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Kathryn Grant

Kathryn Grant

Birthday: 1933-11-25 | Place of Birth: Houston, Texas, USA

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2010
Queen of the Lot

as    Elizabeth Lambert

1978
The Initiation of Sarah

as    Mrs. Goodwin

1959
The Big Circus

as    Jeannie Whirling

1959
Anatomy of a Murder

as    Mary Pilant

1958
Gunman's Walk

as    Cecily "Clee" Chouard

1958
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

as    Princess Parisa

1957
The Guns of Fort Petticoat

as    Anne Martin

1957
The Night the World Exploded

as    Laura 'Hutch' Hutchinson

1957
Operation Mad Ball

as    Lt. Betty Bixby

1957
The Brothers Rico

as    Norah Malaks Rico

1956
The Wild Party

as    Honey

1955
The Phenix City Story

as    Ellie Rhodes

1955
5 Against the House

as    Jean, Young Woman in Nightclub (uncredited)