LOS ANGELES– Kathryn Crosby, that confirmed up in such movies as “The 7th Voyage of Sinbad”, “Anatomy of a Murder,” and “Operation Mad Ball” previous to weding well-known vocalist and Oscar- profitable star Bing Crosby, has truly handed away. She was 90.
She handed away of all-natural causes Friday night at her dwelling within the Northern California metropolis of Hillsborough, a family agent acknowledged Saturday.
Appearing below her title of Kathryn Grant, she confirmed up opposite Tony Curtis in “Mister Cory” in 1957 and Victor Mature in “The Big Circus” in 1959. She made 5 movies with film noir supervisor Phil Karlson, consisting of “Tight Spot” and “The Phenix City Story,” each in 1955.
Her numerous different main males consisted of Jack Lemmon in “Operation Mad Ball,” James Darren in “The Brothers Rico,” and James Stewart in “Anatomy of a Murder,” guided by Otto Preminger.
Born Olive Kathryn Grandstaff onNov 25, 1933, in West Columbia, Texas, she completed from the University of Texas with a degree in arts. She involved Hollywood and began her flick occupation in 1953.
She fulfilled Bing Crosby whereas doing conferences for a column she coated Hollywood for her dwelling city paper. They had been wed in 1957, when she was 23 and he was 54.
She stopped her performing occupation after the marriage occasion, though she confirmed up generally with Crosby and their 3 children on his Christmas television specials and in Minute Maid orange juice commercials. She got here to be a signed up nurse in 1963.
In the Nineteen Seventies, she organized an early morning discuss program on KPIX-TV in Northern California.
After Crosby’s fatality at age 74 in 1977, from a cardiac arrest after golf in Spain, she confirmed up in section manufacturings of “Same Time, Next Year” and “Charley’s Aunt.” She co-starred with John Davidson and Andrea McArdle within the 1996 Broadway resurgence of “State Fair.”
For 16 years ending in 2001, she organized the Crosby National golf occasion in Bermuda Run, North Carolina.
She is endured by children Harry, Mary, a star finest understood for the tv program “Dallas,” and Nathaniel, an efficient beginner golf fanatic. She was wed to Maurice Sullivan for one decade previous to he was eradicated in a 2010 automobile crash that severely damage Crosby.
