Sterling, C. H., & Kittross, J. M. (1990). They were not afraid of television. Oct. Nathaniel Patrick Crosby, Bings last son and third child with Kathryn, is born. My son, Harry, played The Christmas Song, and then I did a cabaret at the Lincoln Center. It was the largest single bank failure in the countrys history. [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. If I ever felt strongly enough about something to ask him, he always did it. After it began broadcasting, the station was sold within a year to Northern Pacific Radio and Television Corporation. Despite being a Catholic, Crosby was seriously considering divorce in order to marry Caulfield. [2], 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. We heart Beverly Hills. Mar. 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. Her best known role, however, was as the princess-in-distress in the special effects-laden epic fantasy The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), which has since reached semi-cult status. Their duet was released in 1982 as a single 45-rpm record and reached No. Born November 25, 1933, actress and singer Kathryn Crosby performed in 1950s films under the stage names Kathryn Grant and Kathryn Grandstaff. Bing and Dixie reconciled and he continued trying to help her overcome her alcohol issues. The Bing Crosby on Broadway stage show opens at the Uris Theatre in New York City. and helped morale of the American public. Their longest marriage was 22 years to Dixie Lee. Known as the first multimedia star, Bill Crosby is a Hollywood legend. I asked him if he liked baseball. Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Birmingham, Alabama. Whiteman needed something different to break up his musical selections, and Crosby and Rinker filled this requirement. Harry Crosby is an investment banker who occasionally makes singing appearances. Thus the laugh-track was born. Bing Crosby married actress Kathryn Grant in 1957 and raised a second family. The people who loved him will still love him and their children will love him. On November 8, 1937, after Lux Radio Theatre's adaptation of She Loves Me Not, Joan Blondell asked Crosby how he got his nickname: Crosby: "Well, I'll tell you, back in the knee-britches day, when I was a wee little tyke, a mere broth of a lad, as we say in Spokane, I used to totter around the streets, with a gun on each hip, my favorite after school pastime was a game known as "Cops and Robbers", I didn't care which side I was on, when a cop or robber came into view, I would haul out my trusty six-shooters, made of wood, and loudly exclaim bing! Feb. Bing meets future wife, Kathryn Grant, for the first time. He returned to broadcasting for the last 13 weeks of the 19451946 season. Bing was very tolerant, though, of my large, expansive idiocy. Gallagher and Mr. Shean remarks, and then theyd tell the jokes. Bing and Kathryn were married October 24, 1957 til his death on October 14, 1977 they had 3 children. Kathryn Crosby: Rear Window was shot when I was first at Paramount Pictures. [78] In 1948, the second season of Philco shows was recorded with the Ampex Model 200A and Scotch 111 tape from 3M. June 27 Bing and Dixie welcome their first son, Gary Evan Crosby. Crosby married Dixie Lee in September 1930. How old is Catherine Crosby? Crosby invested $50,000 in Ampex with the intent to produce more machines. The reporters stopped us outside and asked Bing, Are you going to marry Miss Grant? He said, Why yes. He was the most comfortable man you could ever know, someone youd like to go fishing with. Crosby had one confirmed extramarital affair between 1945 and the late 1940s, while married to his first wife Dixie. "Entertaining Catholics: Bing Crosby, Religion and Cultural Pluralism in 1940s America. I Surrender, Dear, Bings first appearance in a Mack Sennett short film, is released. 1966 Why dont we write some movies for them? Dolores thought that was pretty funny, and everybody thought it would be a good idea. Jan. Dinah with the Mills Brothers reaches Number 1. I stopped and smiled in grateful acknowledgment. (1928), with Harry Barris and, "Ev'rything's Agreed Upon" (1930), with Harry Barris, "Believe Me" (1931), with James Cavanaugh and, "You Taught Me How to Love" (1931), with H. C. LeBlang and Don Herman, "My Woman" (1932), with Irving Wallman and Max Wartell, "Cutesie Pie" (1932), with Red Standex and, "I Was So Alone, Suddenly You Were There (1932), with, "Love Me Tonight" (1932), with Victor Young and Ned Washington, US, no. Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947) is based on Lee's life. It was really a working place. Ultimately, Crosby chose to end the relationship and to stay with his wife. Bing attends the Academy Awards where he is nominated for Best Actor for his role in The Country Girl, but loses to Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront. Bing and I drive a block and a half to the Catholic Church, and we were married there. These were his last words. The Hindu nodded and smiled back. [127] At the clubhouse and later in the ambulance, house physician Dr. Laiseca tried to revive him, but was unsuccessful. In 1963, he and his wife Kathryn moved with their 3 young children from Los Angeles to a $175,000 10-bedroom Tudor estate in Hillsborough because they did not want to raise their children in Hollywood, according to son Nathaniel. Oct. 