Oct. 14 Bing Crosby dies of heart attack after a good game of golf at a course outside Madrid, Spain. During World War II, Crosby made live appearances before American troops who had been fighting in the European Theater. Bing Crosby and Bob Hope on the Road to Singapore (1940) film lot, between scenes. Impulsively in 1957, he married Kathryn while Inger later found out about it on the news. 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. Jack Mullin: The man and his Machines. 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] According to Barrios, Crosby was in good spirits throughout the day, and was photographed several times during the round. Runner-up to Miss Texas 1952. [42] Before the end of the year, he signed[clarification needed] with both Brunswick Records and CBS Radio. . 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. [107], While acknowledging that corporal punishments took place, there were reports of all of Gary's immediate siblings distancing themselves from the abuse claims, either in public or in private. [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. He loved to play. Whatever you want. I had a very little role in that, but I got to see Jimmy Stewart for the first time, and Grace Kelly had a wonderful role. [60] Sources differ regarding the number of copies he sold: 300 million[61] or even 500 million. Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): That was a very interesting film noir also. The advantage was editing. Songs co-written by Crosby include: Four performances by Bing Crosby have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least 25 years old and that have "qualitative or historical significance". Despite being a Catholic, Crosby was seriously considering divorce in order to marry Caulfield. They would start the Mr. Harry Crosby and Nathaniel Crosby, and of actress Mary Crosby. "Sail Away from Norway" (1977) Crosby wrote lyrics to go with a traditional song. Al and Miles Rinker (brothers of singer Mildred Bailey), James Heaton, Claire Pritchard and Robert Pritchard, along with drummer Crosby, formed the Musicaladers,[5] who performed at dances both for high school students and club-goers. Are the holidays difficult for you? June The film Stagecoach is released, marking Bings last starring role in a film. We just sat and drank tea. After pointing out pieces she treasures -- from heirloom furnishings purchased from the William Randolph Hearst collection to the Oscar won by her late husband, Bing, in 1944 -- Kathryn. 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. Bing Crosby and family attend a Benefit Party for Fordham Prep at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center circa 1976 in New York City. But it just didnt work because I was very young so I found something more appropriate.Crosby was nominated for best actor as an alcoholic singer in The Country Girl. 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. We want to get some quail and some very special southern dishes. [3]:8. Thursday, 2nd March 2023See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, order back issues and use the historic Daily Express newspaper archive. 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. Jack Kapp, Bings music producer, dies at 47 from a cerebral hemorrhage. Bing and Bob started off together in early vaudeville. When they appeared solo, Crosby and Hope frequently made note of the other in a comically insulting fashion. I hope it clears up a lot of the old lies and rumors. Did you know about those relationship problems? But it made no difference at all because I was kind of precocious. We couldn't use the jokes, but Bill asked us to save the laughs. It was very frightening to know which one they were going to operate on because you have to have one functioning kidney when youre operating on the other. They each earned $75 a week. [8] In 1948, American polls declared him the "most admired man alive", ahead of Jackie Robinson and Pope Pius XII. His parents were Harry Lowe Crosby[22] (18701950), a bookkeeper, and Catherine Helen "Kate" (ne Harrigan; 18731964). Crosby credited Kapp for choosing hit songs, working with many other musicians, and most important, diversifying his repertoire into several styles and genres. Apr. A holiday perennial, the song was repeatedly re-released by Decca, charting another sixteen times. I said, What? Bing had decided to do a show to help a foundation sponsoring music scholarships for young people. 3. Ten of the top 50 songs of 1931 included Crosby with others or as a solo act. There was a lovely man called Barney Dean, and he was called a gagman. Husband Bing appeared as a guest occasionally. [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. I think there was some father-son stuff that everyone has. Thus the laugh-track was born. A pert, vivacious and absolutely stunning brunette, the former Kathryn Grant (nee Olive Kathryn Grandstaff) is now known publicly as Kathryn Crosby. No. All that matters to him is the words, and that's the only thing that ought to for you, too. But the networks and sponsors were adamantly opposed. Theres a priest friend of mine up there whos going to perform the service. The reporters ran off. 