncredited)
Reprisal!
(1956)
Taini
Storm Center
(1956)
Hazel Levering
The Wild Party
(1956)
Honey
The Night the World Exploded
(1957)
Laura 'Hutch' Hutchinson
Operation Mad Ball
(1957)
Lt. Betty Bixby
Mister Cory
(1957)
Jen Vollard
The Brothers Rico
(1957)
Norah Malaks Rico
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
(1957)
Anne Martin
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
(1958)
Princess Parisa
Gunman's Walk
(1958)
Cecily "Clee" Chouard
1001 Arabian Nights
(1959)
Princess Yasminda (voice)
The Big Circus
(1959)
Jeannie Whirling
Anatomy of a Murder
(1959)
Mary Pilant
Goldilocks
(1970)
Self / Mama Bear (voice)
Bing Crosby's Sun Valley Christmas Show
(1973)
Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas
(1977)
Self
Bing Crosby: The Christmas Years
(1978)
Herself
The Initiation of Sarah
(1978)
Mrs. Goodwin
The Magic of Bing Crosby
(1991)
Self
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
(1991)
actress 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Bing Crosby Christmas
(1998)
Self / Narrator
Bing Crosby: The Television Specials Volume 2 – The Christmas Specials
(2010)
Self
Queen of the Lot
(2010)
Elizabeth Lambert
Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
(2014)
Self
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