Kathryn Grant Crosby, the actress recognized for The seventh Voyage of Sinbad and Anatomy of a Homicide, has died. She was 90.
The widow of Bing Crosby died of pure causes on Friday night time at her Hillsborough, California house, in keeping with a spokesperson for the Crosby household.
Born Olive Kathryn Grandstaff on Nov. 25, 1933 in West Columbia, Texas, she graduated from College of Texas at Austin earlier than successful a magnificence contest with the prize being a display screen check in Hollywood with William Holden.
Starting her onscreen profession as Kathryn Grant in 1953, she appeared in such movies as So This Is Love (1953), Rear Window (1954) and The Wild Occasion (1956).
Whereas penning a column about Hollywood for her hometown newspaper, Kathryn met Bing throughout an interview on the set of his beloved 1954 vacation basic White Christmas. They wed in 1957, and she or he went on to turn into a registered nurse and instructor.
Bing Crosby performs with spouse Kathryn Grant Crosby on Dec. 22, 1975 at San Francisco’s Laguna Honda Hospital. (Bettmann)
Kathryn continued showing onscreen through the years in such movies as Operation Mad Ball (1957), The seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958), Anatomy of a Homicide (1959) and The Initiation of Sarah (1978). She additionally continued showing along with her household on Bing’s standard Christmas specials, along with internet hosting The Kathryn Crosby Present, a neighborhood San Francisco speak present within the ’70s. On stage, Kathryn appeared within the 1996 Broadway revival of State Truthful.
Following Bing’s death in 1977, Kathryn Crosby is survived by their three kids, Harry, Mary and Nathaniel, in addition to a number of grandchildren.
