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 Crosbys second wife. The couple had three children, Harry, Mary Frances, and Nathaniel. She appeared as a guest star on her husbands 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 Crosbys 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.

All movies available from Kathryn Grant

Poster movie Anatomy of a Murder

Anatomy of a Murder

Movie
Poster movie The Initiation of Sarah

The Initiation of Sarah

Movie
Poster movie Queen of the Lot

Queen of the Lot

Movie
Poster movie The Big Circus

The Big Circus

Movie
Poster movie Father Knows Best

Father Knows Best

Tv series

Movies unavailable from Kathryn Grant

Rear Window

Girl at Songwriter's Party (uncredited)

Movie 1954

Cell 2455 Death Row

Jo-Anne

Movie 1955

Bing Crosby's Sun Valley Christmas Show

Movie 1973

The Brothers Rico

Norah Malaks Rico

Movie 1957

The Phenix City Story

Ellie Rhodes

Movie 1955

Gunman's Walk

Cecily "Clee" Chouard

Movie 1958

Operation Mad Ball

Lt. Betty Bixby

Movie 1957

The Night the World Exploded

Laura 'Hutch' Hutchinson

Movie 1957

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

Princess Parisa

Movie 1958

1001 Arabian Nights

Princess Yasminda (voice)

Movie 1959

5 Against the House

Jean, Young Woman in Nightclub (uncredited)

Movie 1955

Storm Center

Hazel Levering

Movie 1956

Goldilocks

Self / Mama Bear (voice)

Movie 1970

The Wild Party

Honey

Movie 1956

Mister Cory

Jen Vollard

Movie 1957

Casanova's Big Night

Girl on Bridge (uncredited)

Movie 1954

Reprisal!

Taini

Movie 1956

Tight Spot

Girl Honeymooner (uncredited)

Movie 1955

The Guns of Fort Petticoat

Anne Martin

Movie 1957

A Bing Crosby Christmas

Self / Narrator

Movie 1998

A Princess for Magoo

Movie 1959

Bing Crosby: The Television Specials Volume 2 – The Christmas Specials

Self

Movie 2010

The Magic of Bing Crosby

Self

Movie 1991

Bing Crosby: Rediscovered

Self

Movie 2014

So This Is Love

Showgirl (uncredited)

Movie 1953

Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas

Self

Movie 1977

Living It Up

Manicurist (uncredited)

Movie 1954

Bing Crosby: The Christmas Years

Herself

Movie 1978

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

actress 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Movie 1991

Unchained

Sally Haskins

Movie 1955

Tv series unavailable from Kathryn Grant

The Tony Danza Show

Self

Tv 2004

Ben Casey

Tv 1961

The Bing Crosby Show

Tv 1964

The Mike Douglas Show

Self - Co-Host

Tv 1961

What's My Line?

Self - Mystery Guest

Tv 1950

The Mike Douglas Show

Self

Tv 1961