Kathryn Crosby

Kathryn Crosby
Bing and Kathryn on his 1976 Christmas special.
Born	Olive Kathryn Grandstaff (1933-11-25) November 25, 1933 (age 83) Houston, Texas, U.S.
Other names	Kathryn Grandstaff Kathryn Grant Kathryn Crosby
Years active	1953–2009
Spouse(s)	Bing Crosby (1957–1977; his death) Maurice William Sullivan (2000–2010; his death)
Children	Harry Crosby Nathaniel Crosby Mary Crosby

Kathryn Crosby (born November 25, 1933) is an American former actress and singer who performed in films under the stage-names Kathryn Grant and Kathryn Grandstaff.

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, being more than thirty years his junior. 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 (1959). She also played the part of "Mama Bear" alongside her husband and children in Goldilocks and co-starred with Jack Lemmon in the comedy Operation Mad Ball (1957), with Tony Curtis in the drama Mister Cory (1957) and as a trapeze artist in The Big Circus (1959).

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.

Since Bing Crosby's death in 1977, she has taken on a few smaller roles and the lead in the short-lived 1996 Broadway musical State Fair.