Bing Crosby's daughter talks about the Christmas crooner
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Bing Crosby is the ultimate Christmas crooner and his defining hit 'White Christmas' is not only an anthem of the festive season, it’s also the world’s best-selling single.
Sky's Kay Burley sat down with Bing's daughter Mary who said it was his work with the troops, not the Christmas number ones, which made her dad most proud.
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She has always been beautiful to me. Then and now.
Bing Crosby was a legend. That movie and song will always be memorable to me and my loved ones. She is so gorgeous and sweet.
Unfortunately, there are no singers like that nowadays anymore.
Bing Crosby made more than Christmas songs and should be remembered for more than that.
Thousands of songs, and many that vocalists recorded decades, later. He was Incredible. But his single White Christmas, (The Best) is still the most purchased , song.
Your Dad was always part of Christmas when I was growing up. Will never forget that.
for many of us as well!
I love your dad's voice.White Christmas,so beautiful.
It is truly nice to hear GOOD memories of a good man from his daughter.
Indeed. I wonder why all these "saints" left these ugly comments about someone who passed away 42 years ago!
@@anglomik I think most people are unaware of what his son Phillip said because the press makes more money on supposed scandals
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Crosby
Just as young looking as when I watched her on Dallas. Wow. So pretty. Cute memories.
I loved when he sang White Christmas.
Mary is so charming and sweet....down to earth....lovely.
Loved Bing Crosby. He learned from his mistakes and he tried to make reparation.
She’s a sweetheart 💚
My Dad looked just like Bing Crosby. I miss them both.
This was just delightful! Thanks so much! Love Bing!
Bing was quite handsome, when he was in his youth. Handsome, in his elder years.
She looks wonderful. Her dads music plays in my home, every Christmas and I still love the Dallas DVDs. She was an awesome villainess on Dallas.
collagen run amok!
Good to hear someone from Bing’s family, his daughter saying good things about her father. Not all Bing’s sons had bad things to say about him.
I saw more than one interview with all the sons. He was an SOB, daddy dearest.
@@crystalship9900Funny only one son ever spoke negatively regarding his father. Phillip defended him in interviews and have NEVER seen Dennis or Linny give interviews. They all did however defend Bing in statements given after Gary's book was released. As we now know from research and interviews conducted with the eldest son, not only did he not really write the book, he couldn't remember claims in the book when reinterviewed years later in 9 hrs of taped conversations. Mary explained why the book was written and made more scandalous after she dined with Gary after it's release $$$$
She reminds me of Anne Archer.
Yes!
That was my first thought. She sure looks incredibly like her. By the way, Anne is one very underated actress.
@@jrewing5886 Agreed.
I can see a resemblance that I never saw before, but I do think Anne is much prettier.
@@suepost9026 Yes, I think so also .
He epitomises happy families, kindness and goodness. Look at his dining room. Really small but all glass and light colours and goodness. Not ostentatious. I was only 7 when I watched him while on holiday in Bells of St.Marys. I was enraptured. A beautiful singer and a lovely man. Lucky her.
Sweet lady and sweet remembrances of her dad. My grandfather met Bing in the early 1930’s in Dallas when Bing was rehearsing his show and Pop was a carpenter building the orchestra pit rising stage. They evidently hit it off. My grandmother brought them egg salad sandwiches for lunch which Bing loved.
I love that song and their Christmas shows ❤️
I so love this song. He was so talented. RIP
What a blessing to still have her to keep his memory alive. I really enjoy the old music, the singers nowadays arent nearly as good sadly.
Go b i n g Crosby. Go white Christmas. Thanks for doing interview with Mary. Go Crosby family.
She is still gorgeous and sweet!!
I think she looks great for 60.
Bethany Smith well wealthy gals get all that now.
She sure does!
She looks like Ann Archer.
Except she isnt 60 🤣
@Bethany Smith and those are her natural lips. They were always an unusual shape.
She didn't mention golf. How could she not mention golf?
