Kathryn Crosby, who starred in such movies as Operation Mad Ball , The seventh Voyage of Sinbad and Anatomy of a Homicide earlier than she curtailed her appearing profession because the spouse of Hollywood legend Bing Crosby, has died. She was 90. Crosby died Friday night time surrounded by her household at her house in Hillsborough, California, a household spokesperson stated.
Billed beneath her stage title, Kathryn Grant, the Houston native made 5 options for famed movie noir director Phil Karlson, together with Tight Spot (1955), The Phenix Metropolis Story (1955) and The Brothers Rico (1957). She additionally performed the youthful sister of Martha Hyer’s character in one other movie noir, the Blake Edwards-directed Mister Cory (1957), starring Tony Curtis, and portrayed a budding trapeze artist in The Massive Circus (1959), starring Victor Mature. Quickly after wrapping manufacturing in Spain together with her flip because the damsel in misery Princess Parisa within the Ray Harryhausen fantasy The seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958), she grew to become Bing’s second spouse once they wed in a Las Vegas church on Oct.
24, 1957. She was 23, he was 54. “I’m glad I married an older man,” she stated in Richard Grudens’ 2003 ebook, Bing Crosby: Crooner of the Century .
“After I married Bing, he was already fashioned, his character was set. In different phrases, I knew what I used to be getting. With a youthful man, you possibly can’t inform how he’ll develop with .