Bing Crosby is a prime example of how people in the public eye can be quite the opposite in private. Other examples are Joan Crawford, Jerry Lewis and the most extreme example, O.J Simpson.
In my old age I have figured out that no one is how they appears. Even looking back at teachers that I liked, later on I found out how they really were.
All that about Joan was revenge for not leaving her daughter anything in her will. Even before Joan died she knew Christina was writing filth about her. Joan’s twins have also repeatedly said Christina is a dirty lie. They Christina hated Joan bc she wanted Joan’s fame. I believe the twins.
Add Shirley McLaine to the list also. Her daughter Sachi Parker, wrote about her Mom in her book “Lucky me:My life with-and without-Mom, Shirley McLaine”. (2013)
@@stephaniegilcher4577 One son who supported him was an alcoholic, had numerous drunk driving arrests, and was married 4 times. 2 committed suicide and Gary of course wrote the book exposing Bing as an *sshole.
Don’t tar all Catholic men with the same brush. I’ve known many faithful and loving Catholic men who were good parents and grandparents and just for the record, other men from other faiths can be abusive too.
@@dee2251Yes, but catholics have a very special and unique kind of hypocrisy. They can go to confession every week and be forgiven, only to start the same behaviours all over again. I witnessed it in my own family. Ugh
Well, 30% of all children, are no relation to the man they called Dad, so it wasn't just men. Dixie's drinking couldn't have been good for her children, either. Bing was contracted to studios, which kept him working. He put the boys in schools to help relieve her stress.
Gary in his book was just revealing the truth. Phil needed to get rid of his fantasy outlook of Bing. It takes courage to come out and reveal the truth in ur family of origin . I personally did this and was ostracized by my entire family. This is actually the norm when revealing the truth and not having undeserved loyalty to parents which most children even as adults have to the end. I went no contact over 20 years ago.
Gary as it turns out ..didn't even really write his own book ..it was pieced together and full of stories Gary couldn't even remember writing.. you know why? He had been drinking heavily throughout this period which was confirmed by the gentlemen who worked on the book. Gary was reinterviewed years later in 9 hrs of taped conversations in which he was challenged regarding research the interviewer had done vs what was in the book. Gary noted he couldn't remember writing certain things as he had been drinking. The other three sons defended Bing after the books release and Mary explained how she spoke to Gary afterwards and he told her WHY the book was written $$$$ and that it wasn't really how it happened. Funny to think that Gary noted in an interview regarding his own child rearing that he spanked and realised the need for rules etc.
I was in the same class as his oldest son Harry from his second wife at Bellarmine College Prep, a Jesuit high in San Jose, California. Bing was a devout Catholic. Harry was a nice kid but not really deeply involved in the extracurricular activities. A chauffeured limousine drove him to school every morning, dropped him off, and picked him up every afternoon at the end of classes.
@@Dhruv_Dogra That wouId be "Not aII parents.." not "AII parents are not..." And ceioconstante is entitled to his or her opinion. I tend to agree, in fact. I saw it in my famiIy, and in others.
@@fflubadubb it's a horrible unimaginable thing to go through. I follow Jill, the Enlightened Target, Dr. Ramani and HG Tudor. It's healing and helpful to learn and read comments of others. Before finding the info on YT, I had no idea how many of us were out there. Sending you a hug. Merry Christmas.
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Ironic how his daughter Mary from his 2nd marriage had the audacity to comment on his 1st marriage when she hadn't even been born when Dixie Lee had died.
Being a child of an abusive parent myself I can say it's a deep trauma that affects each and every relationship for the rest of ones life. As bad as it was for me, I personally knew kids that had it far worse than I did. My spouse and I chose to not spend that poison. We were very different with the beautiful children we were blessed with. Thank God for them.
In their early to mid fifties after the money, that came from Bing and Dixie to look after the boys, invested eventually went bust...after providing the boys with an income long after Bing had passed. Add to that addiction, relationship issues....nothing to do with Bing.
I met Gary Crosby at an AA speaker meeting in Roseville California I was in my late twenties he talked about his life what drugs and alcohol and that his father was meaner than hell to his sons and yes he would whip Gary if he gained weight.
The unacknowledged grandchild mentioned in this video was the actress Denise Crosby, of Star Trek The Next Generation fame. This video was very interesting, but also disturbing. What a messed up family! Great that the second family turned out better, but what a tragedy that first family was!