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. Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): New Orleans is one of the best places in the world to experience fine dining! Crosby left the network and remained off the air for seven months, creating a legal battle with his sponsor Kraft that was settled out of court. Statistician Joel Whitburn at Billboard determined that Crosby was America's most successful recording act of the 1930s and again in the 1940s. bing! [58], Crosby's was among the most popular and successful musical acts of the 20th century. 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. Currently listed for just under $3.5 million, the mid-century modern home was built for Crosby and his second wife, Kathryn Grant, shortly after their marriage in 1957. His record hit the charts on October 3, 1942, and rose to number 1 on October 31, where it stayed for 11 weeks. But his chart success remains impressive: 396 chart singles, including roughly 41 number 1 hits. Together they had two sons and a daughter. [112], Dennis Crosby reportedly "said his older brother (Gary) was the most severely treated of the four boys. In 1957, he married Kathryn Grant, a young actress and singer he had met on the Paramount lot. [115], Bing's younger brother, singer and jazz bandleader Bob Crosby, recalled at the time of Gary's revelations that Bing was a "disciplinarian", as their mother and father had been. Oct. Bing meets Bob Hope for the first time and gets his first starring role as a radio singer in the musical comedy The Big Broadcast. His song Please reaches #1. One of the reasons Bing and I didnt get married one of the times was that Bing was watching carefully over Lindsay hoping hed get off to college. President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers the first of his evening fireside chats to the public over radio. His last TV appearance was a Christmas special, Merrie Olde Christmas, taped in London in September 1977 and aired weeks after his death. Kathryn Grant and Bing Crosby were married for 19 years before Bing Crosby died, leaving behind his partner and 3 children. Crosby won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Going My Way (1944) and was nominated for its sequel, The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), opposite Ingrid Bergman, becoming the first of six actors to be nominated twice for playing the same character. Bing Crosby was married to Dixie Lee for 22 years, and Kathryn Grant for 20 years. Birthday: November 25, (89 years) HomeTown: Houston , Texas, United States. Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Did you and Bing raise your children in the Catholic faith? Im terribly proud, says Kathryn, his champion down the years. On October 13, 1977, Crosby flew alone to Spain to play golf and hunt partridge. Amateur in 1981 at age 19, becoming the youngest winner in the history of that event at the time. We heart all thing in the Entertainment field. He added, "We were brought up that way. We rented a place called Cranbourne Court, and our two families lived together. In the wake of a solid decade of headlining mainly smash hit musical comedy films in the 1930s, Crosby starred with Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour in six of the seven Road to musical comedies between 1940 and 1962 (Lamour was replaced with Joan Collins in The Road to Hong Kong and limited to a lengthy cameo), cementing Crosby and Hope as an on-and-off duo, despite never declaring themselves a "team" in the sense that Laurel and Hardy or Martin and Lewis (Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis) were teams. I like baseball a lot. I didnt know he owned the Pirates. Harry Crosby and Nathaniel Crosby, and of actress Mary Crosby. 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. In addition to publishing two sets of memoirs ("Bing and Other Things" and "My Life with Bing"), she annually hosts the Crosby Gold Tournament in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. No. . They didnt like delivering babies on airplanes back then. Rediscover the Bing Crosby Era, Clip | Filmmaker Interview with Director Robert Trachtenberg, Clip | Bing Crosby, An All-Purpose Singer, Clip | Performance: Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, Clip | Bings Charity and Take Care of List, Clip | Michael Feinstein and Tony Bennett on Bings Intimate Style, S28 Ep10: Bing Crosby Rediscovered - Full Film. Bing and Bob never worked on them. He has achieved greater popularity, made more money, attracted vaster audiences than any other entertainer in history. However, the