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]. We heart Beverly Hills. We were married at that time because I was going to have to nurse him in the hospital, and thats a public appearance. [106] This house served as a setting for some of the family's Minute Maid orange juice television commercials. If we didn't, we got punished. Oct. Crosby influenced the development of the post World War II recording industry. 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. Crosby married Dixie Lee in September 1930. [133], In 2006, the former Metropolitan Theater of Performing Arts ('The Met') in Spokane, Washington, was renamed to The Bing Crosby Theater.[134]. I don't think he did anything wrong. I had a dinner party one night and invited Bob and his wife Dolores, Kathryn recalls. [78], With Frank Sinatra, Crosby was one of the principal backers for the United Western Recorders studio complex in Los Angeles.[79]. We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. 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. An Afternoon with Jack Mullin. The Mutual Network, on the other hand, pre-recorded some of its programs as early as 1938 for The Shadow with Orson Welles. [71], Throughout Europe and Russia, Crosby was also known as "Der Bingle", a pseudonym coined in 1944 by Bob Musel, an American journalist based in London, after Crosby had recorded three 15-minute programs with Jack Russin for broadcast to Germany from ABSIE. Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Birmingham, Alabama. In that way, we could take out jokes, gags, or situations that didn't play well and finish with only the prime meat of the show; the solid stuff that played big. I knew when I met Bing that every woman in the world loved him, and every man in the world wanted to go hunting with him and wanted to be his buddy or play golf with him like Bob did. Dec. 7 The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (1990), Bob Hope wrote, "Dear old Bing, as we called him, the Economy-sized Sinatra. The Hollywood veteran and widow of Bing Crosby will perform some of those classic tunes when she . Why dont we write some movies for them? Dolores thought that was pretty funny, and everybody thought it would be a good idea. ABC offered Crosby $30,000 per week to produce a recorded show every Wednesday that would be sponsored by Philco. 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. He loved to play. It was the largest single bank failure in the countrys history. She was his very dearest friend, and they sang so perfectly together. In his autobiography Don't Shoot, It's Only Me! We lived with them when Bing was doing Road to Hong Kong. After it began broadcasting, the station was sold within a year to Northern Pacific Radio and Television Corporation. In 1957, he married Kathryn Grant, a young actress and singer he had met on the Paramount lot. Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Did you and Bing raise your children in the Catholic faith? She was born in Houston, Texas in 1933 and appeared on stage from age 3. All four sons from his first marriage have passed away. We heart books. His first commercial sponsor on radio was Cremo Cigars and his fame spread nationwide. I think it all got a little out of hand. More info. She confided to me that she desperately wanted to marry Bing Crosby. 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. Bing asked, Why? Bob Said, Fish dont applaud. Bob and Bing spent an hour a day on the phone. "Blondell: "I'm surprised they didn't call you "Killer" Crosby! [30] Gonzaga University houses a large collection of photographs, correspondence, and other material related to Crosby.[31]. He then persuaded ABC to allow him to tape his shows. Oct. Nathaniel Patrick Crosby, Bings last son and third child with Kathryn, is born. [7] Yank magazine said that he was "the person who had done the most for the morale of overseas servicemen" during World War II. Dec. Film Exhibitors name Bing the top box office star of the year, the first of five consecutive years. I can't pinpoint it. Im terribly proud, says Kathryn, his champion down the years. He became the first performer to prerecord his radio shows and master his commercial recordings onto magnetic tape. May The film Road to Hong Kong is released. Here is a breakdown of each of Crosby's children and his marriage to their mothers. In the mid-1970s, she hosted The Kathryn Crosby Show, a 30-minute local talk-show on KPIX-TV in San Francisco. Kathryn Crosby: No. bing! Pictured here is the lovely Mary Frances Crosby; the only daughter of Bing Crosby, from his second . Sept. FilmHere Comes the Groom is released, in which Bing is directed by Frank Capra and co-stars with Jane Wyman. The California Court of Appeal reversed, however, holding that the 1999 settlement barred the claim. [11] In 1963, Crosby received the first Grammy Global Achievement Award. At the end of the game, Bings friend, Cesar de Zulueta asked him, How do you feel? Bing said, Im fine. [59] In 1960 Crosby was honored as "First Citizen of Record Industry" based on having sold 200 million discs. 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. Nathaniel Crosby, Crosby's younger son from his second marriage, is a former high-level golfer who won the U.S. 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. 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