It’s like as if the first marriage was just for practice. Too bad so many suffer while these men are ‘practicing’. It’s offensive that he got an happy ending in his second marriage. I’m glad his son revealed the truth.
@@Roz-y2dDo you have any insight into what occurred and the point of difference in both marriages. Bing was strict but mainly an absentee father due to work commitments during his first marriage. Dixie had issues that she bravely battled and which Bing tried to get her help with. A lot of the horrible things attributed to Bing since his passing have been debunked. He loved both families.
What about the Mother she was an Alcoholic just like Bing. She didn't treat her sons well either. Where is the Disgust for her. Or is it just the Men who get all the Blane Put on them. Shame one rule for the Male another for the Poor Abusive Mothers. Get Real there is good and bad in Both Sexes. IMHO.
Bing Crosby supposedly bought his wedding rings at a jewelry store on Lexington Street in Baltimore, Maryland. I have been to this store in the past. There was a sign in the store's window about the Crosby connection.
I would take anything Gary Crosby wrote about his dad with a giant grain of salt. Ditto for Christina Crawford, who literally made stuff up about her mother, Joan Crawford, as retaliation for being cut out of the will.
PhiIIip Crosby reminds me of my mother, when it comes to denial, She wouId not accept that her father was abusive, even though I heard tales from her siblings, incIuding one about how he got drunk one night and said he was going to kiII her (my mom) and had to be physically restrained by other maIe famiIy members. He wouId sIap her across the face in pubIic, even after she was technically an aduIt, if he thought she spoke out of turn. My dad caIIed him, "a bastard," but my mother idolized him nonetheless. And Bing's second famiIy had it a Iot better because Bing was not onIy oIder, but his second wife was stronger and wouId not aIIow such abuse.
@@nitahiltner3348 ReaIIy? Where did you read that? I know that Mary, his daughter, was critical of Gary for writing the book, and that Kathryn herseIf wrote that she encouraged Bing to be Iess stand-offish and more affectionate with their chIIdren.
Too bad about how the kids from the first family turned out. They had a terrible situation in their formative years and I would have been shocked had they turned out well-adjusted.
@@misssophie7717which he wasn’t. His own son admitted to exaggerating or just making up the stories in his book in order to sell more copies. Maybe if you did some actual research and not watch unsourced rage bait videos, you’d know that any music historian who’s written about Bing’s life would say those claims have been thoroughly discredited
That book contained no truths and half truths when fact checked. A hatchet job done on Bing that was totally debunked. The main source being so incensed at the distortions included he started his own journal to counteract the claims.
No, Bing Crosby had amassed a fortune, but he put the money in trust for his children. They couldn't receive it until they were 65. Only one son of his first marriage received money and he died within 4 years of receiving it. "Phillip, who died of a heart attack at age 69. Gary died of lung cancer at age 62. Lindsay Crosby and Dennis Crosby both committed suicide."
@@Roz-y2dOMG...Bing had trust funds set up for each son which they received upon turning 21. A small fortune, Gary had more because of Bing recording with him. After Dixie passed Bing apparently added to what she left and the money the boys received was invested. These investments provided for the boys long after Bing passed until they eventually went bust and shortly after the youngest unalived himself. Bing noted he brought houses, cars etc for each son, bailed them out of trouble time and again. He allegedly left money when they turned 65 as when he passed he thought each son was doing well. That money was to take care of the boys in old age...nothing horrid about that. The boys were not seemingly good with money and wasted a lot. I think Bing was thinking long term about his boys welfare. Bing made sure his boys received payments for tv, etc appearances which he put away for each of them. I've also read he turned down a pretty substantial fee and requested the money go to his boys. Why do we only listen to half the story.
Everyone should watch the interview of Ms Clooney on Bing. She expressed, as gingerly as possible how closed off and stuck up Bing was on the set of White Christmas. He wouldn’t celebrate the ending with the cast as he saw himself as above them. As well, apparently, Danny Kaye embarrassed himself trying to get Bing to laugh and approve of him but Bing never would.
Do you mean that Rosemary did not actually say anything bad about Bing Crosby ? I just don't understand the suggestion of listening to Ms. Clooey's interview . This interview was also the the DVD movie on "White Christmas" .
