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.

Filmography

• 2010Queen of the Lot — Elizabeth Lambert
• 1991Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker — actress 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1978The Initiation of Sarah — Mrs. Goodwin
• 1973Bing Crosby's Sun Valley Christmas Show
• The Bing Crosby Show
• Ben Casey
• 19591001 Arabian Nights — Princess Yasminda (voice)
• 1959A Princess for Magoo
• 1959Anatomy of a Murder — Mary Pilant
• 1959The Big Circus — Jeannie Whirling
• 1958Gunman's Walk — Cecily "Clee" Chouard
• 1958The 7th Voyage of Sinbad — Princess Parisa
• 1957Mister Cory — Jen Vollard
• 1957Operation Mad Ball — Lt. Betty Bixby
• 1957The Brothers Rico — Norah Malaks Rico
• 1957The Guns of Fort Petticoat — Anne Martin
• 1957The Night the World Exploded — Laura 'Hutch' Hutchinson
• 1956Reprisal! — Taini
• 1956Storm Center — Hazel Levering
• 1956The Wild Party — Honey
• 19555 Against the House — Jean, Young Woman in Nightclub (uncredited)
• 1955Cell 2455 Death Row — Jo-Anne
• 1955The Phenix City Story — Ellie Rhodes
• 1955Tight Spot — Girl Honeymooner (uncredited)
• 1955Unchained — Sally Haskins
• 1954Casanova's Big Night — Girl on Bridge (uncredited)
• Father Knows Best — Maxine
• 1954Living It Up — Manicurist (uncredited)
• 1954Rear Window — Girl at Songwriter's Party (uncredited)
• 1953So This Is Love — Showgirl (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (10)

• 2014Bing Crosby: Rediscovered — Self
• 2010Bing Crosby: The Television Specials Volume 2 – The Christmas Specials — Self
• The Tony Danza Show — Self
• 1998A Bing Crosby Christmas — Self / Narrator
• 1991The Magic of Bing Crosby — Self
• 1978Bing Crosby: The Christmas Years — Herself
• 1977Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas — Self
• 1970Goldilocks — Self / Mama Bear (voice)
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self - Co-Host
• What's My Line? — Self - Mystery Guest