After The Syncopation Idea closed, they worked in the Will Morrissey Music Hall Revue. His parents were Harry Lowe Crosby[22] (18701950), a bookkeeper, and Catherine Helen "Kate" (ne Harrigan; 18731964). [122] His first performance after the accident was his last American concert, on August 16, 1977, the day Elvis Presley died, at the Concord Pavilion in Concord, California. [citation needed]. A "Battle of the Baritones" with singer Russ Columbo proved short-lived, replaced with the slogan "Bing Was King". Impulsively in 1957, he married Kathryn while Inger later found out about it on the news. Dec. 7 The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. [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. Mar. 1969 [112], Dennis Crosby reportedly "said his older brother (Gary) was the most severely treated of the four boys. By the time we married, I realized I could survive without him, and he realized he didnt want to survive without me. [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. [87][88] The restored broadcast was shown on MLB Network in December 2010. 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). Bing Crosby and family attend a Benefit Party for Fordham Prep at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center circa 1976 in New York City. They have all reportedly described their father as loving and kind. There was a good piano player there, so they would do some songs and dances and remarks from the New York vaudeville show. The Palm Springs area was a . After the end of the last race, theyd go up and have dinner together. 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. Sept. Bing films his final Christmas show, which features Bings family and David Bowie. [3]:24[26], In 1917, Crosby took a summer job as property boy at Spokane's Auditorium, where he witnessed some of the acts of the day, including Al Jolson, who held him spellbound with ad-libbing and parodies of Hawaiian songs. Around the same time, Crosby talked to his mother about his intentions and she protested. Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Rosemary Clooney was one of his best friends? Mar. In the mid-1970s, she hosted The Kathryn Crosby Show, a 30-minute local talk-show on KPIX-TV in San Francisco. Jan. Dinah with the Mills Brothers reaches Number 1. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Harry said, I wouldve killed to get to go with Louis Armstrong to Australia, which was an experience that Bing gave to Gary. Obviously, Grace never married Bing and she would ultimately call off her engagement to Oleg when she met Monaco's Prince Rainier in 1955. Crosby also ensured behind the scenes that Armstrong received equal billing with his white co-stars. He has been inducted into the halls of fame for both radio and popular music. In the 1949 Disney animated film The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Crosby provided the narration and song vocals for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow segment. [75][76][77] He used his clout, both professionally and financially, for innovations in audio. We heart movies. Husband Bing appeared as a guest occasionally. Bing is awarded the DeSmet Medal at Gonzaga University. "Bing was born on May 3, 1903. Amateur in 1981 at age 19, becoming the youngest winner in the history of that event at the time. Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Mrs. Crosby, had Bing been sick, or was his death a surprise? [14] He was also known for his collaborations with his friend Bob Hope, starring in the Road to films from 1940 to 1962. The Fireside Theater (1950) sponsored by Procter & Gamble, was his first television production. 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. He learned how to pronounce German from written scripts and read propaganda broadcasts intended for German forces. Oct. Nathaniel Patrick Crosby, Bings last son and third child with Kathryn, is born. Tired of Dixie's drinking, he even asked her for a divorce in January 1941. Farben magnetic tape that Mullin had found at a radio station at Bad Nauheim near Frankfurt while working for the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Kathryn Crosby: It is a wonderful time for me. The company produced two ABC medical dramas, Ben Casey (19611966) and Breaking Point (19631964), the popular Hogan's Heroes (19651971) military comedy on CBS, as well as the lesser-known show Slattery's People (19641965). Today they wouldn't seem very off-color, but things were different on radio then. Bing Crosby, wife Kathryn Crosby and family photographed with a piece of artwork circa 1977 in New York City. [62] The single "White Christmas" sold over 50 million copies according to Guinness World Records. I cant keep you out. So I was baptized and graduated from school, and then went to marry Bing in the same week. Widow Kathryn Crosby dabbled in local theater productions intermittently and appeared in television tributes to her late husband. She was born in Houston, Texas in 1933 and appeared on stage from age 3. 1966 [85] The Bing Crosby Breeders' Cup Handicap at Del Mar Racetrack is named in his honor. Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): You remarried in 2000? 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. That ended when he met actress Kathryn Grant (nee Olive Kathryn Grandstaff) a onetime beauty contest winner from Texas. I came back to see the man playing one of those old Vitrolas, like those of RCA with the horn speaker. Dispute arose between the two families and was settled in 1999. And then I asked if he liked race horses. 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. Mar. Bing was also a giving donor to the city's Gonzaga University . The Crosby family moves from Tacoma to Spokane, Washington. Kathryn Crosby: Yes. Both Bing and wife Kathryn Grant thought he had lung cancer. Nov. "Brother Can You Spare. He loved strong women. [118] They were instead receiving several thousand dollars per month from a trust left in 1952 by their mother, Dixie Lee. 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. May Bing signs a two-year deal with Paramount, which calls for two pictures a year. Crosby invested $50,000 in Ampex with the intent to produce more machines. 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. The comments made by FBI investigators in the memos discredited the claims made in the letters. Spring/Early Summer The Rhythm Boys disband. We heart Beverly Hills. Sept. 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. 