Talk about twisting a story. Rosemary Clooney adored Bing..he came to her rescue during hard times. I've seen that interview, she never insinuated Bing was snooty etc, what she noted was important visitors came to the set and the cast...purely for show...were expected to reperform final sequence...it had been filmed and was finished, but the cast were expected to redo it just for show. Bing treated everybody equally, never fawned or played the studio game. He had done his professional duty and went off to play golf. Nothing snooty about that he just didn't want to bow to the studio. Same as when he stood up to the big wigs in support for Louis Armstrong. Rosemary always spoke beautifully of her friendship with Bing something she cherished. She did note it wasn't always easy for people to get to know Bing...he was a very private person .. but she spoke of the best thing that came out of making White Christmas was her deepening friendship with Bing. She spoke about Bing on a number of occasions...they were like brother and sister, Bing trusted her.
His son lied. He was egged on by the publisher to write a scandal in the book about his father. The rest of the family asked him why would you write such a thing. He needed money and was provoked by the publisher to get money . He was broke . You can see it in the PBS bio. Geesh.
The sadness is: Yes, Bing was busy, but abandoned children shouldn't be beaten! His first wife drank because of the abandonment of her husband! Bing's children did not have support from their father nor their mother! What a curse! Bing's Catholicism was an act!
I loved Bing Crosby singing.im 58 but i remember listening and watching him on tv with Grace Kelly singing True Love? touched my heart and since seing that film was the start to loving his voice.then watching him singing with David Bowie the Drummer Boy 4 weeks before he died in 1977 beautiful.no matter what was said about Bing he will always be my favourite kuner singer.Rest in peace Bing Godbless you Amen 🙏🕊🦋🌹🙏
Very informative fascinating. So many facts. 😔 sad and heartbreaking for the kids who grew up and sustained all collateral damage of the relationship and damage of a tattered marriage. Bing crosby sounds like a selfish and thoughtless guy. A cheater. Most guys are. Terrible father. Abusive. Sorry that some of the sons took their own life. So sad. Waiting for the movie of crosby life to come out. They have so many about judy garland. I saw Hepburn bogart. Brad pitt etc. Even Crawford had her movie. Mommie dearest. Crosby needs his movie. 😊
Phillip Crosby reminds me of certain family members who pretend that things were all peaches and cream in our family despite knowing better. They were not even the favorite! Sad and pathetic as far as I am concerned. Phil Crosby is definitely a chip off of the old abusive block.
Every family has one who denies.. in my father’s case about his mom he couldn’t bear that his mom never wanted him and made him pay for being born. She should never should have been a mother. She beat him once w a 2 by 4 almost killing him if his cousins had interfered.
@@lbjordan5082I have a similar story but I started fighting back in my teens. It’s not that you don’t acknowledge the abuse, but some can never let it be known to others.
Bing Crosby used to live in Hillsborough in the San Francisco Bay Area and my mom actually trick r' treated at his house when she was a kid. People would drive their kids there especially for it.
@@kellyandjulieelander5523 Wow. Was she born out of wedlock or was her mum of a different faith? They’re the reasons Catholics would ignore a family member.
His brother, the band-leader and musician Bob Crosby, said, in an interview, that their father was violent (in the sense of strict) in the way of create his childen - and Bing would have inherited this way to create his children. The first Bing Crosby's wife was alcoholic and all contrbuted to the family routine doesn't be better. Bing was always working (out of home, of course) and many things got out of control...
Whatever real or lies might be said about Bing, he was an absolutely brilliant, very cool & smooth as silk actor and singer. Only Sinatra and Dino come close.💎🎯💎🎯
Guess crosby is father dearest. Waiting for the movie 🎦. Leonardo dicaprio could play him. Do I hear a Martin Scorsese 📼 film in the future. 😍 love to see that one. Gold Xmas.
Stop this. Gary was a drunk, and it killed him. He wrote the book to cover for his failings. He acknowledged he told untruths, as did the last surviving son. How many times, does this have to go out? ‘’Bing’s nanny ( was the rough disciplinarian) had more time with the boys , as Bing was working and Dixie had died of cancer.
