Kathryn Grant

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.

Known For

The Mike Douglas Show

The Mike Douglas Show

What's My Line?

Father Knows Best

Ben Casey

Rear Window

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

Anatomy of a Murder

All Movies (34)

• Bing Crosby: Rediscovered2014 · as Self
• Queen of the Lot2010 · as Elizabeth Lambert
• Bing Crosby: The Television Specials Volume 2 – The Christmas Specials2010 · as Self
• A Bing Crosby Christmas1998 · as Self / Narrator
• The Magic of Bing Crosby1991 · as Self
• Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker1991 · as actress 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Bing Crosby: The Christmas Years1978 · as Herself
• The Initiation of Sarah1978 · as Mrs. Goodwin
• Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas1977 · as Self
• Bing Crosby's Sun Valley Christmas Show1973
• Goldilocks1970 · as Self / Mama Bear (voice)
• 1001 Arabian Nights1959 · as Princess Yasminda (voice)
• The Big Circus1959 · as Jeannie Whirling
• Anatomy of a Murder1959 · as Mary Pilant
• A Princess for Magoo1959
• The 7th Voyage of Sinbad1958 · as Princess Parisa
• Gunman's Walk1958 · as Cecily "Clee" Chouard
• The Brothers Rico1957 · as Norah Malaks Rico
• Operation Mad Ball1957 · as Lt. Betty Bixby
• The Night the World Exploded1957 · as Laura 'Hutch' Hutchinson
• The Guns of Fort Petticoat1957 · as Anne Martin
• Mister Cory1957 · as Jen Vollard
• The Wild Party1956 · as Honey
• Reprisal!1956 · as Taini
• Storm Center1956 · as Hazel Levering
• Unchained1955 · as Sally Haskins
• The Phenix City Story1955 · as Ellie Rhodes
• 5 Against the House1955 · as Jean, Young Woman in Nightclub (uncredited)
• Cell 2455 Death Row1955 · as Jo-Anne
• Tight Spot1955 · as Girl Honeymooner (uncredited)
• Living It Up1954 · as Manicurist (uncredited)
• Rear Window1954 · as Girl at Songwriter's Party (uncredited)
• Casanova's Big Night1954 · as Girl on Bridge (uncredited)
• So This Is Love1953 · as Showgirl (uncredited)

All TV Shows (7)

• The Tony Danza Show2004 · as Self
• The Bing Crosby Show1964
• The Mike Douglas Show1961 · as Self - Co-Host
• The Mike Douglas Show1961 · as Self
• Ben Casey1961
• Father Knows Best1954 · as Maxine
• What's My Line?1950 · as Self - Mystery Guest