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{{for|the woman crowned Miss Alabama 2003|Catherine Crosby}}
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| name = Kathryn Crosby
| birthname = Olive Kathryn Grandstaff
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[[File:Bing Crosby & Kathryn 1960 Com L09-0188-0003.tif|thumb|Kathryn and Bing Crosby in 1960]]
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
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>
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