THE LIE THAT BING WAS BAD FARTHER NOT TRUE BING WAS A CHRISTIAN TRUE GOOD FATHER GAVE THEM ALL THEY NEEDED BING WAS MAGA STAR TOO BUSY TO BE A BAD FATHER HE WAS GOOD FATHER ....THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER BING CROSBY THE BEST CHRISTIAN CHRISTIAN SONG OF ALL TIME WHITE CHRISTMAS IN CHRISTIAN BASED COUNTRY UNDER CHRISTIAN BASED CONSTITUTION +
Why do families say things about their parents when there dead on how they where treated by them when they where alive.i think its a discrace knowing they can say anything especially if they where famous because people love gossip on stars and they know they will make well on the money side .it's discusting. They have had enough when they were alive and had admirers .Let them rest in peace.Amen to them.🙏🕊🦋🌹🕊
All families have problems. He had a lovely voice, and he used it to bring the world together and make a good living out of it. All families suffer from some kind of abuse in the eyes of others. Booze doesn’t help any situation. We have to accept that all our Parents did the best they could do in their own situations. Children are resilient. Be a grown-up and save your teenage earnings and move out at age 18, and be your own Master and do better in your new life of independence. Be master of your own situation, and forgive your Parents and you’ll be so much happier for it.
Disagree there. Sometimes you do not have to forgive your parent or parents for being abusive. It is a choice. A parent should never ever abuse a child. That child grows to be an adult and probably will be messed up unless they get therapy. And even so there could be collateral damage. 😢😢😢
@@CarolLustgarten Forgiveness isn’t about you. It’s what grown-ups do. Forgiveness is power. It’s a setting free and a letting go. This is why moving out of your family home is so important. One’s parents might say….oh honey don’t leave, we love you living with up as an adult. lol……..NOT! By being master of your own situation, one can see all the same issues in keeping a home and grown children can say at a Sunday dinner together, Thanks Mom and Dad. Since I have my own place, I can relate to all that you did for me. This is music to a parents ears. Forgiveness makes all rough places plain. Forgiveness straightens out the crooked in the soul because one is freed from whatever issues one may’ve gone through.
Not true about Joan Crawford, by the way. Everybody who knew Joan really liked her because she was a kind and generous person who also was involved in a number of charities. Most of her estate went to various charities. The reason Joan cut Christopher and Christina out of the will is because she had already spent a great deal of money trying to help them; in other words, she basically spent their inheritance on them. Eventually, they did get something to the tune of 50 grand after suing. Christina has always been bent on revenge because she didn't succeed while her mother did.
Well, let’s see…the mother was a hopeless drunk, passing out and obviously neglecting her children. Yet none of the boy’s problems are attributed to her. They themselves seem to have transferred all their rage at dad. All blame goes to Bing, even though he had to deal with the stress of all his wife’s issues. Since his second batch of kids were fine, perhaps one should reconsider this character assassination.
It sounded like both parents were alcoholics, but Dixie was not mean whereas perhaps Bing was. Maybe that's why more blame was placed on him rather than on her.
Bing wasn't just an alcoholic, he was mean and vindictive. That was the difference between Bing and his wife. It is the meanness and spitefulness that would have affected his sons. That kind of behaviour shows what kind of man Bing was. Rich or poor, his children would have always had problems due to his innate vindictiveness.
He discovered a photograph and...? Almost unforgettable response which was...? Anyone who remembers Bing mainly because of White Christmas never really listened to the album Come Fly with Me. Is it humanly possible to be a Legend and a non-lack luster parent? The fact that he worried about his children's future tells me that he cared.
One out of 7 children claim Bing abused them mentally and physically. The other 6 say he was just like other fathers of that era, strict. Just like other fathers who spend more time at work than with the children. Vacations were their main time with him. Sounds like my relationship with my father. I suspect The one brother lied to sell a salacious best seller, for money. Very sad and somehow Bing seemed like the kind of person who would not hate his son for this, even forgive him his weakness. One day we will know.
Don't celebrate Xmas. Never do. It is not my religion. Wanted to volunteer Xmas day. Called the salvation army and they never called back. Guess they do not need volunteers. Just rode the streetcar around town. 😊
Everyone has skeletons in there closet what makes Bing Crosby any different. Just because he was in the public eye some how makes him different . It sounds to me like Garry was a gold digger and when ge didnt get money off his dad he came up with bullshit about an abusive father. As far as I can see all Bing did was try to lead them along the right path by not making them ve above themselves just because he was Bing Crosby. Nothing wrong in that. All these nadty things his son came up with is just to tarnish his dads memory because ge never got what he wanted. You cant blame Bing for 2 of them killing themselves if they were all drunks. Let him reat in peace and stop with the tarnishing his name.
It is a well known fact that Bing Crosby had many serious character defects that he enthusiastically indulged in . I still don't feel sorry for his kids .
