Kathryn Crosby Obituary News: American Actress and Singer, Wife of Bing Crosby Dies at 90 in Northern California City of Hillsborough
LOS ANGELES
-Before marrying well-known singer and Oscar-winning actor Bing Crosby, Kathryn Crosby starred in films including “The 7th Voyage of Sinbad,” “Anatomy of a Murder,” and “Operation Mad Ball.” Kathryn Crosby passed away. She was ninety years old.
A family representative confirmed on Saturday that she passed away on Friday night at her Hillsborough, California, home due to natural causes.
She made appearances as Kathryn Grant, her stage name, in 1957’s “Mister Cory,” with Tony Curtis, and in 1959’s “The Big Circus,” opposite Victor Mature. She collaborated with film noir filmmaker Phil Karlson on five films, two of which were released in 1955: “Tight Spot” and “The Phenix City Story.”
Her other main men were James Stewart in Otto Preminger’s “Anatomy of a Murder,” Jack Lemmon in “Operation Mad Ball,” and James Darren in “The Brothers Rico.”
Olive Kathryn Grandstaff was born in West Columbia, Texas, on November 25, 1933, and earned a fine arts degree from the University of Texas. In 1953, she moved to Hollywood and started her film career.
While doing interviews for a piece she wrote about Hollywood for her hometown newspaper, she met Bing Crosby. At the age of twenty-three and fifty-four, they tied the knot in 1957.
After being married, she decided to give up performing, but she continued to appear in Minute Maid orange juice ads and on Christmas television shows with Crosby and their three kids. 1963 saw her become a registered nurse.
She was the morning talk show host on Northern California’s KPIX-TV in the 1970s.
Following her heart attack while golfing in Spain in 1977, which claimed her life at the age of 74, Crosby made appearances in theatrical adaptations of “Same Time, Next Year” and “Charley’s Aunt.” She appeared in the Broadway revival of “State Fair” in 1996 alongside John Davidson and Andrea McArdle.
She served as the host of the Crosby National golf tournament at Bermuda Run, North Carolina, for 16 years, concluding in 2001.
Her children, Harry, Nathaniel, a successful amateur golfer, and Mary, an actor best known for the television series “Dallas,” survive her. Before Maurice Sullivan passed away in a 2010 auto accident that left Crosby gravely disabled, the two were married for ten years.