She appeared in motion pictures like “The 7th Voyage of Sinbad,” “Anatomy of a Murder” and others.
Kathryn Crosby speaks throughout the American Masters “Bing Crosby Rediscovered” panel throughout the PBS Networks part of the 2014 Summer Television Critics Association at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on July 23, 2014. Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images
Kathryn Crosby, who appeared in such films as The 7th Voyage of Sinbad Anatomy of a Murderand Operation Mad Ball before weding famous vocalist and Oscar-winning star Bing Crosby, has actually passed away. She was 90.
She passed away of natural causes Friday (Sept. 20) night at her home in the Northern California city of Hillsborough, a household representative stated Saturday.
Appearing under her phase name of Kathryn Grant, she appeared opposite Tony Curtis in Mister Cory in 1957 and Victor Mature in The Big Circus in 1959. She made 5 motion pictures with movie noir director Phil Karlson, consisting of Difficult situation and The Phenix City Storyboth in 1955.
Her other leading males consisted of Jack Lemmon in Operation Mad BallJames Darren in The Brothers Ricoand James Stewart in Anatomy of a Murderdirected by Otto Preminger.
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Born Olive Kathryn Grandstaff on Nov. 25, 1933, in West Columbia, Texas, she finished from the University of Texas with a degree in arts. She pertained to Hollywood and started her motion picture profession in 1953.
She fulfilled Bing Crosby while doing interviews for a column she blogged about Hollywood for her home town paper. They were wed in 1957, when she was 23 and he was 54.
She cut her acting profession after the wedding event, although she appeared frequently with Crosby and their 3 kids on his Christmas tv specials and in Minute Maid orange juice commercials. She ended up being a signed up nurse in 1963.
In the 1970s, she hosted an early morning talk program on KPIX-TV in Northern California.
After Crosby’s death at age 74 in 1977, from a cardiac arrest after playing golf in Spain, she appeared in phase productions of Very Same Time, Next Year and Charley’s AuntShe co-starred with John Davidson and Andrea McArdle in the 1996 Broadway revival of State Fair
For 16 years ending in 2001, she hosted the Crosby National golf competition in Bermuda Run, North Carolina.
She is endured by kids Harry, Mary, a star best understood for the television program Dallasand Nathaniel, an effective amateur golf enthusiast. She was wed to Maurice Sullivan for 10 years before he was eliminated in a 2010 cars and truck mishap that seriously hurt Crosby.
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