[81] NAFI Corporation and Crosby purchased television station KPTV in Portland, Oregon, for $4 million on September 1, 1959. Bing Crosby and Bob Hope on the Road to Singapore (1940) film lot, between scenes. Bing and Bob started off together in early vaudeville. The Mutual Network, on the other hand, pre-recorded some of its programs as early as 1938 for The Shadow with Orson Welles. The filmRoad to Singapore is released, the first in a series of Road pictures with Bob Hope which became the highest grossing franchise until the James Bond films. Where are you from? From 1931 to 1954, the star dominated record sales, radio ratings, and motion picture grosses. Some of Bing Crosbys fans may not know that you are also an actor. #IHeartHollywood, Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly's Love Affair. June 6 D-Day: The Allies invade Normandy, France. [64] His most popular film, White Christmas, grossed $30 million in 1954 ($303 million in current value). and helped morale of the American public. The filmEast Side of Heaven is released. 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. We shot the movie in Ishpeming, Michigan. Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Phil Harris, and also Crosby were masters at this, and the networks weren't about to give it up easily. By the time we married, I realized I could survive without him, and he realized he didnt want to survive without me. Mrs. Crosby, how would you describe your married relationship with Bing? Dec. Bing performs with Bob Hope at the Capitol Theatre in New York City. [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. 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. Husband Bing appeared as a guest occasionally. After a threat of divorce in March 1931, he applied himself to his career. After the end of the last race, theyd go up and have dinner together. 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. Bob and Bing spent an hour a day on the phone. In 1929, the Rhythm Boys appeared in the film King of Jazz with Whiteman, but Crosby's growing dissatisfaction with Whiteman led to the Rhythm Boys leaving his organization. Gary said to me before I read it, "It's not the same book I wrote."[112]. They joined the Gus Arnheim Orchestra, performing nightly in the Coconut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel. A nearby bridge carrying U.S. Route 158 over the Yadkin River is named for Kathryn Crosby. They did a very fine surgery on him and repaired all his valves. [2] He made over 70 feature films and recorded more than 1,600 songs. [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 were just so funny. [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). About Kathryn Grant is a 88 year old American Actress. Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947) is based on Lee's life. I certainly never witnessed anything between him and his father. Im terribly proud, says Kathryn, his champion down the years. He did make up for it at the end of the week by catching a number of sea trout. Kathryn Crosby: He loved me, and I knew it. bing! Jack Kapp, Bings music producer, dies at 47 from a cerebral hemorrhage. He has achieved greater popularity, made more money, attracted vaster audiences than any other entertainer in history. Stay Tuned: A Concise History of American broadcasting (2nd ed.). Getting to know Paramount Pictures was quite amazing. 2000. His biggest best seller is "White Christmas" 2,000,000 impressions of which have been sold in the U.S. and 250,000 in Great Britain. Kathryn Crosby: It was a terrible surprise, but he had, of course, been sick. 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. Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): As a movie buff, I loved seeing clips from the old films. [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". There were so many experiences he gave his first boys. He was not out to be vicious, to beat children for his kicks. The filmJust For You is released, starring Bing, Jane Wyman and the young Natalie Wood. We had a wonderful time together. They didnt like delivering babies on airplanes back then. [121], Following his recovery from a life-threatening fungal infection in his right lung in January 1974, Crosby emerged from semi-retirement to start a new spate of albums and concerts. Later that year, according to Kathryn, Bing apologized to Kathryn for his fling with the future princess. Runner-up to Miss Texas 1952. It was one of the magnetic tape recorders that BASF and AEG had built in Germany starting in 1935. 'He got the first licking, and we got the second.'"[113]. Daughter: Mary Frances September 14, 1959
1. Kathryn Crosby: It is a wonderful time for me. At the end of the 20th century, TV Guide listed the Crosby-Bowie duet one of the 25 most memorable musical moments of 20th-century television. Bing signs a deal with director Mack Sennett to appear in a series of short comedic films, and signs his first solo contract, with Brunswick Records. [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. The "telefilms" were syndicated to individual television stations. She, too, was in love with an older married man who was quite as famous as Gary [Cooper]. June Just One more Chance reaches Number 1. [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. 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. June The film Robin and the 7 Hoods is released, with Bing starring alongside Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. Sept. The Bing Crosby Show sitcom premieres on CBS. At his death in 1977 at age 73, he left his money in a blind trust, which none of the sons--whose youthful. Why Did People In Old Hollywood Talk Funny. Kathryn Crosby: Rear Window was shot when I was first at Paramount Pictures. His first son Gary was born in 1933 with twin boys following in 1934. The family is coming here this Christmas. Crosby became the star attraction of the Rhythm Boys. p. 24. Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): I understand you recently had a birthday on November 25, so happy belated! However, the addition of pianist and aspiring songwriter Harry Barris made the difference, and The Rhythm Boys were born. | 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? His last TV appearance was a Christmas special, Merrie Olde Christmas, taped in London in September 1977 and aired weeks after his death. Bing Crosby married actress Kathryn Grant in 1957 and raised a second family. 