Kathryn Grant
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.
Rear Window
as Girl at Songwriter's Party (uncredited)A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes...
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The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
as Princess ParisaWhen a princess is shrunken by an evil wizard, Sinbad must undertake a quest to an island of...
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Anatomy of a Murder
as Mary PilantSemi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a...
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as actress 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited)This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie...
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The Initiation of Sarah
as Mrs. GoodwinShy misfit Sarah Goodwin has a secret gift: the ability to control — and destroy — with her...
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Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
as SelfBing Crosby was, without a doubt, the most popular and influential multi-media star of the first...
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The Brothers Rico
as Norah Malaks RicoEddie Rico, the erstwhile bookkeeper for a big Mafia boss, is now making a living as an honest...
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Tight Spot
as Girl Honeymooner (uncredited)A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious...
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Reprisal!
as TainiNew ranch owner Frank Madden, half Indian but posing as white, arrives just as an all white jury...
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The Night the World Exploded
as Laura 'Hutch' HutchinsonWith his assistant, Laura Hutchinson, Dr. David Conway develops a device to advance the...
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The Phenix City Story
as Ellie RhodesA crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run...
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Gunman's Walk
as Cecily "Clee" ChouardA powerful rancher always protects his wild adult son by paying for damages and bribing...
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The Guns of Fort Petticoat
as Anne MartinOpposing his commanding officer's decision to attack a group of innocent Indians and wipe them...
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Living It Up
as Manicurist (uncredited)Homer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day...
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Operation Mad Ball
as Lt. Betty BixbyIn this wacky military spoof, Lemmon plays a terminally bored Army private waging a war of wits...
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5 Against the House
as Jean, Young Woman in Nightclub (uncredited)Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
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Cell 2455 Death Row
as Jo-AnneA Death Row inmate uses his prison law studies to fight for his life. Based on a true story.
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Storm Center
as Hazel LeveringPoliticians go after a small-town librarian when she refuses to ban a book. She's quickly...
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1001 Arabian Nights
as Princess Yasminda (voice)In this animated retelling of the classic tale, Abdul Aziz Magoo -- an ancestor of Mr. Magoo --...
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Casanova's Big Night
as Girl on Bridge (uncredited)Italy 1757, Pippo Popolino, a lowly tailor, disguises himself as the great Casanova in order to...
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The Big Circus
as Jeannie WhirlingA circus owner tries to keep his financially troubled circus on the road, despite the efforts of...
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So This Is Love
as Showgirl (uncredited)Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.
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Queen of the Lot
as Elizabeth LambertAn electronic ankle bracelet and being under house arrest aren't about to stop up-and-coming...
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Bing Crosby: The Television Specials Volume 2 – The Christmas Specials
as SelfBing Crosby and Christmas - they're inseparable. It was only natural for the voice that sold...
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Mister Cory
as Jen VollardAn opportunistic young man from the slums gambles his way to wealth, power and high society.
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A Bing Crosby Christmas
as Self / NarratorThe program on this DVD is basically a retrospective produced in the early 1990s for public...
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The Magic of Bing Crosby
as SelfRosemary Clooney, Michael Feistein, and wife Kathryn Crosby celebrate the voice and singing...
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Bing Crosby's Sun Valley Christmas Show
as uncreditedBing's 1973 primetime Christmas special from NBC, with his family and guest stars.
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The Wild Party
as HoneyAn ex-football brute (Anthony Quinn) and his beatnik gang take a rich girl (Carol Ohmart) and...
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Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas
as SelfBing Crosby and his family spend Christmas at the estate of a distant relative in England.
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Bing Crosby: The Christmas Years
as HerselfThe Christmas after Bing Crosby's passing, his family gets together to recall all the good times...
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The Mike Douglas Show
as Self - Co-HostThe Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that...
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The Mike Douglas Show
as SelfThe Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that...
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What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery GuestFour panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while...
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Ben Casey
as uncreditedBen Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was...
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Father Knows Best
as MaxineFamily man Jim Anderson copes with the everyday problems among his wife Margaret and their three...
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The Bing Crosby Show
as uncreditedThe Bing Crosby Show is a 28-episode situation comedy television program starring crooner, film...
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