I had a dinner party one night and invited Bob and his wife Dolores, Kathryn recalls. She graduated from high school at 15, [1] after which she entered the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority, though she . The family is coming here this Christmas. Bing and Dixie reconciled and he continued trying to help her overcome her alcohol issues. The additional voice meant they could be heard more easily in large New York theaters. On the way back he invited me to the Academy Awards. Kathryn Grant Crosby. Whatever you want. [18] In 1913, his father built a house at 508 E. Sharp Avenue. The U.S enters World War II the next day on December 8, 1941. "I used to tell Sinatra over and over," said Tommy Dorsey, "there's only one singer you ought to listen to and his name is Crosby. But they said I was too young and pretty something they said to everyone!She was only 20, 30 years younger than Crosby and the same age as the eldest of his four sons Gary, by singer and actress Dixie Lee, who had died from cancer in 1952 after 22 years of marriage. Bing and Al Rinker are now a vocal duo. As music critic Henry Pleasants noted in The Great American Popular Singers, something new had entered American music, a style that might be called "singing in American" with conversational ease. They honed their skills with Morrissey. Thats what started the Road shows. Without him, Jack Kapp wouldn't have had a chance in hell of making Decca work and the Great Depression would have wiped out phonograph records for good."[43]. [47] It has since become a staple of holiday radio and the final popular hit of Crosby's career. His mother absolutely ran their family. Together they had two sons and a daughter. The Met was built in 1915. They were just so funny. Let's go have a Coca-Cola." I dont know what Garys problems were, but hed had them from the time he was a little boy. Bing Crosby was, without a doubt, the most popular and influential multimedia star of the first half of the 20th century, and now the public and his fans can learn much more about the icon in a new documentary, American Masters: Bing Crosby Rediscovered, which premieres nationwide Tuesday, December 2 at 8:00 pm on PBS. He didnt always say it, but he always showed it. One More Chance (short film) is released. A pert, vivacious and absolutely stunning brunette, the former Kathryn Grant (nee Olive Kathryn Grandstaff) is now known publicly as Kathryn Crosby. He gave one of the first Ampex Model 300 recorders to his friend, guitarist Les Paul, which led to Paul's invention of multitrack recording. [78], With Frank Sinatra, Crosby was one of the principal backers for the United Western Recorders studio complex in Los Angeles.[79]. In an interview for the same article, Gary clarified that Bing "was like a lot of fathers of that time. What did you think? Around the time Gary published his claims, Phillip stated to the press that "Gary is a whining, bitching crybaby, walking around with a two-by-four on his shoulder and just daring people to nudge it off. There was a lovely man called Barney Dean, and he was called a gagman. Seventh Voyage of Sinbad star and the widow of crooner BING CROSBY, KATHRYN GRANT CROSBY, survives deadly car crash in Sierra Nevadas. If I made a mistake in singing a song or in the script, I could have some fun with it, then retain any of the fun that sounded amusing. Jan. When Mack Sennett signed Crosby to a solo recording contract in 1931, a break with the Rhythm Boys became almost inevitable. His Legendary Years How's the sound? I came back to Austin and finished up my degree and took my Inquiry classes for six weeks. "[109][110] Unlike Gary, Lindsay stated that he preferred to remember "all the good things I did with my dad and forget the times that were rough". "[45] "In all, 60,000,000 Crosby discs have been marketed since he made his first record in 1931. He took Bob salmon fishing up in Canada once, and they had just pulled off to sea when Bob said, 'I have to go back in.' We heart all thing in the Entertainment field. Nov. Dont Fence Me In w/ The Andrews Sisters reaches Number 1. Dispute arose between the two families and was settled in 1999. The Crosby family moves from Tacoma to Spokane, Washington. Crosby graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1955 and two years later became the second wife of the legendary bass-baritone crooner Bing Crosby, being about thirty years his junior. Dec. Bing sings White Christmas on the NBC programKraft Music Hall, marking the first time the public has heard the soon-to-be Number 1 single of all time. Born November 25, 1933, actress and singer Kathryn Crosby performed in 1950s films under the stage names Kathryn Grant and Kathryn Grandstaff. I didnt know that he owned the Pittsburgh Pirates, a big baseball team. [14] He was also known for his collaborations with his friend Bob Hope, starring in the Road to films from 1940 to 1962. We kept meeting each other, and then wed plan to get married, and he would have a kidney stone or something dreadful like that. 2. Thus the laugh-track was born. The "telefilms" were syndicated to individual television stations. Crosby credited Kapp for choosing hit songs, working with many other musicians, and most important, diversifying his repertoire into several styles and genres. Life with Crosby was