Merry Christmas to her. I love Bing's music and the movies he made with his buddy Bob Hope, listening and watching with my parents who were a generation or so younger than Bing and absolutely adored him. As did I, and still do listening to him and watching the movies he made with Bob Hope. Both class acts through and through.
sinatra's first wife...she tells how when they were teens...frank took her to see bing in concert at a theater in new jersey...and she says how on the way home all frank could talk about was bing and how he wanted to one day be successful like bing was....bing was a huge influence on singers....huge. and they loved him....sinatra included.
White Christmas was written in memory of Berlin’s son who died as an infant. After I learned that it took all the magic out of the song for me.
Irving Berlin was a Jew. Why would he write a Christmas song in memory of his dead son ???
Thanks for this info. I visited Irving's grave in The Bronx NYC and saw the baby's grave. I was stunned to see the baby died on Christmas. Was this his first born with wife #2?
Irving's 2nd wife was a Catholic.
That's not true
God bless Bing from Millbrae..like my dad teaching me nature
My father was identical He was too young for WW I AND TOO OLD FOR WWII
And the tragedy was that many laughed and thought it was made up!
"White Christmas" is a terribly sad song; but remember Christmas is a terribly sad season as we recall parents, grand-parents, uncles, aunts, relatives, friends have died and so we no long enjoy their physical presence, even as we enjoy their memory. Just look at the recent Judy Garland movie; we don't remember her as she was in her last cadaverous days, we remember her as the vibrant immensely talented movie star, performer she was in her movie roles.
Mary Crosby - so cute!
what a great American, Merry Christmas!
She looks like her mother.
Yes
birdsfan57, she is still gorgeous now, but she was REALLY gorgeous years ago when she was on Dallas and shot J.R. Ewing. I had a schoolboy crush on her then.
Yes, like someone who has indulged in far too many cosmetic "procedures." She's nearly unrecognizable from her days on Dallas. The lip injections are particularly disfiguring/regrettable.
@@saltwatercbI don't like the lips either.
I think it was very wrong to disinherit all his sons and the fact her mother allowed this abuse speaks volumes of how self centered the second family is.
I read a book about good ol' Bing called Hollow Man, I think it was. I was really shocked at what an SOB he was to his sons! And the way he treated his wife Dixie. Wow!
Most of that book was fiction and debunked.
It was a lie
@@sarahmonaghan8664 Not true. His sons, while they were still living, gave interviews about "daddy dearest" which matched up perfectly with the book.
@@crystalship9900 Oh way true .. Bing's best bio writer spoke to approx 250 people who knew Bing...including 9 hrs of taped conversations with the son who supposedly wrote the book. He was taken back through his book and could not recall writing things as he had been drinking throughout this period and the co-author verified this when contacted. The book was pieced together. As to the other book, the main source of info for that book was SO INCENSED at the distortions in it he kept his own journal to counteract the claims. This books claims were traced back and found to be half truths and no truths for the most part. So sad that Bing's reputation was so tarnished and so unfairly. Of the hundreds interviewed most loved him. He was mainly an absentee father during his first marriage .. the busiest guy in Hollywood particularly during the war years. His first wife suffered from extreme shyness and loneliness from Bing's career taking him away so much and suffered from addiction she struggled with throughout the marriage. Bing consistently tried to get her help with this...Phillip described her as the main disciplinarian as well as the various nannies who were employed. Dixie caught one nanny being cruel and threw her out of the house, Dixie was very loving and honest, but unavailable to her boys during certain periods. Both Bing and Dixie loved their boys, but underlying problems caused issues. Bing's absences, Dixie's addiction, harsh nannies, bullying at school for being the sons of a superstar, petty jealousies amongst the boys and expectations of keeping them grounded with good work ethics while surrounded by luxury. Maybe read what the boys got up to that Bing had to bail them out of ... Some things are jaw dropping. Plus all the other three sons gave defensive quotes regarding their father after the books release and Mary spoke of Gary apologising to the family regarding his book afterwards, unfortunately the damage was done.
Also that no police were called, no charges, just normal. Weird.
I'm 64 and she looks older than me. Wow! I still love her.
