Kathryn Grant
Kathryn Crosby (* 25. November 1933 as Olive Kathryn Grandstaff in Houston , Texas ) is an American actress .
Life
Kathryn Grant came to Hollywood in the early 1950s , where she soon filled numerous decorative roles in mostly lightweight films. Her best-known appearance was the female lead in the fairytale adventure film Sindbad's Seventh Journey in 1958 . In 1959 she took on a major supporting role at the side of James Stewart in the court classic Anatomy of a Murder , after she had already appeared five years earlier in The Window to the Court (but only in an extra role) with Stewart.
As early as 1954, she met the singer Bing Crosby, 30 years her senior and widowed for two years . The two married in 1957. Two years later, Kathryn Grant largely withdrew from show business into family life and had three children with her husband, including Mary Crosby . Bing Crosby had three other children from his first marriage, nearly the same age as their stepmother.
From then on, Kathryn Grant only appeared occasionally as an actress, mainly on her husband's television shows. In 1972 she starred in a TV adaptation of the play Cyrano de Bergerac . Even after Bing Crosby's death in 1977, Kathryn Grant's appearances in front of the camera remained sporadic.
On November 4, 2010, she was in a car accident in which she was seriously injured. Her 85-year-old husband Maurice Sullivan, whom she married in 2000, was killed in the accident.
Filmography (selection)
- 1953: So This Is Love
- 1953: The Beast of the Wild (Arrowhead)
- 1954: The Rear Window
- 1956: A City Goes Through Hell (The Phenix City Story)
- 1956: Storm Center
- 1957: The Guns of Fort Petticoat (The Guns of Fort Petticoat)
- 1957: Seldom Laughed Like This (Operation Mad Ball)
- 1957: The Night the World Exploded
- 1958: Sindbad's Seventh Voyage (The 7th Voyage of Sinbad)
- 1958: Duel at dawn (Gunman's Walk)
- 1959: Anatomy of a Murder (Anatomy of a Murder)
- 1959: The world of sensations (The Big Circus)
- 1978: The Initiation of Sarah (TV movie)
- 2010: Queen of the Lot
Web links
- Kathryn Grant in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kathryn Grant in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
- The Two Mrs. Crosbys (English)
- Kathryn Grant in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maurice William Sullivan (1925-2010)
- ^ The Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com : Bing Crosby's widow recovering from accident. Retrieved July 28, 2019 (American English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grant, Kathryn |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grandstaff, Olive Kathryn (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-american actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Houston , Texas, United States |