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Line 1: {{Use mdy dates\|date=July 2021}} {{~~short~~Short description\|American actress (born 1933)}} {{for\|the woman crowned Miss Alabama 2003\|Catherine Crosby}} {{Infobox person \| image = ~~Bing and~~ Kathryn Crosby in 1976.JPG \| caption = Crosby ~~with her husband [[Bing Crosby]] on his~~in 1976 ~~Christmas special~~ \| name = Kathryn Crosby \| birthname = Olive Kathryn Grandstaff Line 28: [[File:Bing Crosby & Kathryn 1960 Com L09-0188-0003.tif\|thumb\|Kathryn and Bing Crosby in 1960]] ~~She~~Crosby appeared as a guest star on her husband's 1964–1965 sitcom ''[[The Bing Crosby Show (1964 TV series)\|The Bing Crosby Show]]''. Crosby largely retired from acting after her marriage, but did have featured roles as Princess Parisa in ''[[The 7th Voyage of Sinbad]]'' (1958) and in the courtroom drama ''[[Anatomy of a Murder]]'' (1959). She also played the part of Mama Bear with her husband and children in ''[[Goldilocks (TV)\|Goldilocks]]'', and she 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 (musical)\|State Fair]]''. On June 16, 1963, Crosby ~~received her nurse's cap, signifying her becoming~~became a registered nurse after studying at Queen of Angels Hospital in Los Angeles.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://outlet.historicimages.com/products/rsd99527\|title=1963 Press Photo Kathryn Crosby wife Bing Crosby nurse cap Queen Angels School\|website=Historic Images\|access-date=December 14, 2019\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191015194530/https://outlet.historicimages.com/products/rsd99527\|archive-date=October 15, 2019\|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="LAT Obit">{{cite news \|last1=West \|first1=Richard \| first2=Ted Jr. \| last2=Thackrey \|title=From the Archives: Bing Crosby Dies at 73 on Golf Course \|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-bing-crosby-19771015-story.html \|work=Los Angeles Times \|date=October 15, 1977 \|access-date=December 17, 2019 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217051654/https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-bing-crosby-19771015-story.html \|archive-date=December 17, 2019 \|url-status=live }}</ref> For 16 years ending in 2001, Crosby hosted the Crosby National Golf Tournament at Bermuda Run Country Club in [[Bermuda Run, North Carolina]]. A nearby bridge carrying [[U.S. Route 158]] over the [[Yadkin River]] is named for Kathryn Crosby.<ref>Jim Sparks, "Crews to Start Work on Bridge," ''Winston-Salem Journal'', November 21, 2007.</ref> On November 4, 2010, Crosby was seriously injured in an automobile accident in the Sierra Nevada that killed her second husband, 85-year-old Maurice William Sullivan, whom she had married in 2000.<ref name = Griffith>{{cite news\|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/dec/2/bing-crosbys-widow-recovering-from-accident\|title=Bing Crosby's widow recovering from accident\|author=Martin Griffith\|agency=Associated Press\|date=December 2, 2010\|access-date=March 10, 2011\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110221052441/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/dec/2/bing-crosbys-widow-recovering-from-accident/\|archive-date=February 21, 2011\|url-status=live}}</ref> On 1 June 1, 2014, Crosby sang in a [[Rodgers and Hart]] tribute.<ref name="mercurynews/crosby-rodgers-hart">{{cite news \|title=Saratoga: Kathryn Crosby to sing in Rodgers and Hart tribute \|url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/05/21/saratoga-kathryn-crosby-to-sing-in-rodgers-and-hart-tribute/ \|access-date=24 March 2023 \|work=The Mercury News \|date=21 May 2014}}</ref> == Filmography ==