addition of pianist and aspiring songwriter Harry Barris made the difference, and The Rhythm Boys were born. I can't pinpoint it. But NBC and CBS refused to broadcast prerecorded radio programs. This ad-lib way of working is commonplace in the recording studios today, but it was all new to us. Feb. First ever Crosby Pro-Am golf tournament is held, which later becomes the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. [29] The university granted him an honorary doctorate in 1937. It was a very good movie, and I loved living in Alabama during that time. They honed their skills with Morrissey. Bing Crosby, byname of Harry Lillis Crosby, (born May 3, 1903, Tacoma, Washington, U.S.died October 14, 1977, near Madrid, Spain), American singer, actor, and songwriter who achieved great popularity in radio, recordings, and motion pictures. Bing Crosby married actress Kathryn Grant in 1957 and raised a second family. I always loved acting. He first took up golf at age 12 as a caddy. [62] The single "White Christmas" sold over 50 million copies according to Guinness World Records. [119], Lindsay Crosby died in 1989 at age 51, and Dennis Crosby died in 1991 at age 56, both by suicide from self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Apr. Before 1958, gold records were awarded by record companies. [52] Paul Whiteman's hiring of Crosby, with phrasing that echoed jazz, particularly his bandmate Bix Beiderbecke's trumpet, helped bring the genre to a wider audience. 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. Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams, The Early Years 19031940. 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]. [19] The house sits on the campus of his alma mater, Gonzaga University, as a museum housing over 200 artifacts from his life and career, including his Oscar. We had a twelve-grade schoolhouse, and anytime there was a senior high school play, and they needed a child, I was elected. A friend nicknames Harry Bingo, later changed to Bing, for his love of an illustrated parody newspaper called The Bingville Bugle.. Mullin's 1976 memoir of these early days of experimental recording agrees with Crosby's account: In the evening, Crosby did the whole show before an audience. 15 Minutes with Bing Crosby, his nationwide solo radio debut, began broadcasting on September 2, 1931. Kathryn's anguish was compounded when Gary wrote a book accusing his father of being abusive, both verbally and. bing!, as my luckless victim fell clutching his side, I would shout bing! Bing I asked my doctor what could be done, and he said, Well, you can stay and worry, and itll take six weeks, or you can go away and worry, and itll take six weeks, but in six weeks, hell be able to walk again. We went through that. It was halfway finished then. He became the first performer to prerecord his radio shows and master his commercial recordings onto magnetic tape. The family created an official website[131] on October 14, 2007, the 30th anniversary of Crosby's death. Dec. Film Exhibitors name Bing the top box office star of the year, the first of five consecutive years. [81] NAFI Corporation and Crosby purchased television station KPTV in Portland, Oregon, for $4 million on September 1, 1959. Bing was quite lazy. She confided to me that she desperately wanted to marry Bing Crosby. 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]. June Submissions to the SEC indicate that Bing has the second highest income in the US behind MGM studio chief, Louis B. Mayer. I decided that if its not supposed to be, it wouldnt be. Seventh Voyage of Sinbad star and the widow of crooner BING CROSBY, KATHRYN GRANT CROSBY, survives deadly car crash in Sierra Nevadas. The song Only Forever reaches Number 1 and remains for there 10 weeks. June 6 D-Day: The Allies invade Normandy, France. [109] In an interview with People magazine, Phillip stated that "we never got an extra whack or a cuff we didn't deserve".[109]. Hed had four kidney stones. He was very happy with my ignorance and then we discovered the world togetherKathryn had actually auditioned for a role in White Christmas. We heart influencers and interesting people. Jan. Bing Crosby Enterprises and ABC invest in Ampex machines, revolutionizing the radio industry. [51] In the framework of the novelty-singing style of the Rhythm Boys, he bent notes and added off-tune phrasing, an approach that was rooted in jazz. Bing meets actress Dixie Lee, his future wife, and conducts screen tests for the Hollywood studio MGM. The Andrews Sisters Story". 