Photo Coverage: Kathryn Crosby Performs LIFE WITH BING

Kathryn Crosby's LIFE WITH BING with Musical Direction by Edward Sayegh played last week at Cabaret at the Castle. In the show, Crosby performs classic songs of stage and screen, and shares anecdotes about the famous and their lives during Hollywood and Broadway's golden era. BroadwayWorld brings you a sneak peek below!

Mrs. Crosby took center stage and regaled the patrons with stories and songs that made she and her contemporaries famous. The former Kathryn Grant, known publicly as Kathryn Crosby, was born in the 'Deep South' and appeared on stage from the age of 3. 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. The fresh-faced hopeful soon rose up through the standard starlet ranks from unbilled parts to chipper sis types and decorative love interests alongside filmdom's top male stars. She appeared opposite Richard Kiley in The Phenix City Story (1955), Tony Curtis in Mister Cory (1957), Jack Lemmon in Operation Mad Ball (1957), James Stewart in Anatomy of a Murder (1959) and Victor Mature in The Big Circus (1959), among others. 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. However, Kathryn was unchallenged as an actress and retired after marrying singer Bing Crosby in 1957. They had three children, including actress Mary Crosby of 'Dallas' fame. She, along with her children, dutifully appeared opposite her husband singing and lightly joking in his many popular Christmas-special presentations and even hosted some syndicated TV series. 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 most recently, STATE FAIR in 1996. In addition to authoring two sets of memoirs ('Bing and Other Things' and 'My Life with Bing'), Kathryn now offers lucky patrons a glimpse into a life filled with all the glittering Hollywood glamor that many American's dream.

Photo Credit: Brian Putnam