non-stop, travelling with him around the world on a breathless cycle of work and fun, the two often overlapping, including a visit to England to fi lm The Road To Hong Kong (1962). The weather is so good, and were starting to decorate just about now. Signing an agreement with Columbia for a single motion picture, Crosby wanted Armstrong to appear in a screen adaptation of The Peacock Feather that eventually became Pennies from Heaven. His Amazing Music Records, Clip | The Road Films: Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, Quiz: Bing with the Best. He felt that way about her. Itll probably be one of the last Christmases because our kids have grown children, and theyre always moving, but they will be here this year. Gary got drunk there and had to be sent home, which was so bad. Anatomy of a Murder was written by Robert Traver, and he taught me how to fly fish on the river that was covered with bush on the sides. bing! Well print that. [3] However, Crosby's FBI files had already been published in 1992 and provide no indication that Crosby had ties to the Mafia except for one major, but accidental encounter in Chicago in 1929 which is not mentioned in the files, but is told by Crosby himself in his as-told-to autobiography Call Me Lucky. The couple had three children: Harry Lillis III, Mary Frances and Nathaniel. On August 12, 1938, the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club hosted a $25,000 winner-take-all match race won by Charles S. Howard's Seabiscuit over Binglin's horse Ligaroti. "[57], Critic Henry Pleasants wrote in 1985: [While] the octave B flat to B flat in Bing's voice at that time [1930s] is, to my ears, one of the loveliest I have heard in forty-five years of listening to baritones, both classical and popular, it dropped conspicuously in later years. Bing Crosby Enterprises gave the world's first demonstration of videotape recording in Los Angeles on November 11, 1951. Written by Melissa Parker, Posted in Interviews Actors, Image attributed to Bing Crosby Enterprises. On March 20, 1977, after videotaping a CBS concert special, "Bing - 50th Anniversary Gala", at the Ambassador Auditorium with Bob Hope looking on, Crosby fell off the stage into an orchestra pit, rupturing a disc in his back requiring a month-long stay in the hospital. He led his radio show for Woodbury Soap for two seasons while his live appearances dwindled. Mar. Apr. In 1936, Crosby exercised an option in his Paramount contract to regularly star in an out-of-house film. Gary's first wife of 19 years, Barbara Cosentino, of whom Gary wrote in his book, "I could confide in her about Mom and Dad and my childhood",[114] and with whom Gary stayed friendly after the divorce, stated: I do not know if what's in the book is true but he never said anything to me about whippings. "The Salt Lake City Office has developed information indicating that Moe Dalitz received an invitation to join a deer hunting party at Bing Crosby's Elko, Nevada, ranch, together with the crooner, his Las Vegas dentist and several business associates." Kathryn Crosby: They loved them! In On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio, John Dunning wrote about German engineers having developed a tape recorder with a near-professional broadcast quality standard: [Crosby saw] an enormous advantage in prerecording his radio shows. Crosby was one of the first singers to exploit the intimacy of the microphone rather than use the deep, loud vaudeville style associated with Al Jolson. I had a great adventure. I asked him if he liked baseball. [47] Crosby was dismissive of his role in the song's success, saying "a jackdaw with a cleft palate could have sung it successfully".[48]. Kathryn Crosby: I suppose that happened, but I didnt hear it. People were there from Paramount, and one big executive producer said, Theyre very good together. Harry said, I wouldve killed to get to go with Louis Armstrong to Australia, which was an experience that Bing gave to Gary. Kathryn Crosby: Absolutely, from the time that I was about three, I wanted to be an actress. Either in December 1945 or January 1946 Crosby approached Cardinal Francis Spellman with his difficulties with dealing with his wife's alcoholism and his love for Caulfield and his plan to file for divorce. Billboard magazine used different methodologies during his career. Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Did you and Bing raise your children in the Catholic faith? At the end of the game, Bings friend, Cesar de Zulueta asked him, How do you feel? Bing said, Im fine. [118] They were instead receiving several thousand dollars per month from a trust left in 1952 by their mother, Dixie Lee. [116][117], Crosby's will established a blind trust in which none of the sons received an inheritance until they reached the age of 65, intended by Crosby to keep them out of trouble. They didnt like delivering babies on airplanes back then. I met good friends there. Again I didnt know that hed built Del Mar racetrack in California.There was so much of his life that I didnt know about. While in the UK, Crosby recorded his final album, Seasons, and his final TV Christmas special with guest David Bowie on September 11 (which aired a little over a month after Crosby's death). "[109] Crosby influenced the development of the post World War II recording