Kathryn crosby biography personal life
•
Kathryn Crosby Dies: ‘The 7th Voyage of Sinbad’ Actress & Bing Crosby’s Wife Was 90
Kathryn Grant Crosby, the actress known for The 7th Voyage of Sinbad and Anatomy of a Murder, has died. She was 90.
The widow of Bing Crosby died of natural causes on Friday night at her Hillsborough, California home, according to a spokesperson for the Crosby family.
Born Olive Kathryn Grandstaff on Nov. 25, 1933 in West Columbia, Texas, she graduated from University of Texas at Austin before winning a beauty contest with the prize being a screen test in Hollywood with William Holden.
Beginning her onscreen career as Kathryn Grant in 1953, she appeared in such films as So This Is Love (1953), Rear Window (1954) and The Wild Party (1956).
While penning a column about Hollywood for her hometown newspaper, Kathryn met Bing during an interview on the set of his beloved 1954 holiday classic White Christmas. They wed in 1957, and she went on to become a r
•
Bing Crosby was, arguably, one of the two or three most widely celebrated and most intensely beloved Irish-Americans of the 20th century, and Kathryn Crosby has played a generous, but not obsessive role in keeping his memory alive.
She has not become, in other words, the keeper of the flame in the way far too many widows of famous men have done when their husbands have died. She has had, from the start, her own distinct identity, and she still has.
Born Olive Kathryn Grandstaff on Nov. 25, 1933, she became Kathryn Grant, though was sometimes billed as Kathy Grant, and had a minor movie career starting in 1953 with something called “Arrowhead,” and more or less ending in 1959 with “The Big Circus,” hardly memorable items.
It comes as something of a surprise, then, to learn that two of the films in which she appears, however briefly, are Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” in 1954 and Otto Preminger’s “Anatomy of a Murder”
•
Live Wire: Late singer Bing Crosby's family life complicated
Q: I know that Kathryn Grant married Bing okänt and had three children. When he died he made her a ward of the court, and she was very angry about it and fought it in court. Did she ever overturn that and get any of his money? I'm very curious about this. - N.F., Hope Mills
A: Much of this is incorrect. You may be blandning up some elements of the complicated Crosby family story - or maybe you're thinking of someone else entirely?
It's true that Kathryn Grant married Bing Crosby, in 1957, and they had three children.
But if she was unhappy with her financial situation after the 1977 death of the wealthy underhållare, she didn't say so and she never battled the estate in court - at least, not that was widely reported. Neither a minor nor incapacitated, she also wasn't made a ward of the court.
Indeed, Kathryn okänt, now 79, always has painted rosy pictures of her life with Bing, including in two memoirs written followi