Looking older isn't a fault of character....
She doesn't look old
She's as beautiful as her mother.
He mother is Katherine Grant an actress in her own right.
@@jeffereyhopkins750 Doesn't look anything like her parents or her siblings!!!
9-21-2024 MS Mary's lovely Mom died, age 90 natural causes. Condolences to Crosby family & thanks for the memories.
Such a beauty…why did she do THAT to her face?!?!?
OMG! She's Anne Archer's doppelganger .
Yes!!! Doesnt look anything like either parent, nor siblings.
She absolutely looks like her full brothers & parents. She basically has her mother’s features on her father’s longer, narrower face shape.
I have always loved watching White Christmas during the holiday season as it is a beautiful movie and it makes me sad not to see it on tv during the holidays anymore so sad. Yes, I had heard bad things about Bing Crosby and how he treated his wife and family but I still love White Christmas the movie as it just renews my faith in the holiday season when I feel so depressed and a grouch..
She may be Bing's daughter but she definitely has her mother's looks. I always remember the lips. Her mother's lips were much like that.
Botox isn't hereditary.💋👄
@@davemojarra2666 exactly!
@@davemojarra2666 Actually, she had those same lips in the 80's. She preceded Botox😄.
She has her father's eyes, but looks like her mother.
Her mother didn't look anything like Mary. Kathy Grant was like a brunette pixie...Very pretty with big brown eyes, a small nose and rosebud lips...a natural beauty...
Love Mary Croshy always have 👍
Apparently he was a better father for his second family. I can't watch him in a movie or hear him sing without thinking of his documented abuse of his poor sons. And no, the artist should not be separated from the man.
Poor sons? They all were responsible for their own adulthoods. Sadly their lives were their own making . Their mother drank heavily even while pregnant .
I have the same problem. I can't separate him from the horrible Father he was to his first family. I don't know. Makes me sad.
Me too Bibi...I can't stand to see him on TCM...I shut the TV off!!! He was not a nice person, nor was Shirley McLain!!! Horrible parents!!!
Strange. One of his first sons Phillip had a completely different take on his father without depending on sales of a book full of scandal. But who are we to judge?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Crosby
Documented? Documented where? Gary’s book? Gary’s bother said he’s a liar!!! Gary later said he embellished the book to make it sell.
Mary Crosby, a beautiful, lovely woman who will always be remembered as Kristin Shepard, the character on "Dallas" who shot JR Ewing. Ms. Crosby remains as appealing now as she was forty years ago when "Dallas Mania" was a worldwide affliction.
She was Isabel in North And South, too.
Wouldn't be Christmas to me without watching "White Christmas" or "Holiday Inn", or playing the album known as "White Christmas" (1945) which epitomizes the Holiday and the forties as well. It stayed number one on the charts for 30 years until Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" knocked it down a few notches. My mom was a huge fan, and when she passed on St. Nicholas Day of 2018, we had the funeral home play "Faith of Our Fathers" (by Bing) at the service. I don't know what to make of his sons criticisms of their dad after he passed...if I love a singer, actor, ball-player...I generally love them for their work. I know that none of us are perfect, and we are all sinners. I also know that redemption is available to all, through the saving Grace of Jesus Christ.
Legend
Yet another casualty of The Hollywood Curse of Face Lifts and Fat Lips....Shiny Tight and Puffy......YIKES
The Stuport Wrong. Don’t assume.
Instead of looking up past pictures. She’s the spitting image of her mother right down to the lips.
Nope. She always looked like that.
@@AmyLSchulte LOL Amy Gurl....Stop acting like those twats on The View and STFU
Mary's lips have always been like that. They predate Botox injections.
I once met Mary Francis when I worked at Consumers Distributing in San Mateo,Ca. In that day they lived in a mansion in Hillsborough a Beverly Hills type of town. She was really nice.
I MISS CONSUMERS DISTRIBUTING. IT WAS A GREAT STORE.
steve94044 Kathryn still lives in the Hillsborough home.
Oh! She looks just like her mother!
