Kathryn Grant
Age: 90 | From: Houston, Texas, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1933-11-25 21:01:06
Aliases: Olive Kathryn Grandstaff , Kathryn Grant Crosby , Kathryn Grant-Crosby , Kathryn Crosby
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Houston, Texas, USA
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Movie Involvements: 24
TV Involvements: 1
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
What's My Line?
(1950) Self - Mystery Guest
Rear Window
(1954) Girl at Songwriter's Party (uncredited)
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
(1958) Princess Parisa
Anatomy of a Murder
(1959) Mary Pilant
Tight Spot
(1955) Girl Honeymooner (uncredited)
Gunman's Walk
(1958) Cecily "Clee" Chouard
Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
(2014) Self
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
(1957) Anne MartinActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Self | |
| 2010 | Elizabeth Lambert | |
| Self | ||
| 2004 | Self | |
| 1998 | Self / Narrator | |
| 1991 | Self | |
| actress 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited) | ||
| 1978 | Herself | |
| Mrs. Goodwin | ||
| 1977 | Self | |
| 1973 | N/A | |
| 1970 | Self / Mama Bear (voice) | |
| 1964 | N/A | |
| 1961 | Self - Co-Host | |
| N/A | ||
| 1959 | Princess Yasminda (voice) | |
| Jeannie Whirling | ||
| Mary Pilant | ||
| 1958 | Princess Parisa | |
| Cecily "Clee" Chouard | ||
| 1957 | Norah Malaks Rico | |
| Lt. Betty Bixby | ||
| Laura 'Hutch' Hutchinson | ||
| Anne Martin | ||
| Jen Vollard | ||
| 1956 | Honey | |
| Taini | ||
| Hazel Levering | ||
| 1955 | Ellie Rhodes | |
| Jean, Young Woman in Nightclub (uncredited) | ||
| Jo-Anne | ||
| Girl Honeymooner (uncredited) | ||
| 1954 | Girl at Songwriter's Party (uncredited) | |
| Manicurist (uncredited) | ||
| Girl on Bridge (uncredited) | ||
| 1953 | Showgirl (uncredited) | |
| 1950 | Self - Mystery Guest | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
