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