
Kathryn Grant
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1933-11-25
Day of Death
2024-09-20 (90 years old)
Place of Birth
West Columbia, Texas, USA
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
Acting
(2014)
Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
as Self
(2010)
Queen of the Lot
as Elizabeth Lambert
(2010)
(1998)
A Bing Crosby Christmas
as Self / Narrator
(1991)
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as actress 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1991)
The Magic of Bing Crosby
as Self
(1978)
The Initiation of Sarah
as Mrs. Goodwin
(1978)
Bing Crosby: The Christmas Years
as Herself
(1977)
(1973)
(1970)
Goldilocks
as Self / Mama Bear (voice)
(1959)
Anatomy of a Murder
as Mary Pilant
(1959)
1001 Arabian Nights
as Princess Yasminda (voice)
(1959)
The Big Circus
as Jeannie Whirling
(1959)
(1958)
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
as Princess Parisa
(1958)
Gunman's Walk
as Cecily "Clee" Chouard
(1957)
Operation Mad Ball
as Lt. Betty Bixby
(1957)
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
as Anne Martin
(1957)
The Brothers Rico
as Norah Malaks Rico
(1957)
Mister Cory
as Jen Vollard
(1957)
The Night the World Exploded
as Laura 'Hutch' Hutchinson
(1956)
Storm Center
as Hazel Levering
(1956)
Reprisal!
as Taini
(1956)
The Wild Party
as Honey
(1955)
Tight Spot
as Girl Honeymooner (uncredited)
(1955)
5 Against the House
as Jean, Young Woman in Nightclub (uncredited)
(1955)
The Phenix City Story
as Ellie Rhodes
(1955)
Unchained
as Sally Haskins
(1955)
Cell 2455 Death Row
as Jo-Anne
(1954)
Rear Window
as Girl at Songwriter's Party (uncredited)
(1954)
Casanova's Big Night
as Girl on Bridge (uncredited)
(1954)
Living It Up
as Manicurist (uncredited)
(1953)
So This Is Love
as Showgirl (uncredited)