Dolores and I became very good friends at that time, and I traveled all over Europe with her while Bing and Bob were working. Kathryn Crosby: Yes. 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. ABC was formed from the sale of the NBC Blue Network in 1943 after a federal antitrust suit and was willing to join Mutual in breaking the tradition. (The live production of radio shows was also reinforced by the musicians' union and ASCAP, which wanted to ensure continued work for their members.) Seventh Voyage of Sinbad star and the widow of crooner BING CROSBY, KATHRYN GRANT CROSBY, survives deadly car crash in Sierra Nevadas. He was very happy with my ignorance and then we discovered the world togetherKathryn had actually auditioned for a role in White Christmas. Crosby's insistence eventually factored into the further development of magnetic tape sound recording and the radio industry's widespread adoption of it. ", Gilbert, Roger. When Dixie died in 1952, her will provided that her share of the community property be distributed in trust to her sons. Runner-up to Miss Texas 1952. He was the most comfortable man you could ever know, someone youd like to go fishing with. Its a rolling cast that you do. A Crosby-led group purchased station KCOP-TV, in Los Angeles, California, in 1954. Sept. FilmHere Comes the Groom is released, in which Bing is directed by Frank Capra and co-stars with Jane Wyman. There was something magical for listeners in the fact that what they were hearing was being performed and heard live everywhere, at that precise instant. The church was really very helpful at that time. 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The Crosby family lived at 10500 Camarillo Street in North Hollywood for more than five years. [93] They had three children: Harry Lillis III (who played Bill in Friday the 13th), Mary Frances (best known for portraying Kristin Shepard on TV's Dallas), and Nathaniel (the 1981 U.S. Widow Kathryn Crosby dabbled in local theater productions intermittently and appeared in television tributes to her late husband. Harry Lillis Crosby III (8 August 1958 Hollywood, California, USA) Dec. New Yorks Bank of the United States collapses. Come on home. So Lindsay left Brown University, which was too bad. 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. morale, ahead of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, General Dwight Eisenhower, and Bob Hope. 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 . [23][3] His father was of Scottish and English descent; an ancestor, Simon Crosby, emigrated from England to New England in the 1630s during the Puritan migration to New England. Kathryn's anguish was compounded when Gary wrote a book accusing his father of being abusive, both verbally and. Oct. Actually there are a couple of advantages.. "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." Bing opens with Just One More Chance and the show becomes a massive hit. The California Court of Appeal reversed, however, holding that the 1999 settlement barred the claim. 87 years (November 25, 1933) Kathryn Crosby/Age [90], Crosby also was a keen fisherman. ", This page was last edited on 27 February 2023, at 19:40. His Legendary Years How's the sound? Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Rosemary Clooney was one of his best friends? He has achieved greater popularity, made more money, attracted vaster audiences than any other entertainer in history. Dec. 7 The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. For the most part, she felt unchallenged as an actress and retired rather uneventfully after marrying Bing Crosby in 1957. Kathryn Crosby: Nobody knows about that really because Bing never talked to me about that, and all he ever said about Dixie was that she was a wonderful mother and that she was an angel. Crosby presents the school with the nations first Microfilm Research Center. They did a very fine surgery on him and repaired all his valves. 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). (24 October 1957 - 14 October 1977) (his death) (3 children) The group performed on Spokane radio station KHQ, but disbanded after two years. He recorded nearly 2,000 songs during the course of his career but Kathryn says there are many more to be heard.The basements full of them! she laughs. Hed had four kidney stones. He could do four shows a week, if he chose, and then take a month off. When we got together in Las Vegas, Aunt Mary was with me, and Bing was with his driver, Leo Lynn, and we went to the courthouse and got our license. He did make up for it at the end of the week by catching a number of sea trout. Her current husband Maurice William . ABC offered Crosby $30,000 per week to produce a recorded show every Wednesday that would be sponsored by Philco. (1990), Bob Hope wrote, "Dear old Bing, as we called him, the Economy-sized Sinatra. Crosby had a keen interest in sports. Today he is a kind of national institution. [83] They also established the Binglin Stock Farm in Argentina, where they raced horses at Hipdromo de Palermo in Palermo, Buenos Aires. All the jokes, all the remarks to each other. I can't pinpoint it. Mar. Nathaniel, Mary and Harry with their parents Kathryn and Bing Crosby. I could do summer stock, and I loved it. The music and artwork were beautiful, and though I couldnt understand it, the Latin sounded so pretty. "Out of Nowhere", "Just One More Chance", "At Your Command" and "I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store)" were among the best selling songs of 1931.[42]. 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. Crosby played the lead in a series of musical comedy short films for Mack Sennett, signed with Paramount, and starred in his first full-length film 1932's The Big Broadcast (1932), the first of 55 films in which he received top billing. Jan. Bing records I Surrender, Dear, his first solo hit. His composition "At Your Command" was number 1 for three weeks on the U.S. pop singles chart beginning on August 8, 1931. [75][76][77] He used his clout, both professionally and financially, for innovations in audio. To soldiers overseas and to foreigners he has become a kind of symbol of America, of the amiable, humorous citizen of a free land. "Well, Bob Hope worked all the time. 1. Kathryn Grant and Bing Crosby were married for 19 years before Bing Crosby died, leaving behind his partner and 3 children. American troops withdraw from Vietnam. [125] On October 14, at the La Moraleja Golf Course near Madrid, Crosby played 18 holes of golf. [12] He is one of 33 people to have three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,[13] in the categories of motion pictures, radio, and audio recording. On October 13, 1977, Crosby flew alone to Spain to play golf and hunt partridge. The reporters stopped us outside and asked Bing, Are you going to marry Miss Grant? He said, Why yes. Dec. Bing signs new contract with Paramount for nine films in three years for around $175,000 per film. This ad-lib way of working is commonplace in the recording studios today, but it was all new to us. I liked that. 