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 book was I think an attempt of my dad to come to grips with some things in his life. I went into his office, and my agents were there, and his lawyers were there, and I said, How do you do? I took a letter from my purpose. Its not heavy. He took one more step and then fell dead. The nickname "Der Bingle" was common among Crosby's German listeners and came to be used by his English-speaking fans. [111] However, after the book was published, Lindsay addressed the abuse claims and what the media had made out of them: He was a good father. This was across the street from Paramount, a little place called Lucys.We only ever had romantic dates. May Going My Way is released, in which Bing takes on his most famous role as Father OMalley. After a long run in New York, he went back to Hollywood to film The Big Broadcast. #IHeartHollywood, Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly's Love Affair. ABC offered Crosby $30,000 per week to produce a recorded show every Wednesday that would be sponsored by Philco. [97], Crosby reportedly had an alcohol problem between the late 1920s and early 1930s, but he got a handle on his drinking in 1931. By the time we married, I realized I could survive without him, and he realized he didnt want to survive without me. records Where the Blue of the Night for first time, which becomes his theme song. One each for radio, recording, and motion pictures. She also appeared in the 1989 film adaptation of Stephen King's novel Pet Sematary. Dec. They each earned $75 a week. Prigozy, Ruth, and Walter Raubicheck, eds. But the networks and sponsors were adamantly opposed. Whatever you want. Crosby was a fan of thoroughbred horse racing and bought his first racehorse in 1935. The filmThe Star Maker is released. However, the document also clearly indicates that at their meetings a third person, on most instances Caulfield's mother, was present. Sept. Bing films his final Christmas show, which features Bings family and David Bowie. 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. They made one film appearance together in Road to Rio singing "You Don't Have to Know the Language", and sang together on the radio throughout the 1940s and 1950s. In 1923, Crosby was invited to join a new band composed of high-school students a few years younger than himself. The Met was built in 1915. The document reveals that during that time Crosby was indeed taking Joan Caulfield out to dinner, visited theaters and opera houses with her and that Caulfield and a person in her company entered the Waldorf Hotel where Crosby was staying. 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. Murdo MacKenzie of Bing Crosby Enterprises had seen a demonstration of the German Magnetophon in June 1947the same device that Jack Mullin had brought back from Radio Frankfurt with 50 reels of tape, at the end of the war. They had finished the eighteen holes of golf, and Bing won ten dollars with his pro. 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. Before they went to the place where they would be shooting, they played a round of golf. A number of Argentine-bred horses were purchased and shipped to race in the United States. Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): You had a role in 1959s Anatomy of a Murder, groundbreaking during that time because it was one of the first films to address sex and rape in fairly graphic terms. There have been disputes between Crosby's two families beginning in the late 1990s. The church was really very helpful at that time. 2000. 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. Giddins, Gary (2002). 87 years (November 25, 1933) Kathryn Crosby/Age Crosby asked Harry Cohn, but Cohn had no desire to pay for the flight or to meet Armstrong's "crude, mob-linked but devoted manager, Joe Glaser". The advantage was editing. The film features the song Swinging on a Star, by Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke, which reaches Number 1 and wins an Academy Award for Best Song. Through her aunt, Kathryn arranged to marry Bing in Las Vegas. Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Gary accused his father of horrible physical abuse in a memoirreleased after Bing's death, and there appeared to be a lot of turmoil in his firstmarriage and with their four sons. And then I asked if he liked race horses. The "telefilms" were syndicated to individual television stations. [27], Crosby graduated from Gonzaga High School in 1920 and enrolled at Gonzaga University. In his autobiography Don't Shoot, It's Only Me! Gary said to me before I read it, "It's not the same book I wrote."[112]. In autumn 1977 he was here making his fi nal album Seasons, a Christmas television special that featured his unlikely duet The Little Drummer Boy with David Bowie, and a session for the BBC.There were also concerts, including two weeks at the London Palladium.We sang as a family, with the children and also with Rosemary Clooney, with whom he sang lots of wonderful duets, says Kathryn.We visited friends and then he went off to Spain with pals to shoot some grouse. As I passed a Hindu sitting on the corner of a street, I heard something surprisingly familiar. Aug. Signs contract with Philco Radio Corporation. All the other artists signed to Decca after Bing did. [11] In 1963, Crosby received the first Grammy Global Achievement Award. 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