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Kathryn Grant
Born: 25th Nov 1933 West Columbia, Texas, USA - Died 20th Sep 2024
Dept: Acting
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.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 40
Film: 34 (85%)
Television: 6 (15%)
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Filmography
2014
Bing Crosby was, without a doubt, the most popular and influential multi-media star of the first half of the twentieth century, pulling audiences in w ... view
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Self
2010
An electronic ankle bracelet and being under house arrest aren't about to stop up-and-coming actress Maggie Chase (Tanna Frederick) from the two thing ... view
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Elizabeth Lambert
2010
Bing Crosby and Christmas - they're inseparable. It was only natural for the voice that sold more than 100 million copies of 'White Christmas' to even ... view
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Self
Sep 2004 (first aired)
The Tony Danza Show was a daytime variety talk show that premiered on September 13, 2004 in syndication and was distributed by Buena Vista Television. ... view
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Self (1 ep.)
1998
The program on this DVD is basically a retrospective produced in the early 1990s for public television that was originally called «A Bing Crosby Chri ... view
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Self / Narrator
1991
Rosemary Clooney, Michael Feistein, and wife Kathryn Crosby celebrate the voice and singing style of crooner Bing Crosby through clips from his theatr ... view
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Self
1991
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such me ... view
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actress 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1978
The Christmas after Bing Crosby's passing, his family gets together to recall all the good times they had. They talk about the people he worked with, ... view
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Herself
1978
Shy misfit Sarah Goodwin has a secret gift: the ability to control — and destroy — with her mind. When Sarah goes off to college with her more out ... view
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Mrs. Goodwin
1977
Bing Crosby and his family spend Christmas at the estate of a distant relative in England. ... view
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Self
1973
Bing's 1973 primetime Christmas special from NBC, with his family and guest stars. ... view
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Sep 1964 (first aired)
The Bing Crosby Show is a 28-episode situation comedy television program starring crooner, film star, iconic phenomenon, and businessman Bing Crosby a ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Dec 1961 (first aired)
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much ... view
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Self - Co-Host (1 ep.)
Self (2 ep.)
1959
In this animated retelling of the classic tale, Abdul Aziz Magoo -- an ancestor of Mr. Magoo -- is the lamp-selling uncle of Aladdin. Tired of his nep ... view
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Princess Yasminda (voice)
1959
A circus owner tries to keep his financially troubled circus on the road, despite the efforts of a murderous saboteur who has decided that the show mu ... view
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Jeannie Whirling
1959
Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. ... view
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Mary Pilant
1959
Jim Backus (the voice of Mister Magoo) narrates a look behind the scenes at UPA Pictures during the development of the feature-length animated film "1 ... view
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1958
When a princess is shrunken by an evil wizard, Sinbad must undertake a quest to an island of monsters to cure her and prevent a war. ... view
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Princess Parisa
1958
A powerful rancher always protects his wild adult son by paying for damages and bribing witnesses, until his crimes become too serious to rectify. ... view
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Cecily "Clee" Chouard
1957
Eddie Rico, the erstwhile bookkeeper for a big Mafia boss, is now making a living as an honest merchant in Florida with his family. Things go sour whe ... view
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Norah Malaks Rico
1957
In this wacky military spoof, Lemmon plays a terminally bored Army private waging a war of wits as he tries to throw a party under the nose of his obn ... view
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Lt. Betty Bixby
1957
With his assistant, Laura Hutchinson, Dr. David Conway develops a device to advance the fledgling science of earthquake prediction. After forecasting ... view
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Laura 'Hutch' Hutchinson
1957
Opposing his commanding officer's decision to attack a group of innocent Indians and wipe them out, Lt. Frank Hewitt leaves his post and heads home to ... view
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Anne Martin
1957
An opportunistic young man from the slums gambles his way to wealth, power and high society. ... view
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Jen Vollard
1956
An ex-football brute (Anthony Quinn) and his beatnik gang take a rich girl (Carol Ohmart) and her boyfriend hostage (Arthur Franz) at a jazz joint. ... view
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Honey
1956
New ranch owner Frank Madden, half Indian but posing as white, arrives just as an all white jury finds the three white Shipley brothers who lynched th ... view
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Taini
1956
Politicians go after a small-town librarian when she refuses to ban a book. She's quickly labeled a Communist. ... view
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Hazel Levering
1955
This fact-based prison drama tells the tale of a band of prisoners living in the innovative 2,600-acre prison at Chino, California. The place takes a ... view
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Sally Haskins
1955
A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town. ... view
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Ellie Rhodes
1955
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino. ... view
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Jean, Young Woman in Nightclub (uncredited)
1955
A Death Row inmate uses his prison law studies to fight for his life. Based on a true story. ... view
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Jo-Anne
1955
A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangster. She is put under protective watch by the Distri ... view
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Girl Honeymooner (uncredited)
Oct 1954 (first aired)
Family man Jim Anderson copes with the everyday problems among his wife Margaret and their three children as they experience day-to-day changes. ... view
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Maxine (1 ep.)
1954
Homer Flagg is a railroad worker in the small New Mexico town of Desert Hole. One day, he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic proving groun ... view
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Manicurist (uncredited)
1954
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder. ... view
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Girl at Songwriter's Party (uncredited)
1954
Italy 1757, Pippo Popolino, a lowly tailor, disguises himself as the great Casanova in order to romance the attractive widow Francesca. He little susp ... view
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Girl on Bridge (uncredited)
1953
Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953. ... view
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Showgirl (uncredited)
Feb 1950 (first aired)
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no ... view
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Self - Mystery Guest (1 ep.)