industry. He was the most comfortable man you could ever know, someone youd like to go fishing with. It was halfway finished then. [55][56], Crosby elaborated on an idea of Al Jolson's: phrasing, or the art of making a song's lyric ring true. Bing was quite lazy. Feb. Bing plays himself in Reaching for the Moon, a film starring Douglas Fairbanks. Before they went to the place where they would be shooting, they played a round of golf. [91], Crosby was married twice. I can't pinpoint it. They joined the Gus Arnheim Orchestra, performing nightly in the Coconut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel. Kathryn Crosby: The first movie I made that was exciting was The Phenix City Story. Kathryn Grant and Bing Crosby were married for 19 years before Bing Crosby died, leaving behind his partner and 3 children. I certainly never witnessed anything between him and his father. 3 in the UK singles charts. I asked if he liked baseball because I was Queen of the Texas Buffalos in Houston. The nation's appetite for Crosby's voice and personality appears insatiable. I think there was some father-son stuff that everyone has. She made her stage debut when she was only three years old and was born in . Fisher, J. I said, Yes. There have been disputes between Crosby's two families beginning in the late 1990s. They were working in television, so I got to do a lot of short films. [97], Crosby reportedly had an alcohol problem between the late 1920s and early 1930s, but he got a handle on his drinking in 1931. "Entertaining Catholics: Bing Crosby, Religion and Cultural Pluralism in 1940s America. [3]:8. The Crosby family lived at 10500 Camarillo Street in North Hollywood for more than five years. He starred in radio shows for nearly 30 years, remained a hit on tele vision for 25 years and had well over 300 chart singles, including more than 40 No1s. [125][126] At the ninth hole, construction workers building a house nearby recognized him, and when asked for a song, Crosby sang "Strangers in the Night". How many times has Bing Crosby been married? Mullin had not yet succeeded with videotape, so Crosby filmed the series of 26-minute shows at the Hal Roach Studios, and the "telefilms" were syndicated to individual television stations. [81] NAFI Corporation and Crosby purchased television station KPTV in Portland, Oregon, for $4 million on September 1, 1959. Bing had certain health problems, but after we did the Christmas show at the London Palladium, we traveled to Manchester and Brighton, and then he went to Spain to shoot grouse with a good friend. Pianist Harry Barris joins the duo to make The Rhythm Boys. that Crosby's second wife, Kathryn Grant Crosby, may have am interest in the property and gave the first wife's estate 20 days to name her in an amended petition. ", Her Heart Can See: The Life and Hymns of Fanny J. Crosby By Edith L. Blumhofer, Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer pg. Their first recording, in October 1926, was "I've Got the Girl" with Don Clark's Orchestra, but the Columbia-issued record was inadvertently recorded at a slow speed, which increased the singers' pitch when played at 78rpm. Giddins, Gary (2002). The film Pennies from Heaven is released and the eponymous song from the film reaches Number 1. Bing had a long surgery where they had to remove a large tumor the size of a grapefruit which was interesting because it was Nocardia which is half bacteria and half fungus that he probably got in Africa. The man was listening to Bing Crosby sing, "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive". Relying on a retroactive amendment to the California Civil Code, Dixie's trust brought suit again, in 2010, alleging that Crosby's right of publicity was community property, and that Dixie's trust was entitled to a share of the revenue it produced. Im sure youre okay. Bing said, But I cant walk. It had swollen so much, he couldnt walk. Follow entertainer Bing Crosbys remarkable life, from growing up in Spokane, Washington, to his death after a good game of golf at a course in Madrid, Spain. Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams, The Early Years 19031940. Kathryn Crosby: It was a terrible surprise, but he had, of course, been sick. This ad-lib way of working is commonplace in the recording studios today, but it was all new to us. The success of his first film brought him a contract with Paramount, and he began a pattern of making three films a year. He also signs a contract with Decca Records for five years at $60,000 per annum plus a percentage. After the war, the event resumed play in 1947 on golf courses in Pebble Beach, where it has been played ever since. It was an amazing experience! We realized he had to get some very serious examinations in Hillsborough, and we met Dr. Poon there, and he showed us an instrument, which had the blood going back and forth in the heart. **** He loved safaris and loved being in the bush seeing the wild animals. Stanley, Bob, Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop Music, Pegasus Books, 2022, pg 220, Grudens, 2002, p. 236. Dec. Bells of St. Marys is released, a film in which Bing reprises his role as Father OMalley alongside Ingrid Bergman and becomes top box office attraction for 1946. He had no place to have a valve, so they had to create a place for a valve, and he