Very interesting information, Kathryn auditioned for a role in White Christmas, in Bing and Other Things (1968) she said that she was considered for the role of the general’s granddaughter played by Ann Whitfield, but in her 2014 PBS interview she described her role as a role with Playboy-type costumes so maybe she was considered for another role as well (the show girls perhaps). There is a picture in her 1983 book My Life With Bing, with Kathryn interviewing Bing on the set, (I think that it is their first photograph together).

Kathryn appeared as an extra in Forever Female in 1953, So This Is Love 1953 and Bob Hope’s Casanova's Big Night (1954) Also she had small role in Arrowhead with Charlton Heston. She appeared as a manicurist in the Martin and Lewis technicolor musical Living It Up.  Kathryn played the hostess of a party held in the songwriter’s apartment in Rear Window. I had spot her in all her movies no matter how small her role was (it was like playing Where’s Wally) so far I haven’t spot her only in “So This Is Love”. Continuing the nice searching game I was able to spot her in 1:45:26 minute in White Christmas. But the movie was not on her movie’s credits in IMDb
 
It was only after she went to Columbia Pictures that she became a prominent Movie Star. She was leading lady in 15 full length movies between 1955 and 1959. Co-starring with James Stewart, Bette Davis, Victory Mature, Jack Lemon, Tab Hunter, Antony Quinn etc. She had a wide range as an actress, playing a gang-girl in Cell 2455 Death Row, a rich glamourous socialite in Mister Cory, a Mescalero Apache in Reprisal! an oriental princess in the 7th Voyage, an army nurse in Operation Madball, a trapese artist in The Big Circus and she had two death scenes one in Reprisal and one in Phenix City Story (Bing I think died on screen only once in Dr Cook’s Garden). Also, she starred in 13 tv movies co-starring with Cornel Wilde, Bob Hope, Irene Dunne and many others.

Speaking of missed opportunities, White Christmas is not the most memorable role that Kathryn lost. She was considered for the leading part in Nicholas Ray “Rebel Without Cause” a movie that made James Dean star and Natalie Wood and adult star. Also, she got the part of princes Aouda, in Around the World in Eighty Days 1956, but Columbia didn’t allow her to work for another studio.

Last edited by Pantelis Kavouras (17/10/2024 5:14 pm)

​Wow! What a wonderful experience I can only imagine who fascinating it would be to see a movie with the leading lady on your side, unfortunately I was never able to meet Kathryn. Ray Harryhausen and his Dynamation was really something. I remember when I was 5 and first saw the movie on television and I was thrilled with the special effects and the beautiful Princess Parisa (it was many years later that I learned that she was Bing’s wife).

This filmography includes all her significant movie roles including her full length tv movies, that means that some 1953 and 1954 appearances in movies as an extra are not included. Kathryn also made a series of short films for Ford Television Theater and other anthologies in the 50s that they are not included here.
 
Unchained (1955) – Sally Haskins,
Tight Spot (1955) – Young Bride on her honeymoon
Cell 2455 Death Row (1955) – Jo-Anne
5 Against the House (1955) – Jean
The Phenix City Story (1955) – Ellie Rhodes
Storm Center (1956) – Hazel Levering
Reprisal! (1956) – Taini
The Wild Party (1956) – Honey
Mister Cory (1957) – Jen Vollard
The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957) – Anne Martin
The Night the World Exploded (1957) – Laura Hutchinson
Operation Mad Ball (1957) – Lt. Betty Bixby
The Brothers Rico (1957) – Norah Malaks Rico
Gunman's Walk (1958) – Clee Chouard
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) – Princess Parisa
Anatomy of a Murder (1959) – Mary Pilant
The Big Circus (1959) – Jeannie Whirling
1001 Arabian Nights (1959) – Princess Yasminda (only vocal)
The House Next Door TV (1964) Ginny Warren
Doesn't Anyone Know Who I Am? TV (1964) Annie Smith
Cyranoh De Bergerac TV (1971) – Lise
The Initiation of Sarah TV (1978) – Mrs. Goodwin
My Husband, My Sorrow TV (1979) – Joyce Williams
Queen of the Lot (2010) – Elizabeth Lambert

Thanks so much Pantelis! I have a few of them. I agree about her acting. I was fortunate enough to attend many Crosby Events in Brooklyn and New York in the 90's and early 2000's. I was so honored that she wanted me to go along with her and Martin McQuade to these special occasions. Very warm and likeable woman. I will forever treasure the moments I shared with her.

Dieter, I have the Goldilocks film too. I wonder if I was the one who made you a copy. I think my copy is good so I guess it was someone else.