Kathryn Crosby, who was still alive, IS DEAD TO ME

Hollywood Reporter was kind not to include any recent pics of her in that article. All the work she had done on her face in the last couple of decades made her look like a freak.

[quote]WEHT Mary Crosby?

Still in prison for shooting J.R.?

r1 Cabbage Patch Doll

r1 Holy shit, just why? Barely even looked human anymore.

It's a zoomable photo too, so you can really inspect the various mistakes from up close, if you have the stomach for it.

These rich old ladies should have traditional face lifts and then just skin treatments. She needed a phenol peel.

Was her face puffy from being beaten with bags of Valencia oranges?

Yikrs. She looks like a shrunken apple head doll at r1

I recently discovered Otto Preminger's 1959 film classic Anatomy of a Murder. It's one of the best courtroom dramas ever and probably Otto Preminger's best film. Kathryn Crosby plays a surprise witness and like the entire cast she's excellent

From the WaPo obit, it sounds as if she could stand her own with him.

I thought Bing was a different father with his second set of kids.

But according to Adrienne King, Harry refused to talk about Bing when they did Friday the 13th because they didn’t have a great relationship,

Kathryn was pregnant with Mary when she shot "Anatomy of a Murder." She said when she asked Preminger if her pregnancy could interfere with the production as scheduled, he told her, "the pregnancy might even have advantages because [your] breasts would be bigger. Maybe that's why he was always nice to me."

She was beautiful when she was younger, she had some really bad work done

R1. Good grief

Almost 47 years a widow.

Mary Crosby played a whore witch on an episode of "Murder, She Wrote." Terrible wig....

State Fair '95

[quote]Hollywood Reporter was kind not to include any recent pics of her in that article.

You, however, were not.

I love how the The Hollywood Reporter spilled the tea about the fact that Bing Crosby kept postponing their wedding date while he had affairs with leading ladies Grace Kelly and Inger Stevens.

As an actress she was a rypical ‘50s ingenue type — pretty but not too pretty, with a good figure. She did have a cool, practical air about her in her performances, which was very 1950s as well — Capable, reliable but not very sexy. But ‘not very sexy’ was evidently much-preferred in a wife though not a mistress — or a co-star.

I gather she was the ‘wait ‘em out’ type, the sort of Texas belle who figured he would finally come back to her and marry her, which he did. And then she was stuck in a plush prison with an aging husband, no career and three kids. I imagine his death was a relief. Now she had the money (he was very wealthy albeit cheap) the house and still had looks enough left to take a lover. Wonder if, in the end, she thought it was worth it.

Good obit that really encourages us to read between the lines.

what was scoop with her at ATC in San Francisco in the early 70s?

did she make a big $ contribution? I seem to remember people telling horror stories,

I wonder if she tried to turn Kerwin Mathews straight during "Sinbad."

Here she is at 43 in December, 1976 not long before bing died. She looks lovely, but older that what we see 43 as in modern times.

R21. I thought that Radie Harris on the right was Charles Nelson Reilly!

I read she was selling a lot of Bings stuff a few years ago without consulting her children.

Does anybody still care about Bing? She probably would have gotten more if she'd sold the stuff earlier.

Where are the photos of Bing and Bob Hope running a train on Ann Jillian?

She appeared in a number of films in the1950s as Kathryn Grant including an uncredited appearance as 'Girl at Songwriter's Party' in Hitchcock's Rear Window.

[Quote] And then she was stuck in a plush prison with an aging husband, no career and three kids. I imagine his death was a relief. Now she had the money (he was very wealthy albeit cheap) the house and still had looks enough left to take a lover. Wonder if, in the end, she thought it was worth it.

Well, if Bing was still fooling around with Inger Stevens and Grace Kelly around the time he married Kathryn, and they had 3 children Bing still had some bang left in him.

Oh no, awful news! What happened?

Apparently she got her cataracts fixed and looked in the mirror.

she was dreadful in those tv specials with Bing in the late 60s

God. Her surgeries. I could have done better with my cutting board, ginzu knifes, and duct tape.

I think she looked fabulous till the end

I saw her in 1996 in State Fair on Broadway. It was a TERRIBLE production of a lousy show and she wasn't great in it. She was only 62 years old and had already had such severe facial yanking she couldn't blink her eyes!

What's bizarre is that I am only a year younger than she was then, and I still look like a middle-aged guy and don't look like a burn victim!

She and Mary got the mom-daughter twofer discount.

R34. Oh, MARY!

Did Bill Cosby ever do a show with Bing Croby? Bing and his kids move next door to the Huxtables. Cosby and Crosby. In a very special episode Gordon Jump opens up a kids bicycle shop in the hood and starts grooming Rudy who is saved by Tootie on her way home from a Tito Jackson concert.