My dad was not the monster my
lying brother said he was; he was strict, but my father never beat us black and
blue, and my brother Gary was a vicious, no-good liar for saying so. I have
nothing but fond memories of Dad, going to studios with him, family vacations
at our cabin in Idaho,
boating and fishing with him. To my dying day, I'll hate Gary for dragging Dad's name through the mud.
He wrote Going My Own Way out of greed. He wanted to make money and knew
that humiliating our father and blackening his name was the only way he could
do it. He knew it would generate a lot of publicity. That was the only way he
could get his ugly, no-talent face on television and in the newspapers. My dad
was my hero. I loved him very much. He loved all of us too, including Gary. He was a great
father.[77]
Read up on Bing! Not down!
Crap
@@sametoyoutoo8509Really...so many people uninformed about the debunking of the lies aimed at Bing....really need to read....
He was such a great dad, just ask his son Dennis 🤣
Great to see!
Too bad he was a horrid abusive father to his sons.
Sue Burton I had heard this about Bing Crosby for years & always suspected that he must have been abused as a young boy himself. I’ve done no research on this so have no direct knowledge of it & even, if true, it would NEVER EXCUSE IT. Everyone must take control of their own life & make the right choices as everyone will be held accountable in this life or the next for making the wrong ones.
Turns out that it was the book people edging it on
www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/1216279/Bing-Crosby-son-daughter-book-Mary-Crosby-Gary-Crosby-abuse-news-latest
The more sorid the story, the more money one can make....
@@nthdegree1269 Just because Mary said that he said does not make her truthful or that she knows the truth, Gary is dead and two of his brothers committed suicide and we will never know the truth. It is a fact that abusive parents will select one or more siblings and not others to abuse, no one knows what goes on behind closed doors.
Irish Catholic
She was an alcoholic as well. She drank while pregnant with her sons. They all may have had some degree of fetal alcohol syndrome. Looking at photos of the twins they did have some of the features associated with FAS.
It is nice to see a daughter not trash talk her Hollywood father. 👮♂️
Well that's most likely he left her something in his will
Who shot JR? She did!🤣
She was also a Queen
Queen Shenandoah in Winchester, Va
My hometown
The town has an Apple Blossom parade that she was queen over
Bing crowned her at her coronation in 1077
It’s also the hometown of Patsy Cline
I was proud when Dallas revealed that she shot JR
I know that sounds weird but hey
She seemed like a hometown girl at the time, it was only 3 yrs later
OMG 😲...........I haven't seen Mary Crosby in thirty years! Talk about fifteen minutes of fame!!!
Nice lady and her father seemed like a kind man.
There is a contradiction here. She tells one tale, the sons' fates tell quite another. I saw 'White Christas' when it first hit the screen. It was total luxury. I enjoyed the "Road" pictures, too. But, Bing was always smarmy.
It sounds like her childhood experience was a dream compared to her brothers from another Mother.
Interesting thoughts from his son Phillip from his first marriage. Who do we believe and how do we judge if we do judge?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Crosby
They had a mostly retired father who was able to spend a lot more time with them and a second wife who did not suffer the problems his beautiful first wife experienced.
She looks great. I remember when she appeared on Dallas and other shows in the 70s. I thought she was beautiful then.
Ledge Edge she does not look good, look at her nasty face, to much plastic.
Loved Mary on Dallas ❤️. What's she up to now?
Looks a lot like her mom.
The record single of White Christmas that came out in 1942 is not the true first record single. Originally, the song first appeared in a six disk record album of The Holiday Inn. The six disk album came out months before the record single did. And on one of those disks from that six disk album IS White Christmas. The b side is Let's Start the New Year Right (which is the same b side as the regular record single that came out after the six disk album did). I know this because I unknowingly at first bought the record single that came from that album and learned that it was released on June 1, 1942. Then I found out that the regular record single was released a few months later.
When did this interview date from? Dec. 12, 2019?
I doubt it very much. I think this was probably done as much as 20 years ago.
No this is fairly recent. Mary crosby is around her mid fifties.