2. [87][88] The restored broadcast was shown on MLB Network in December 2010. A holiday perennial, the song was repeatedly re-released by Decca, charting another sixteen times. [59] In 1960 Crosby was honored as "First Citizen of Record Industry" based on having sold 200 million discs. He had a great tolerance for people. 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). Nov. Dont Fence Me In w/ The Andrews Sisters reaches Number 1. [39], Success with Whiteman was followed by disaster when they reached New York. Hes the fourth of seven children. I just kept having children.They had three: Mary, who became an actress and found fame as Kristin Shepard, the woman responsible for shooting JR in Dallas; Nathaniel, who became a golfer and won the 1981 US Amateur Championship; and Harry, who appeared in the horror movie Friday The 13th but went on to become an investment banker. In 1928 he had his first number one hit, a jazz-influenced rendition of "Ol' Man River". Then the children did it with me, and we had a good time. When the electric power failed during his performance, he continued singing without amplification. We heart influencers and interesting people. Sept. By 1936, he replaced his former boss, Paul Whiteman, as host of the weekly NBC radio program Kraft Music Hall, where he remained for the next ten years. Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Birmingham, Alabama. Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): And then came Bing , Kathryn Crosby: I had lots of experiences all this time, and I met Bing Crosby. [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. [66] Crosby charted 23 Billboard hits from 47 recorded songs with the Andrews Sisters, whose Decca record sales were second only to Crosby's throughout the 1940s. 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. Narrated by Stanley Tucci, the film features new interviews with all surviving members of Crosbys immediate family: wife Kathryn, daughter Mary and sons Harry and Nathaniel. The family created an official website[131] on October 14, 2007, the 30th anniversary of Crosby's death. Amateur champion in golf). Born November 25, 1933, actress and singer Kathryn Crosby performed in 1950s films under the stage names Kathryn Grant and Kathryn Grandstaff. The couple had three children, Harry, Mary Frances, and Nathaniel. No. In 1937, he became a founding partner of the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club and a member of its board of directors. Bob Said, 'Fish dont applaud.' Bing receives the Cecil B. DeMille Golden Globe award from the Hollywood Foreign Press. He and Bing had a long discussion about ten pound test and all of that. How old was Bing Crosby when he married Kathryn Grant? 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. In 1936, Crosby exercised an option in his Paramount contract to regularly star in an out-of-house film. 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. Sterling, C. H., & Kittross, J. M. (1990). I like horses. I didnt know he had built Del Mar racetrack (laughs). Prigozy, Ruth, and Walter Raubicheck, eds. We just sat and drank tea. Dec. Bing signs new contract with Paramount for nine films in three years for around $175,000 per film. An Afternoon with Jack Mullin. [67], In 1962, Crosby was given the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): That was a very interesting film noir also. Films Road to Rio, a film is financed by Crosby, Hope and Paramount. NTSC VHS tape, 1989 AES. He didnt always say it, but he always showed it. 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. (The live production of radio shows was also reinforced by the musicians' union and ASCAP, which wanted to ensure continued work for their members.) The Fanchon and Marco Time Agency hired them for thirteen weeks for the revue The Syncopation Idea starting at the Boulevard Theater in Los Angeles and then on the Loew's circuit. 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. He matured as a performer and was in demand as a solo singer.[40]. [28] As a freshman, he played on the university's baseball team. According to the story, Bing died at the age of 74 on a golf course in Spain. In his autobiography Don't Shoot, It's Only Me! I Surrender, Dear, Bings first appearance in a Mack Sennett short film, is released. It was either he was going to have to get an operation, or he was going to die in three days. A friend nicknames Harry Bingo, later changed to Bing, for his love of an illustrated parody newspaper called The Bingville Bugle.. After seeing a demonstration of a German broadcast quality reel-to-reel tape recorder brought to the United States by John T. Mullin, he invested $50,000 in the California electronics company Ampex to build copies. In 1999, the parties settled for approximately $1.5 million. Crosby presents the school with the nations first Microfilm Research Center. Nov. "Brother Can You Spare. Crosby invested $50,000 in Ampex with the intent to produce more machines. I was so innocent, just out from Texas. Harry Crosby is an investment banker who occasionally makes singing appearances. 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. [125] At about 6:30 pm, as Crosby and his party headed back to the clubhouse, Crosby said, "That was a great game of golf, fellas. Mar. bing!, and I would let him have it again, and then as his friends came to his rescue, shooting as they came, I would shout bing! I like baseball a lot. I didnt know he owned the Pirates. 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. After The Syncopation Idea closed, they worked in the Will Morrissey Music Hall Revue. 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. 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. June Bings autobiography, Call Me Lucky, is published. All that matters to him is the words, and that's the only thing that ought to for you, too. Hammar, Peter. If I ever felt strongly enough about something to ask him, he always did it. 