Kathryn Crosby, a big-screen actress in the 1950s who became the second wife of Hollywood legend Bing Crosby and who also hosted a popular morning talk show on KPIX in San Francisco in the 1970s, has died. She was 90. 

Crosby died Sept. 20 in the Bay Area, surrounded by her family at her home in Hillsborough. 

In the mid-1970s, staying close to her family’s Peninsula home, she hosted “The Kathryn Crosby Show”, a morning talk show on KPIX. Popular for its time, Crosby’s show preceded the station’s long-running “People Are Talking”. 

In the 1950s, she starred in such films as “The 7th Voyage of Sinbad” and “Anatomy of a Murder” before curtailing her acting career to marry Bing Crosby. She and Crosby wed in a Las Vegas church in 1957. She was 23, he was 54.

Kathryn Crosby appeared often with her husband and their three children on Christmas TV specials and on various variety shows, and in the 1970s, they appeared regularly in Minute Maid orange juice commercials. 

Bing Crosby was 74 when he died in Spain in 1977 from a heart attack after playing golf.

Kathryn Crosby is survived by her three children, including actress Mary Crosby, who starred on TV’s “Dallas” during the “Who Shot JR?” storyline in the early 1980s. 

The San Francisco/Northern California Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences wishes to extend its heartfelt condolences to the Crosby family for their loss.

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