@@AStri-zg5xc ahhhh no! ever hear of google? shes 69.
Too bad he wasn't DAD to his 3 sons from his first wife!!! While he was dreaming if a white Christmas they were dreaming if a FATHER!!!
Very sad for the first 4. 2 of them committed suicide.
Interesting as his son Phillip says the opposite. So who to believe?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Crosby
Autumn in Virginia 4 sons not 3
Why are people so mean, why can't they just say nice things about someone a little older who is still very attractive, why tear her down her looks, my god its mean😔
Very well stated and sadly people just do...
@@sheilabarfield3849 its just awful, I think she's still so pretty.
Bitter lonely old queens. Opera fandom is full of the same snippiness. The Cutie Boy Claque at the Met, and their fawning older male acquaintances up in the Peanut Gallery, tried to destroy the longtime Saturday Met Opera radio announcer and it turned out he was an old war hero and as strong as all of those jerks put together. He got the last laugh.
Darling
I m love
She didn't need the plastic surgery her lips now have their own zip code.
First thing I noticed! So obvious!!
Agree
Terrible lips! She has a very different story then that of her brothers!
Her half brothers or full brothers? That is the question . Also Botox should be illegal.
@@Jay-vr9ir She doesn't look anything like her parents or siblings!!!
@@brigittebeltran6701 She looks like the oldest of her brothers (not the steps). She resembled him more before she went "under the knife", first time many years ago, when I thought she was far too young and way too pretty to do so.
Her lips like pornographic..✌💨🏃
She’s a very nice lady - she doesn’t need another critique - she looks great- it’s her life people- 💚
I simply wouldn't have recognized her except for her lips and voice. Six boys...I didn't know that.
I wonder if she had any type of relationship with her half brothers and if she sympathized with how Bing Crosby treated his sons.
I always found it interesting that the sons only bad-mouthed their father after his passing.
Anglomik well because he wasn’t a very good father to them. All 4 sons died early a few committed suicide, I’d say that’s a pattern.
@@misterhot9163 Yes, they really had it bad.
@@misterhot9163 In their 50s and older, so I wouldn't say early ages. The reasons for the suicides have been noted to have very little if anything to do with their father but rather life choices, monetary issues etc.. Only the one son wrote negatively about his father in a book that has been queried over the years. The other sons acknowledged Bing's faults but mainly defended their father in statements under "Crosby family blasts book" after its release.
@@misterhot9163 , two of his sons from his first marriage committed suicide. The two from his marriage to Kathy Grant are still alive. One was playing in a band and living in NYC
Bing was a very handsome guy. I wish the family would have those letters published in a book.
Some of them are in a recent book by Gary Giddin’s. It’s an excellent book and extensively covers Bing’s war work.
I believe the sons
Her lips are hard to look at
Marilyn Skrepich Rude.
I was a bit shocked at the plastic surgery she had. She looks quite different, but still lovely.
But oh, so soft!
Her lips have always looked like that. Look it up. Beautiful woman !
Elaine Clements Finn : Sorry to disagree, but she started with the plastic surgery before her “Dallas” days. She was very pretty without anything needing to be altered. The pressures of Hollywood..........
Why did Bing's sons say he was a bad dad and abused them? She says he was a wonderful father. Someone is lying
Only one son wrote badly about him. The other three admitted his faults but made statements defending him after the books release.
@@mitzymoo3151 yes I remember that sad if Bing did abuse them we'll never know
@@theresaholguin699 There is a great article under redeeming Bing Crosby, it is a 2017 item, the reason I like it is because it talks about some of the mistruths associated with Bing since he passed and explains the how's and why's of these claims. Bing probably wasn't the best dad first time around but I've no doubt he loved his boys and his gorgeous first wife dixie. I love the whole entire Crosby family and think they were all and are talented, beautiful people.
It’s possible to have different perspectives.
@@theresaholguin699his son needed to sell books. Use your head.
Bing Crosby was my 10thcous 5xrem..
But why was he so horrible to his sons by his first wife?