lived for ten more years. According to Betty Caulfield, Spellman told Crosby: "Bing, you are Father O'Malley and under no circumstances can Father O'Malley get a divorce." He added, "We were brought up that way. May Bing records White Christmas and joins Hollywood Victory Caravan, a traveling show to raise money for war bonds. However, while Crosby can be called a jazz singer, he was not strictly only a jazz singer as he modeled the style and techniques to a broad scope of music that he performed, ranging from Jazz to Country to even such material as operetta arias. I hadnt spoken to him for a year, and he wrote to me and asked me to go to dinner. An Afternoon with Jack Mullin. They sat across the table from each other but a little separated and dinner was proceeding properly then I moved around so they were sitting next to each other and everything just started going off like a fire-cracker, she says. However, the document also clearly indicates that at their meetings a third person, on most instances Caulfield's mother, was present. In 1957, he married Kathryn Grant, a young actress and singer he had met on the Paramount lot. Bing is introduced to Al Rinker and joins him in the local Spokane band, the Musicaladers. Born Olive Kathryn Grandstaff in West Columbia, Texas, she graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1955. Harry Crosby is an investment banker who occasionally makes singing appearances. Crosby gained valuable experience on tour for a year with Whiteman and performing and recording with Bix Beiderbecke, Jack Teagarden, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Eddie Lang, and Hoagy Carmichael. I went to university at 16 and Hollywood at 18.By the time they wed in 1957 Kathryn too was making a name for herself in Hollywood, starring opposite Tony Curtis in the Blake Edwards-directed romance Mister Cory and with Jack Lemmon in comedy Operation Mad Ball. On October 18, 1977, following a private funeral Mass at St. Paul's Catholic Church in Westwood,[128] Crosby was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. She appeared as a guest star on her husband's 19641965 ABC sitcom The Bing Crosby Show. [51] He was, by his own definition, a "phraser", a singer who placed equal emphasis on both the lyrics and the music. 'I never expected affection from my father so it didn't bother me,' he once told an interviewer.'" Dolores and I became very good friends at that time, and I traveled all over Europe with her while Bing and Bob were working. In 1996, Dixie's trust sued HLC and Kathryn for declaratory relief as to the trust's entitlement to interest, dividends, royalties, and other income derived from the community property of Crosby and Dixie. He was a frequent guest on the musical variety shows of the 1950s and 1960s, appearing on various variety shows as well as numerous late-night talk shows and his own highly rated specials. Crosby admired Louis Armstrong for his musical ability, and the trumpet maestro was a formative influence on Crosby's singing style. The church was really very helpful at that time. Major Support for American Masters provided by. A graduate of the University of Texas and a student nurse at one point, she found her way into films via the beauty pageant circuit. Seemingly content with family life, she, along with her children, dutifully appeared opposite her husband singing and lightly joking in his many popular Christmas-special presentations and even hosted a couple of syndicated TV series, but that was about it.After Bing's death in 1977, however, she slowly involved herself in acting again, appearing every now and then on stage in such productions as "Same Time, Next Year", "Charley's Aunt" and a Broadway revival of the musical "State Fair" in 1996. July The Rhythm Boys first appear at the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles; Bing is the standout favorite. We heart Celebrities. In 1906, his family moved to Spokane in Eastern Washington state, where he was raised. 1968 Why Did People In Old Hollywood Talk Funny. He returned to broadcasting for the last 13 weeks of the 19451946 season. The morning after the Academy Awards, which was my first outed date with Bing, I flew to Phenix City and did that movie with Richard Kiley. The song remains the bestselling single of all time. Mar. Sometimes, if Crosby was having fun with a song and not really working at it, we had to make it up out of two or three parts. [42] His recording of "White Christmas", has sold over 50 million copies around the world. [125] On October 14, at the La Moraleja Golf Course near Madrid, Crosby played 18 holes of golf. The song appeared in his films Holiday Inn (1942), anda decade laterin White Christmas (1954). We heart movies. Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Rosemary Clooney was one of his best friends? Yet now, at 48, Bing's ambitious and determined widow finds herself at the center of a controversy that is reopening some old wounds in the oft-troubled Crosby family. Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor. Bing Crosby with first wife Dixie Lee and three of their four sons: Phillip, Dennis and Lindsay. I not only got my diploma from the University of Texas, I got to work with excellent people like Elsa Lanchester and Cecil Kellaway and got to be directed by Paul Henreid on whom I had a crush from the time I was a little girl. Crosby and Al continued at the Clemmer Theatre for several months often with three other men Wee Georgie Crittenden, Frank McBride and Lloyd Grinnell and they were billed The Clemmer Trio or The Clemmer Entertainers depending who performed.