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". At his death in 1977 at age 73, he left his money in a blind trust, which none of the sons-whose youthful escapades were well documented by the news media-could touch until age 65. [72], According to Shoshana Klebanoff, Crosby became one of the richest men in the history of show business. Bob was the emcee for a vaudeville show, and Bing was singing, and they started playing with each other on the stage. They went to Ohio for the national convention of baseball owners. As far as I know [Gary] wrote it because it was about himself and what he felt his life was about. The man was listening to Bing Crosby sing, "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive". Sept. Mary Frances Crosby, Bings first daughter and second child with Kathryn, is born. Are the holidays difficult for you? Two years later she became Bing Crosby's second wife, being more than thirty years his junior. [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]. Widow Kathryn Crosby dabbled in local theater productions intermittently and appeared in television tributes to her late husband. "[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. He returned to broadcasting for the last 13 weeks of the 19451946 season. 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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. 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. The comments made by FBI investigators in the memos discredited the claims made in the letters. [92] After his wife died, Crosby had relationships with model Pat Sheehan (who married his son Dennis in 1958) and actresses Inger Stevens and Grace Kelly before marrying actress Kathryn Grant, who converted to Catholicism, in 1957. Christmas is very much a part of my life. The song Trade Winds reaches #1. For fifteen years (1934, 1937, 1940, 19431954), Crosby was among the top ten acts in box-office sales, and for five of those years (19441948) he topped the world. 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. Then a year and a half later, the golden circle of talented young performers was let go, and I went right to Columbia Pictures. Then were going down to New Orleans where my granddaughter, Claire, who is studying to be a chef, is interning with chef John Folse at the Sonesta Hotel, and were going to have a birthday dinner there in May. ", Smith, Anthony B. 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]. Everyone was laughing hysterically.Even when he was in his 70s Crosby continued with his busy schedule and was regularly in Britain, recording and performing. Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): You continued your acting career after you and Bing married? IHeartHollywood.com is an online magazine about all thing "Hollywood." They tour with Paul Whiteman and get their first hit with Mississippi Mud.. A number of Argentine-bred horses were purchased and shipped to race in the United States. Born November 25, 1933, actress and singer Kathryn Crosby performed in 1950s films under the stage names Kathryn Grant and Kathryn Grandstaff. Crosby wrote or co-wrote lyrics to 22 songs. Billboard magazine used different methodologies during his career. Collins was used in place of their longtime partner Dorothy Lamour, whom Crosby felt was getting too old for the role, though Hope refused to do the film without her, and she instead made a lengthy and elaborate cameo appearance. Kathryn Grant and Bing Crosby were married for 19 years before Bing Crosby died, leaving behind his partner and 3 children. I came back to Austin and finished up my degree and took my Inquiry classes for six weeks. 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. [106] This house served as a setting for some of the family's Minute Maid orange juice television commercials. He became the first performer to prerecord his radio shows and master his commercial recordings onto magnetic tape. Thats what started the Road shows. Jan. Bing Crosby Enterprises and ABC invest in Ampex machines, revolutionizing the radio industry. However, the document also clearly indicates that at their meetings a third person, on most instances Caulfield's mother, was present. They got enormous laughs, which just went on and on. Written by Melissa Parker, Posted in Interviews Actors, Image attributed to Bing Crosby Enterprises. The quartet's Top-10 Billboard hits from 1943 to 1945 include "The Vict'ry Polka", "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Town of Berlin (When the Yanks Go Marching In)", and "Is You Is or Is You Ain't (Ma' Baby?)" In 1960, he starred in High Time, a collegiate comedy with Fabian Forte and Tuesday Weld that predicted the emerging gap between him and the new younger generation of musicians and actors who had begun their careers after World War II. She was born in Houston, Texas in 1933 and appeared on stage from age 3. He was very happy with my ignorance and then we discovered the world togetherKathryn had actually auditioned for a role in White Christmas. 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. The first multimedia star, he was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century worldwide. bing! The U.S enters World War II the next day on December 8, 1941. 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. Theres a priest friend of mine up there whos going to perform the service. The reporters ran off. Last year, I did a cabaret in New York out on the island to benefit a school, and I sang several songs. I hope it clears up a lot of the old lies and rumors. Sept. Bing films his final Christmas show, which features Bings family and David Bowie. "[45] "In all, 60,000,000 Crosby discs have been marketed since he made his first record in 1931. 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. Oct. 24 The stock market crashes on Black Thursday.. Well print that. He later described Jolson's delivery as "electric". Their longest marriage was 22 years to Dixie Lee. The Binglin Stable partnership came to an end in 1953 as a result of a liquidation of assets by Crosby, who needed to raise enough funds to pay the hefty federal and state inheritance taxes on his deceased wife's estate. While the seven movies in the series provided adventure, laughs, romance and music they also showcased the comic chemistry between Crosby and Bob Hope to perfection. We had our differences, but we were raised to respect our parents, to do what they said. We heart all thing in the Entertainment field. Crosby has been associated with the Christmas season since Irving Berlin's musical film Holiday Inn, in which he starred and famously sang "White Christmas". 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. He was a part owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates. 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