I thought Bing’s trust was written in a way that she didn’t get much money. One of their neighbors owned a carpet cleaning chain and I remember they paid her to do promotions on the radio because she needed $ so badly.

R37 Coit Carpet Cleaning. Legendary local L.A. TV commercials starring Ms. Crosby.

Can we just pause for a moment and soak in the beauty of Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso better known as Gilbert Roland (R26), sitting here (on the left) with Ramón Gil Samaniego better known as Ramon Navarro?

[quote] Bing still had some bang left in him.

lol

Bing Crosby never should have had children. He was mean and cold to his first 4 boys, as he was to most people.

Rosemary Clooney spills a bit in her "White Christmas" commentary. She's too diplomatic to say Crosby was cool and distant, but you can hear that between her words when she describes how Danny Kaye idolized Crosby and hoped to develop a friendship, but Crosby wasn't having it.

I've read reports that Kaye himself was an asshole.

Mary was NEVER pretty.

Even as an eight-year-old, I was immediately drawn to Kerwin Mathews in Sinbad. I was passively watching it while playing with my toys.

Then this thing came along:

I scurried up the steps, dove onto my parents' bed and put the bedspread over me for half-an-hour. I wasn't conscious Kathryn Crosby was even in the movie....

The Washington Post obit was pretty dishy. She must have been very tough to deal with Bing.

Kathryn and Kerwin in 5 Against the House

[quote]Does anybody still care about Bing?

No--most of us still use Google.

If Bing didn't leave his full estate to his own wife where else did he want it to go?

Four guys...a girl...and a gadget

I remember seeing David Bowie and Bing Crosby singing the Little Drummer Boy on TV. Bing was 74.

Bing Crosby did a Christmas special every year. The one with David Bowie was his last. He died not long after taping it.

Bing had 41 number one songs.

I don't remember her. Who was the Crosby woman with the extremely long hair?

As a young gayling I remember watching those 70s Crosby family Christmas specials and thinking his sons were hot.

His brother Bob sang just about the best song ever.

[quote]r51 = I don't remember her. Who was the Crosby woman with the extremely long hair?

Her daughter Mary.

Buh buh buh boooooo.

My memories of her are those ‘60s and ‘70s Crosby Family holiday specials either their homely untalented children, and her orange juice commercial appearances with Bing, and her long red hair with those wide spandex-like yellow hairbands.

^”and their,” not “either”…apologies. :(

Wasn't Cathy Lee was awfully cute?

You're drunk, R58.

Here’s a Crosby family commercial from 1968. She looks stunning here and should’ve stayed a brunette.

I'm from the Bay Area and remember Kathryn Crosby well. She lived in Hillsborough and popped up in the papers now and again, often for an occasional update interview. I also remember the carpet cleaning commercials. She still sometimes sported that forehead curl in later years that she rocked in Anatomy of a Murder. I remember thinking it was the stupidest affectation. She came across as proud and self-satisfied, being the wife and widow of an "icon." Maybe she was OK, I don't know, but she was trapped in that perfect housewife persona as was Nancy Reagan. Stiff, perfect, and better than you

She was attractive in her own way, but I think she married for money, status, and prestige. He could not have been an easy husband. I have a cousin who lives in Hillsborough. Posh and onetime society refuge. Sort of isolated but in a good location on the Peninsula. Far from Hollywood though. Even in such a posh place there is disfunction in families and teen drug abuse. I know this from my cousin and my own friends in the long ago.

She signs herself in as Mrs. Bing Crosby @19:58 as a mystery guest on What's My Line 1958

Yes, R56 she kept those headbands right up to the end. I was surprised to see R1s later life photo of her without one. Were they to hold her face up? Keep her wig on?

She was in a bad car accident a few years back that killed her second husband.

People who talk about working with her say she was lovely. Rosemary Clooney remained friends with her after Bing's passing and says nice things about her in her memoir.

Kathryn Crosby published four books about him, one when he was still alive: Bing and Other Things. Then, My Life with Bing, My First Years with Bing, and My Last Years with Bing. They used to have them in stock at the Barnes and Noble near me, for some reason.

Michael Feinstein got her to do an act in New York in 2005.

I guess bangs can't hide everything

Dixie Crosby was a raging alcoholic. Bing felt guilt about the first set of kids…he donate $$ for the Dixie Crosby Center at LOYOLA HS, the Jesuit prep school his sons attended, as penance.

Didn't she fuck Data?

Forbes dared to put a recent photo of Crosby in their obit.

R1 photo is better.

Crosby and Cosby!

R69. I don't think he bothered making her a drink.