[38]. I think our kids were wish fulfillment because Bing taught Harry to play golf and to hunt, and he taught Nathaniel to play golf. The priest said, You should wait a while. I said, You cant keep me out. He said, Youre right. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the express written consent of the publisher. [65], He received 23 gold and platinum records, according to the book Million Selling Records. Apr. Oct. Its Been a Long, Long Time with Les Paul reaches Number 1. [112], Dennis Crosby reportedly "said his older brother (Gary) was the most severely treated of the four boys. Precisely what the future holds for Crosby neither his family nor his friends can conjecture. Although he was passionate about the team, he was too nervous to watch the deciding Game 7 of the 1960 World Series, choosing to go to Paris with Kathryn and listen to its radio broadcast. I think I wouldve been the worst mother in the world if my kids were not good kids or they werent going to grow up. Also records his final album, Seasons. I needed something to lift my spirits. In the years after Crosby's death, his eldest son, Gary, wrote a highly critical account of his time with his father in 1983 . Known as the first multimedia star, Bill Crosby is a Hollywood legend. Two years later she became Bing Crosby's second wife, being more than thirty years his junior. (2012). July The film High Society is released, starring Bing, Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly and Louis Armstrong. 'He got the first licking, and we got the second.'"[113]. On June 16, 1963, Crosby received her nurse's cap, signifying her becoming a registered nurse after studying at Queen of Angels Hospital in Los Angeles. Out of Nowhere becomes Bings first solo Number 1hit. They were married Oct. 24, 1957 in Las Vegas. After it began broadcasting, the station was sold within a year to Northern Pacific Radio and Television Corporation. Jan. Bing records I Surrender, Dear, his first solo hit. [5], On November 4, 2010, Crosby was seriously injured in an automobile accident in the Sierra Nevada that killed her 85-year-old second husband, Maurice William Sullivan, whom she had married in 2000. [1] He was a leader in record sales, radio ratings, and motion picture grosses from 1926 to 1977. I got to be a friend of the Immaculate Heart nuns after that, and it made it possible for me to bear life without him. Sept. Mary Frances Crosby, Bings first daughter and second child with Kathryn, is born. Kathryn Crosby (born Olive Kathryn Grandstaff; November 25, 1933)[1] is a retired American actress and singer who performed in films under the stage names Kathryn Grant and Kathryn Grandstaff. Getting to know Paramount Pictures was quite amazing. Nathaniel Crosby, Crosby's younger son from his second marriage, is a former high-level golfer who won the U.S. | Steve Hoffman Music Forums", "The Chronological Bing Crosby on Television", "Jack Kapp Bing Crosby Internet Museum", "On the Record: How did Bing Crosby get his nickname? June Bings first four sons form the quartet The Crosby Boys.. In 1950, Crosby became the third person to win the William D. Richardson award, which is given to a non-professional golfer "who has consistently made an outstanding contribution to golf". Mary Frances Crosby was born on September 14, 1959, in Los Angeles, California, the only daughter of singer and actor Bing Crosby from his second marriage to actress Kathryn Grant. Bing and Kathy said the magic words on Oct. 24, 1957. We left Mary Frances at home, but I was expecting Nathaniel at the time. Crosby and Armstrong remained warm acquaintances for decades, occasionally singing together in later years, e.g. She confided to me that she desperately wanted to marry Bing Crosby. His partner was World Cup champion Manuel Piero; their opponents were club president Csar de Zulueta and Valentn Barrios. Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Birmingham, Alabama. In his 1950 film Mr. Music, he is seen singing into an Ampex tape recorder that reproduced his voice better than anything else. Crosby was associated with ABC's The Hollywood Palace as the show's first and most frequent guest host and appeared annually on its Christmas edition with his wife Kathryn and his younger children, and continued after The Hollywood Palace was eventually canceled. Crosby had separate charting singles every year between 1931 and 1954; the annual re-release of "White Christmas" extended that streak to 1957. Statistician Joel Whitburn at Billboard determined that Crosby was America's most successful recording act of the 1930s and again in the 1940s. [20][21], He was the fourth of seven children: brothers Laurence Earl "Larry" (18951975), Everett Nathaniel (18961966), Edward John "Ted" (19001973), and George Robert "Bob" (19131993); and two sisters, Catherine Cordelia (19041974) and Mary Rose (19061990). Mack Sennett signed Crosby to a solo recording contract in 1931, a big baseball team dispute arose between two! 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