Kathryn Grant
Date of birth: 1933-11-25
Place of birth: West Columbia, Texas, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Olive Kathryn Grandstaff, Kathryn Grant Crosby, Kathryn Grant-Crosby, Kathryn Crosby, Kathryn Grandstaff
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.
Movie Credits
Anatomy of a Murder
1959-07-01
Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local in
Rear Window
1954-08-01
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinc
The Initiation of Sarah
1978-02-06
Shy misfit Sarah Goodwin has a secret gift: the ability to control — and destroy — with her mind. Wh
Cell 2455 Death Row
1955-04-19
A Death Row inmate uses his prison law studies to fight for his life. Based on a true story.
Bing Crosby's Sun Valley Christmas Show
1973-12-09
Bing's 1973 primetime Christmas special from NBC, with his family and guest stars.
The Brothers Rico
1957-08-23
Eddie Rico, the erstwhile bookkeeper for a big Mafia boss, is now making a living as an honest merch
The Phenix City Story
1955-07-19
A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambl
Gunman's Walk
1958-07-15
A powerful rancher always protects his wild adult son by paying for damages and bribing witnesses, u
Operation Mad Ball
1957-08-17
In this wacky military spoof, Lemmon plays a terminally bored Army private waging a war of wits as h
The Night the World Exploded
1957-06-14
With his assistant, Laura Hutchinson, Dr. David Conway develops a device to advance the fledgling sc
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
1958-12-05
When a princess is shrunken by an evil wizard, Sinbad must undertake a quest to an island of monster
1001 Arabian Nights
1959-12-01
In this animated retelling of the classic tale, Abdul Aziz Magoo -- an ancestor of Mr. Magoo -- is t
5 Against the House
1955-06-10
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
Storm Center
1956-07-31
Politicians go after a small-town librarian when she refuses to ban a book. She's quickly labeled a
Queen of the Lot
2010-11-19
An electronic ankle bracelet and being under house arrest aren't about to stop up-and-coming actress
Goldilocks
1970-03-31
The Wild Party
1956-12-21
An ex-football brute (Anthony Quinn) and his beatnik gang take a rich girl (Carol Ohmart) and her bo
Mister Cory
1957-02-23
An opportunistic young man from the slums gambles his way to wealth, power and high society.
The Big Circus
1959-07-05
A circus owner tries to keep his financially troubled circus on the road, despite the efforts of a m
Casanova's Big Night
1954-04-07
Italy 1757, Pippo Popolino, a lowly tailor, disguises himself as the great Casanova in order to roma
Reprisal!
1956-11-02
New ranch owner Frank Madden, half Indian but posing as white, arrives just as an all white jury fin
Tight Spot
1955-03-19
A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangste
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
1957-04-01
Opposing his commanding officer's decision to attack a group of innocent Indians and wipe them out,
A Bing Crosby Christmas
1998-01-01
The program on this DVD is basically a retrospective produced in the early 1990s for public televisi
A Princess for Magoo
1959-01-01
Jim Backus (the voice of Mister Magoo) narrates a look behind the scenes at UPA Pictures during the
Bing Crosby: The Television Specials Volume 2 – The Christmas Specials
2010-11-09
Bing Crosby and Christmas - they're inseparable. It was only natural for the voice that sold more th
The Magic of Bing Crosby
1991-10-29
Rosemary Clooney, Michael Feistein, and wife Kathryn Crosby celebrate the voice and singing style of
Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
2014-12-02
Bing Crosby was, without a doubt, the most popular and influential multi-media star of the first hal
So This Is Love
1953-07-15
Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.
Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas
1977-11-30
Bing Crosby and his family spend Christmas at the estate of a distant relative in England.
Living It Up
1954-08-04
Homer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day he fi
Bing Crosby: The Christmas Years
1978-12-06
The Christmas after Bing Crosby's passing, his family gets together to recall all the good times the
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991-10-28
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director O
Unchained
1955-08-25
This fact-based prison drama tells the tale of a band of prisoners living in the innovative 2,600-ac