No, the king is "Christ"mas....Gary tried to make in the musical world but in a blink of an eye it was over. Gary was a vengeful person. My father did horrible things but it was kept between immediate family. It was no one else's business. Gary was an evil person.
No, Gary was not an eviI person. Hiding abuse and covering for the perpetrator is eviI. I saw Gary many times, and he seemed reaI and down to earth, and a survivor, unlike two of his brothers, who didn't make it.
Children who expose abusive parents are not cowards. Parents who abuse their position are. You must be another such sadistic creep hence your sympathy for such a bad father.
Gary was a crybaby. All those allegations against Bing were put to rest by friends and his own family (his other kids). Let the poor man rest in peace and stop treating his life like it's your own personal rag mag.
Lindsay seemed to support Gary. A commented above says their family knew the Crosby family since the early 1900s and always heard bad things about Being and how he treated the boys from his first wife. 🤷♀️
Let's see. All four sons never consistently held a job in their lifetime. None were able to form stable relationships. Two committed suicide. One castigated his father in a book. The one son Phillip who supported his father was an alcoholic, was arrested for drunk driving numerous times, and was married four times. Facts are facts. Two sons supported Gary's accusations. Philip admitted that his father used to beat them. The children from Bing's third marriage who support Bing weren't even born when the abuse happened. They have no idea. Bing was such an *sshole that he put his sons inheritance in a trust that they couldn't access until they reached 65 years of age. Only one made it that far. Even in death, Bing sought to control his sons.
Bing Crosby is a prime example of how people in the public eye can be quite the opposite in private. Other examples are Joan Crawford, Jerry Lewis and the most extreme example, O.J Simpson.
In my old age I have figured out that no one is how they appears. Even looking back at teachers that I liked, later on I found out how they really were.
Add John Wayne to that list.
@@megnakamura7652 EXACTLY!!!! John Wayne was a 33 DEGREE Freemason RACIST!!!!!!!!
All that about Joan was revenge for not leaving her daughter anything in her will. Even before Joan died she knew Christina was writing filth about her. Joan’s twins have also repeatedly said Christina is a dirty lie. They Christina hated Joan bc she wanted Joan’s fame. I believe the twins.
Add Shirley McLaine to the list also. Her daughter Sachi Parker, wrote about her Mom in her book “Lucky me:My life with-and without-Mom, Shirley McLaine”. (2013)
He was a horrible father. Abusive stated by his sons. 2 of his sons committed suicide. Tragic.
Wow. He really wasn’t a fit father, was he?
By one son. The others denied. And the book of the son who said he was abusive was written by Ghostwriters. So who knows the truth
Did you know him personally? If not, then you can't say that. Only his children know for sure.
@@stephaniegilcher4577 One son who supported him was an alcoholic, had numerous drunk driving arrests, and was married 4 times. 2 committed suicide and Gary of course wrote the book exposing Bing as an *sshole.
I love the way so many of these "Catholic" men won't leave their wives, but don't hesitate to cheat on them.
Don’t tar all Catholic men with the same brush. I’ve known many faithful and loving Catholic men who were good parents and grandparents and just for the record, other men from other faiths can be abusive too.
@@dee2251Yes, but catholics have a very special and unique kind of hypocrisy. They can go to confession every week and be forgiven, only to start the same behaviours all over again. I witnessed it in my own family. Ugh
Well, 30% of all children, are no relation to the man they called Dad, so it wasn't just men. Dixie's drinking couldn't have been good for her children, either. Bing was contracted to studios, which kept him working. He put the boys in schools to help relieve her stress.
Gary in his book was just revealing the truth. Phil needed to get rid of his fantasy outlook of Bing. It takes courage to come out and reveal the truth in ur family of origin . I personally did this and was ostracized by my entire family. This is actually the norm when revealing the truth and not having undeserved loyalty to parents which most children even as adults have to the end. I went no contact over 20 years ago.
Yes and you get your independent life and power back again. Without following a dysfunctional dynamic. All following the leader in chief.
He used to call his son Gary.. Lard ass… sick
The no contact probably saved you. I wish I’d done it much sooner.