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. I had a great adventure. They were married Oct. 24, 1957 in Las Vegas. Are the holidays difficult for you? It was something that one of his boys had done, and it was really frightening. 87 years (November 25, 1933) Kathryn Crosby/Age Getting to know Paramount Pictures was quite amazing. Bing said, Yeah. Dolores and I became very good friends at that time, and I traveled all over Europe with her while Bing and Bob were working. Ten of the top 50 songs of 1931 included Crosby with others or as a solo act. 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. Oct. It was either he was going to have to get an operation, or he was going to die in three days. Its a rolling cast that you do. [65], He received 23 gold and platinum records, according to the book Million Selling Records. The scheduling could now be done at the star's convenience. 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. Bing and I drive a block and a half to the Catholic Church, and we were married there. [2] He made over 70 feature films and recorded more than 1,600 songs. The Crosby family became the focus of his Christmas. Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): In the documentary, it does say that Bob and Bing seldom or never socialized together. Runner-up to Miss Texas 1952. In 2006, Crosby's niece through his sister Mary Rose, Carolyn Schneider, published the laudatory book Me and Uncle Bing. Before they went to the place where they would be shooting, they played a round of golf. She cemented her star status the following year as Princess Parisa in 1958s special effects-laden The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad. He was playing golf in Spain and won the match. Then a year and a half later, the golden circle of talented young performers was let go, and I went right to Columbia Pictures. [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". 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. A year later, the same kind of thing happened. They got enormous laughs, which just went on and on. Husband Bing appeared as a guest occasionally. They didnt like delivering babies on airplanes back then. [64] His most popular film, White Christmas, grossed $30 million in 1954 ($303 million in current value). During the Golden Age of Radio, performers had to create their shows live, sometimes even redoing the program a second time for the West Coast time zone. Reel #: 1372 TC In: 010816 TC Out: 010903This clip is available for licensing without time code and logo - To inquire about licensing email us at Myfootage@g. [54], During the early portion of his solo career (about 19311934), Crosby's emotional, often pleading style of crooning was popular. In 1906, his family moved to Spokane in Eastern Washington state, where he was raised. Bing said that wed have to rehearse there to go to Broadway. Aug.-Oct. Bing is in production for the film Going My Way. We had a twelve-grade schoolhouse, and anytime there was a senior high school play, and they needed a child, I was elected. Copyright document.write(new Date().getFullYear()) Bing asked, 'Why?' 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. [109] In an interview with People magazine, Phillip stated that "we never got an extra whack or a cuff we didn't deserve".[109]. After the war, the event resumed play in 1947 on golf courses in Pebble Beach, where it has been played ever since. He then persuaded ABC to allow him to tape his shows. 1968 Excerpts can be seen in American Masters Bing Crosby Rediscovered. He always believed he was born on May 2, 1904. Crosby started the tape recorder revolution in America. The additional voice meant they could be heard more easily in large New York theaters. They joined the Gus Arnheim Orchestra, performing nightly in the Coconut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel. 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. 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). Stanley, Bob, Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop Music, Pegasus Books, 2022, pg 220, Grudens, 2002, p. 236. [50] It was on this special that he recorded a duet of "The Little Drummer Boy" and "Peace on Earth" with rock musician David Bowie. Thursday, 2nd March 2023See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, order back issues and use the historic Daily Express newspaper archive. Kathryn Crosby: It was a terrible surprise, but he had, of course, been sick. [90], Crosby also was a keen fisherman. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the express written consent of the publisher. records Where the Blue of the Night for first time, which becomes his theme song. [123], In September, Crosby, his family and singer Rosemary Clooney began a concert tour of Britain that included two weeks at the London Palladium. 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. bing! A number of Argentine-bred horses were purchased and shipped to race in the United States. Gary hated his brothers, Phillip and Dennis, the twins, and Lindsay who was a wonderful young man. What was his personality like behind closed doors? Sept. Mary Frances Crosby, Bings first daughter and second child with Kathryn, is born. This new sound led to the popular epithet crooner. Crosby wrote or co-wrote lyrics to 22 songs. 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. Born November 25, 1933, actress and singer Kathryn Crosby performed in 1950s films under the stage names Kathryn Grant and Kathryn Grandstaff. They tour with Paul Whiteman and get their first hit with Mississippi Mud.. The song appeared in his films Holiday Inn (1942), anda decade laterin White Christmas (1954). June Bings autobiography, Call Me Lucky, is published. Apr. Some of Bing Crosbys fans may not know that you are also an actor. Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Did you and Bing raise your children in the Catholic faith? Out of Nowhere becomes Bings first solo Number 1hit. The couple had three children, Harry, Mary Frances, and Nathaniel. [38] Hired for $150 a week in 1926, they debuted with Whiteman on December 6 at the Tivoli Theatre in Chicago. All four sons from his first marriage have passed away. 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. 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. [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. I had a dinner party one night and invited Bob and his wife Dolores, Kathryn recalls. 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