Obituary: Actress and registered nurse Kathryn Crosby Sullivan, who was also the widow of entertainer Bing Crosby, died Friday of natural causes. She was 90 years old. She met Bing in the mid-1950s, when she was in her early twenties and he was in his early fifties and had been widowed for a few years (first wife Dixie Lee died in 1952). They married in 1957. They had three children together, and she had scaled down her film career at that point. Another reason she scaled it back is because she desired a career change, so she studied to be and then became a registered nurse. She was in that field for many years.
After Bing died, she continued in her field, with acting, especially on the stage. She eventually remarried, to Maurice Sullivan in 2000, but he tragically died in an auto accident in 2010 which also left her seriously injured. She had homes in Genoa, Nevada, and Hillsborough, California, at the time of the crash.
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Crosby starred in over 20 films over the course of her career including “The 7th Voyage of Sinbad,” “Anatomy of a Murder,” “Operation Mad Ball” and “The Wild Party.” She typically performed under the stage names Kathryn Grant and Kathryn Grandstaff.
Crosby appeared frequently on Bing Crosby’s “Merrie Olde Christmas” specials and hosted “The Kathryn Crosby Show,” a 30-minute talk show based in San Francisco. Following the death of her husband in 1977, she performed in several stage productions such as the 1996 Broadway revival of “State Fair.”
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