Gary as it turns out ..didn't even really write his own book ..it was pieced together and full of stories Gary couldn't even remember writing.. you know why? He had been drinking heavily throughout this period which was confirmed by the gentlemen who worked on the book. Gary was reinterviewed years later in 9 hrs of taped conversations in which he was challenged regarding research the interviewer had done vs what was in the book. Gary noted he couldn't remember writing certain things as he had been drinking. The other three sons defended Bing after the books release and Mary explained how she spoke to Gary afterwards and he told her WHY the book was written $$$$ and that it wasn't really how it happened. Funny to think that Gary noted in an interview regarding his own child rearing that he spanked and realised the need for rules etc.
Did you know him personally? If not, then you can't say that. Only his children know for sure.
I was in the same class as his oldest son Harry from his second wife at Bellarmine College Prep, a Jesuit high in San Jose, California. Bing was a devout Catholic. Harry was a nice kid but not really deeply involved in the extracurricular activities. A chauffeured limousine drove him to school every morning, dropped him off, and picked him up every afternoon at the end of classes.
Most everything that you talked about I was already aware of, but there was a few surprises. I didn’t know. Thank you so much for a wonderful post.
Loved his singing and acting .
In most families there's a Golden Child and a Scape Goat.
All parents are not narcissistic. Don't project your experiences on all of us..
@@Dhruv_Dogra That wouId be "Not aII parents.." not "AII parents are not..." And ceioconstante is entitled to his or her opinion. I tend to agree, in fact. I saw it in my famiIy, and in others.
Scapegoat here !
@@fflubadubb it's a horrible unimaginable thing to go through. I follow Jill, the Enlightened Target, Dr. Ramani and HG Tudor. It's healing and helpful to learn and read comments of others. Before finding the info on YT, I had no idea how many of us were out there. Sending you a hug. Merry Christmas.
with new discoveries about the other dark face of the entertainment world. it looks like famous people made deals with the devil a thing encouraged by top satanic execs and on top of that to advance in this dark industry they must pay a price to the demon its human sacrifice it can be a member or more of your family or among fans like it shows in many death during their concerts example ariana grande heavy metal bands the most obvious being travis Scott satanic concert. that was confirmed by an ex witch on Michael Knowles show. it's all in the open now. concerts like madonna , recentlyn Taylor swift can be a witch ceremony as exorcist father reehil exposed. .. check out all of the mentionned above. do not attend concerts !
I like his duet with David Bowie singing Little Drummer Boy.
Ironic how his daughter Mary from his 2nd marriage had the audacity to comment on his 1st marriage when she hadn't even been born when Dixie Lee had died.
She can't talk about her dad? Wow
Thank you for sharing.
He had four sons from his first marriage. Unfortunately, two committed suicide.
why
Being a child of an abusive parent myself I can say it's a deep trauma that affects each and every relationship for the rest of ones life. As bad as it was for me, I personally knew kids that had it far worse than I did. My spouse and I chose to not spend that poison. We were very different with the beautiful children we were blessed with. Thank God for them.
And it had nothing to do with "abuse"
In their early to mid fifties after the money, that came from Bing and Dixie to look after the boys, invested eventually went bust...after providing the boys with an income long after Bing had passed. Add to that addiction, relationship issues....nothing to do with Bing.
@@mitzymoo3151 Nope, Bings will withheld the inheritance until they turned 65
I met Gary Crosby at an AA speaker meeting in Roseville California I was in my late twenties he talked about his life what drugs and alcohol and that his father was meaner than hell to his sons and yes he would whip Gary if he gained weight.
What you hear here, who you see here, let it stay here.
The unacknowledged grandchild mentioned in this video was the actress Denise Crosby, of Star Trek The Next Generation fame. This video was very interesting, but also disturbing. What a messed up family! Great that the second family turned out better, but what a tragedy that first family was!
on par with Ryan O'Neal's
It’s like as if the first marriage was just for practice. Too bad so many suffer while these men are ‘practicing’. It’s offensive that he got an happy ending in his second marriage. I’m glad his son revealed the truth.
@@Roz-y2dDo you have any insight into what occurred and the point of difference in both marriages. Bing was strict but mainly an absentee father due to work commitments during his first marriage. Dixie had issues that she bravely battled and which Bing tried to get her help with. A lot of the horrible things attributed to Bing since his passing have been debunked. He loved both families.
What about the Mother she was an Alcoholic just like Bing. She didn't treat her sons well either. Where is the Disgust for her. Or is it just the Men who get all the Blane Put on them. Shame one rule for the Male another for the Poor Abusive Mothers. Get Real there is good and bad in Both Sexes. IMHO.
Since when has telling the truth about someone become Throwing them Under the Bus??