Or why do we not hear what his son Phillip had to say? Maybe scandal and dragging someone through the mud is easier for the press to sell
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Crosby
She looks the same as she did in the 80s. Wow!
Uh.....
Plastic surgery or not, she looks good.
She really does....👍👍...✌💨🏃
Those lips though
Too bad he forgot his 1st family.
Or maybe folks in the press don't want to spend time reporting on what his son Phillip from his first wife said...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Crosby
bullshit!
Bing was awful to the 5 bots from his first marriage
Carol Ann Johnson, don’t be so gullible.
Four not five, and please don't believe all of the negativity surrounding Bing. Some maybe true but a lot is rubbish.
Was he now? Funny how the press skips over what his son Phillip said. But then, Phillip didn't write a book to make money on his dead parents.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Crosby
No he wasn't.
They were bad bots.
Nice interview, but why, oh why did she do that to her face?
Granny like mother like daughter, her mother Kathryn has also freshened herself up a bit too much trying to look like she once did. Didn't quite get the desired effect.
Granny Read about her before assuming.
Because on her ...it doesn't look bad.
@@charlotteziggy8353 exactly
She looks horrible
where'd she get the satchel mouth?
I can’t even hear what she’s saying, just looking at those lips !
It's all I noticed on the thumb nail so I had to click.
I wonder if she was aware of the way her father treated his first family and those boys he had with Dixie Lee? I loved Bing Crosby and have watched every movie he starred in but it is sad to hear the stories of his first family and those poor boys!
Or maybe, the press never chooses to repeat what his son (from the first marriage) Phillip said. But then, he never wrote a book to make money off his dead parents
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Crosby
She knew, she said in another interview that so was so happy that she got a better dad, one who was home more. I thought it was kind of crappy to say when there’s at least 1son left of the 4, there might be 2 not sure.
His first son's lied.
Except for the lips she looks good.
Why did she go under the knife?
I wonder what he would have thought of his baby girl being known as the woman who shot J.R.?
Rosemary Magrino OMG, THAT’S who that is?
MTF...She was one of the boys...
Interesting since his sons claimed he was a horrible fsther.
That’s what I kept thinking, because I heard that years ago his son said that....
His first 4 sons all had issues of one sort of another. Bing himself said he was not a very good father. He worked a great deal and was a strict parent .their mother Dixie was an alcoholic that drank heavily while pregnant and was not a great mother either. Many reports were she had mental health issues.
He was brutal to his sons
These things happen in many familes.In my family my mother adored my two brothers.She was physically abusive to my sister and myself almost to the point of homicide.My brothers she never raised a hand on. My sister and myself were also emotionally abused and neglected by her.So we grew up believing we were the problem.We also saw the value she put into our brothers as males.We grew to believe in male superiority.Like Crosby my mother was well mannered,well,groomed ,well spoken.No one would ever take her for what,she was behind closed doors.A monster.
@@TheTourmaline57 He was totally different with his 'second' family!! Maybe because of his wife, whom he also treated differently than his first! ( 'Sorta' like Jerry Lewis' situation, that everyone is ragging on him about!)
They need to take a look at ole Bing too!!
Back then the job and show business meant the studio usually came frist.
Crosby was abusive with 1st family. Not 2nd. She’s her mama’s mini me!
Not true. He was strict but he and his wife loved their boys. Look at both sides of the equation.
Lies
How old was she to know him? Like 2 years old? It doesn't make sense.
Did she fall into the vat at Axis Chemicals?
What the heck did she do to her face
Wasn't her daughter in star trek the next generation
"He taught me hunting [i.e. killing creatures that can't defend themselves]."
Yep they can over populate and starve that is really kind.
@@autumninvirginia1229
Here's the thing: The British outlawed bear baiting not so much for the bears, but because humans enjoyed it. After all, look at people who pose with deer, etc. that they have killed, putting antlers up on walls; Marlins they have caught.
Here's an idea: raise the money to take all the animals hunted down and ship them to other areas in the world where they would be safe.
Is she the one that shot j.r.??