Up for auction "State Fair"Cast Signed Program. Signers are; John Davidson, Kathryn Crosby, Scot Wise and Ben Wright.
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John
Hamilton Davidson (born
December 13, 1941) is an American actor, singer, and game-show
host known for hosting That's Incredible!, Time Machine, and Hollywood Squares in the 1980s, and a revival
of The $100,000 Pyramid in
1991. Davidson was born to two Baptist ministers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
and graduated from high school from White Plains High School in White Plains, New York,
before entering Denison University. He
thought about following in his parents' footsteps but ultimately decided that
he would rather sing about love than preach it.
Davidson went on to work in various television roles, including sitcoms, game shows, variety shows, and talk shows. He is a protégé of television producer Robert James "Bob" Banner Jr., and as a tribute to
his mentor, he ran a summer camp for would-be performers for two summers[ in
the 1970s. As the 1980s began, he became well known for
hosting, alongside Fran Tarkenton and Cathy Lee Crosby, That's Incredible! (1980–84),
a human-interest/stunt-themed series whose creation, by Alan Landsburg, followed in the tradition of the 1950s
television show You Asked for It.
Kathryn
Crosby (born November
25, 1933) is an American retired actress and singer who performed in films
under the stage names Kathryn Grant and Kathryn
Grandstaff. Born Olive
Kathryn Grandstaff in West Columbia, Texas,
she graduated from the University of Texas at
Austin with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in
1955. Two years later she became Bing Crosby's second wife, being more than thirty years his
junior. The couple had three children, Harry, Mary Frances, and Nathaniel.[2] She appeared as a guest star on her husband's
1964–1965 ABC sitcom The Bing
Crosby Show. Crosby largely retired from acting after her
marriage, but did have featured roles as Princess Parisa in The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958),
and in the courtroom drama Anatomy of a Murder (1959).
She also played the part of "Mama Bear" alongside her husband and
children in Goldilocks and
co-starred with Jack Lemmon in the comedy Operation Mad Ball (1957),
with Tony Curtis in the
drama Mister Cory (1957)
and as a trapeze artist in The Big Circus (1959). In the mid-1970s, she
hosted The Kathryn Crosby Show, a 30-minute local talk-show
on KPIX-TV in San Francisco. Husband Bing appeared as a guest occasionally.
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. In the
1960s, Crosby studied for and received her nursing degree at the Queen of Angels Hospital in
Los Angeles. For 16 years ending in 2001, Crosby hosted the Crosby
National Golf Tournament at Bermuda Run Country Club in Bermuda Run, North
Carolina. A nearby bridge carrying U.S. Route 158 over the Yadkin River is named for Kathryn Crosby. On
November 4, 2010, Crosby was seriously injured in an automobile accident in the
Sierra Nevada that killed her 85-year-old second husband, Maurice William
Sullivan, whom she had married in 2000.