I'm sure if he had it to do over, he'd do a better job like off us would. Such an incredible media star.
Bing Crosby supposedly bought his wedding rings at a jewelry store on Lexington Street in Baltimore, Maryland. I have been to this store in the past. There was a sign in the store's window about the Crosby connection.
He was a horrible abusive father to his 4 boys!... 😢
And daughter
I knew a family member that said the same thing.
It's so strange to think about his movie persona and hear what he was really like !
No he wasn't.
Read the book years ago. Even watching the Christmas video of him with David Bowie was an indication of his sh*tty personality.
I would take anything Gary Crosby wrote about his dad with a giant grain of salt. Ditto for Christina Crawford, who literally made stuff up about her mother, Joan Crawford, as retaliation for being cut out of the will.
PhiIIip Crosby reminds me of my mother, when it comes to denial, She wouId not accept that her father was abusive, even though I heard tales from her siblings, incIuding one about how he got drunk one night and said he was going to kiII her (my mom) and had to be physically restrained by other maIe famiIy members. He wouId sIap her across the face in pubIic, even after she was technically an aduIt, if he thought she spoke out of turn. My dad caIIed him, "a bastard," but my mother idolized him nonetheless. And Bing's second famiIy had it a Iot better because Bing was not onIy oIder, but his second wife was stronger and wouId not aIIow such abuse.
I read Kathy was abusive to their own 3 kids.
@@nitahiltner3348 ReaIIy? Where did you read that? I know that Mary, his daughter, was critical of Gary for writing the book, and that Kathryn herseIf wrote that she encouraged Bing to be Iess stand-offish and more affectionate with their chIIdren.
😊@@Sukijopa
My dad worked for Bing Crosby and with his 4 sons on Crosby's ranch. He would eat dinner with them. Gary would ask my dad for money.
He is not the King of Christmas!
Oh yes he is.
@@Ash-hi5hy You sound obsessed with Bing Crosby.
Jesus
@@ALA9E Bing did sing beautiful Christmas Carols
Too bad about how the kids from the first family turned out. They had a terrible situation in their formative years and I would have been shocked had they turned out well-adjusted.
I miss hearing Bing singing White Christmas at Christmas time, at least in the U.K. Why does it not happen any more ? Nobody Sang it better.8
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Seriously? This is a video about an abusive monster on many levels.
@@misssophie7717which he wasn’t. His own son admitted to exaggerating or just making up the stories in his book in order to sell more copies. Maybe if you did some actual research and not watch unsourced rage bait videos, you’d know that any music historian who’s written about Bing’s life would say those claims have been thoroughly discredited
Great job! Thank you!
Both Cosby and Hope were at the top of the popularity list...there were groupies and neither were saints by any stretch of the word.
Hope and Crosby were Sociopaths......then again, show me anyone in Hollywood or the Music business, who isn't.
Do you actually know what a groupie is?
Being Crosby ,s Autobiography was called the hollow man doesn't that say it all!
That book contained no truths and half truths when fact checked. A hatchet job done on Bing that was totally debunked. The main source being so incensed at the distortions included he started his own journal to counteract the claims.
Point taken! lthanks, taught me valuable lesson@@mitzymoo3151
No, Bing Crosby had amassed a fortune, but he put the money in trust for his children.
They couldn't receive it until they were 65.
Only one son of his first marriage received money and he died within 4 years of receiving it.
"Phillip, who died of a heart attack at age 69. Gary died of lung cancer at age 62. Lindsay Crosby and Dennis Crosby both committed suicide."
65? What good would it do then? What an evil arse Bing was!
@@Roz-y2dOMG...Bing had trust funds set up for each son which they received upon turning 21. A small fortune, Gary had more because of Bing recording with him. After Dixie passed Bing apparently added to what she left and the money the boys received was invested. These investments provided for the boys long after Bing passed until they eventually went bust and shortly after the youngest unalived himself. Bing noted he brought houses, cars etc for each son, bailed them out of trouble time and again. He allegedly left money when they turned 65 as when he passed he thought each son was doing well. That money was to take care of the boys in old age...nothing horrid about that. The boys were not seemingly good with money and wasted a lot. I think Bing was thinking long term about his boys welfare. Bing made sure his boys received payments for tv, etc appearances which he put away for each of them. I've also read he turned down a pretty substantial fee and requested the money go to his boys. Why do we only listen to half the story.