'He got the first licking, and we got the second.'"[113]. Aug. Bings signs a massive deal for weekly 15-minute segments on CBS radio. We had a wonderful time together. Then I got word from the ambassador. bing! He signed a contract with Jack Kapp's new record company, Decca, in late 1934. We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. He loved them all.People who watched him in movies knew exactly what he was like because that was what he put on the screen. Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): A few years earlier, you appeared in Hitchcocks Rear Window (1954). Nov. The Cremo Singer radio show premieres on WABC (CBS affiliate). [55][56], Crosby elaborated on an idea of Al Jolson's: phrasing, or the art of making a song's lyric ring true. He loved to play. NTSC VHS tape, 1989 AES. [38] Hired for $150 a week in 1926, they debuted with Whiteman on December 6 at the Tivoli Theatre in Chicago. [42] Before the end of the year, he signed[clarification needed] with both Brunswick Records and CBS Radio. The series consists of Road to Singapore (1940), Road to Zanzibar (1941), Road to Morocco (1942), Road to Utopia (1946), Road to Rio (1947), Road to Bali (1952), and The Road to Hong Kong (1962). They performed together countless times on stage, radio, film, and television, and made numerous brief and not so brief appearances together in movies aside from the "Road" pictures, Variety Girl (1947) being an example of lengthy scenes and songs together along with billing. I was reared a Baptist, and in high school, my aunt and uncle were Methodists, so I went to the Methodist Church, but then there were no Baptists on the west coast. I asked him if he liked baseball. Actress Patricia Neal (who herself at the time was having an affair with the married Gary Cooper) wrote in her 1988 autobiography As I Am about a trip on a cruise ship to England with actress Joan Caulfield in 1948: She [Joan Caulfield] was a lovely girl and we had some good talks. The song Trade Winds reaches #1. [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]. He returned to broadcasting for the last 13 weeks of the 19451946 season. Oct. It was a week away and he said, Do you think you can find a long dress? So I ran back to Columbia Pictures, where I was working and they offered me the dress Rita Hayworth wore in Gilda, the most gorgeous, long, satin dress you ever saw, complete with full-length opera gloves. During the 1940s, Crosby consistently had difficulties trying to stay away from home while also trying to be there as much as possible for his children.[95]. The Palm Springs area was a . Harry Barris wrote several of Crosby's hits, including "At Your Command", "I Surrender Dear", and "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams". As I passed a Hindu sitting on the corner of a street, I heard something surprisingly familiar. ", Her Heart Can See: The Life and Hymns of Fanny J. Crosby By Edith L. Blumhofer, Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer pg. Oct. White Christmas, written by Irving Berlin, reaches Number 1 for the first time and stays for 11 weeks. Around the same time, Crosby talked to his mother about his intentions and she protested. Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Many people associate Bing Crosby with the yuletide season primarily because of his TV specials, the 1954 film, White Christmas, and the hit single of the same name. At last Kathryn's ordeal was over. In a poll of U.S. troops at the close of World War II, Crosby topped the list as the person who had done the most for G.I. The comments made by FBI investigators in the memos discredited the claims made in the letters. We heart Celebrities. [125] According to Barrios, Crosby was in good spirits throughout the day, and was photographed several times during the round. Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor. [72], According to Shoshana Klebanoff, Crosby became one of the richest men in the history of show business. I Surrender, Dear, Bings first appearance in a Mack Sennett short film, is released. Crosby hired Mullin to start recording his Philco Radio Time show on his German-made machine in August 1947 using the same 50 reels of I.G. However, Crosby had already sold his Elko ranch a year earlier, in 1958, and it is doubtful how much he was really involved in that meeting. The film White Christmas is released. 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. Gary Crosby died of lung cancer in 1995 at age 62, and Phillip Crosby died of a heart attack in 2004 at age 69.[120]. bing! I had more fun doing that. They were just so funny. But Jack Kapp, manager of Brunswick and later Decca, talked him into dropping many of his jazzier mannerisms in favor of a clear vocal style. [89] In 1978, he and Bob Hope were voted the Bob Jones Award, the highest honor given by the United States Golf Association in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship. 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. Its a hot day, and theyre going to be driving seven hours to get up to Arrington. We went to the Sands Hotel and had a little breakfast with just us and Father Ryan and forty reporters. I went to Europe and went to the Christmas Day Mass at Sacre-Coeur, and it was so beautiful. Once we were supposed to go to England to see his horse run in the Royal Sweeps derby and come by this house where Im living in now to see it. He was the number one box office attraction for five consecutive years, 1944 to 1948. No. I really hope everyone enjoys this film because they have all the movies from our basement that they are using, lots of early films of Bing, and its just wonderful! Last year, I did a cabaret in New York out on the island to benefit a school, and I sang several songs. He loved strong women. The June 18, 1945, issue of Life magazine stated, "America's number one star, Bing Crosby, has won more fans, made more money than any entertainer in history. Bing and Kathryn were married October 24, 1957 til his death on October 14, 1977 they had 3 children. All four sons from his first marriage have passed away. Bing's name and his artistry saved the recording industry. My son, Harry, played The Christmas Song, and then I did a cabaret at the Lincoln Center. Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams, The Early Years 19031940. A holiday perennial, the song was repeatedly re-released by Decca, charting another sixteen times. I don't think it had anything to do with Daddy Dearest. 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