@@Roz-y2d Yep, wanted to control them even in death. What a sick f*ck.
Everyone should watch the interview of Ms Clooney on Bing. She expressed, as gingerly as possible how closed off and stuck up Bing was on the set of White Christmas. He wouldn’t celebrate the ending with the cast as he saw himself as above them. As well, apparently, Danny Kaye embarrassed himself trying to get Bing to laugh and approve of him but Bing never would.
Do you mean that Rosemary did not actually say anything bad about Bing Crosby ? I just don't understand the suggestion of listening to Ms. Clooey's interview . This interview was also the the DVD movie on "White Christmas" .
Talk about twisting a story. Rosemary Clooney adored Bing..he came to her rescue during hard times. I've seen that interview, she never insinuated Bing was snooty etc, what she noted was important visitors came to the set and the cast...purely for show...were expected to reperform final sequence...it had been filmed and was finished, but the cast were expected to redo it just for show. Bing treated everybody equally, never fawned or played the studio game. He had done his professional duty and went off to play golf. Nothing snooty about that he just didn't want to bow to the studio. Same as when he stood up to the big wigs in support for Louis Armstrong. Rosemary always spoke beautifully of her friendship with Bing something she cherished. She did note it wasn't always easy for people to get to know Bing...he was a very private person .. but she spoke of the best thing that came out of making White Christmas was her deepening friendship with Bing. She spoke about Bing on a number of occasions...they were like brother and sister, Bing trusted her.
His son lied. He was egged on by the publisher to write a scandal in the book about his father. The rest of the family asked him why would you write such a thing. He needed money and was provoked by the publisher to get money . He was broke . You can see it in the PBS bio. Geesh.
Notice they always wait until after the person dies to put out the tell alls.
That is one and only thing I will give BD Hyman
At least she had the guts(or the stupidity) to write about her mother when she was alive
Most are scared to say anything while the abusive parent is alive.
@@ohwell94And yet out of all the ‘tell all’s’ I’m not sure I believe her.
@@Roz-y2d I don't believe a word of it
You can almost see the glow from her halo on the pages
Bette Davis's daughter didn't.
The sadness is: Yes, Bing was busy, but abandoned children shouldn't be beaten!
His first wife drank because of the abandonment of her husband!
Bing's children did not have support from their father nor their mother!
What a curse!
Bing's Catholicism was an act!
I doubt it. Catholics can be very judgmental and cruel.
His grandfather was a founder of Portland, Or.Bing cherrys are named for him.
The Oh, Henry candy bar was named after Henry Fonda.
And the mountain in Washington was named after Prince Rainier III of Monaco!
I loved Bing Crosby singing.im 58 but i remember listening and watching him on tv with Grace Kelly singing True Love? touched my heart and since seing that film was the start to loving his voice.then watching him singing with David Bowie the Drummer Boy 4 weeks before he died in 1977 beautiful.no matter what was said about Bing he will always be my favourite kuner singer.Rest in peace Bing Godbless you Amen 🙏🕊🦋🌹🙏
Very informative fascinating. So many facts. 😔 sad and heartbreaking for the kids who grew up and sustained all collateral damage of the relationship and damage of a tattered marriage. Bing crosby sounds like a selfish and thoughtless guy. A cheater. Most guys are. Terrible father. Abusive. Sorry that some of the sons took their own life. So sad. Waiting for the movie of crosby life to come out. They have so many about judy garland. I saw Hepburn bogart. Brad pitt etc. Even Crawford had her movie. Mommie dearest. Crosby needs his movie. 😊
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Phillip Crosby reminds me of certain family members who pretend that things were all peaches and cream in our family despite knowing better. They were not even the favorite! Sad and pathetic as far as I am concerned. Phil Crosby is definitely a chip off of the old abusive block.
Every family has one who denies.. in my father’s case about his mom he couldn’t bear that his mom never wanted him and made him pay for being born. She should never should have been a mother. She beat him once w a 2 by 4 almost killing him if his cousins had interfered.
@@lbjordan5082I have a similar story but I started fighting back in my teens. It’s not that you don’t acknowledge the abuse, but some can never let it be known to others.
They always wait until they die to attack them - when they cannot defend themselves 😢😢
Bing Crosby used to live in Hillsborough in the San Francisco Bay Area and my mom actually trick r' treated at his house when she was a kid. People would drive their kids there especially for it.
Now that’s a factinate!
It sure is! Happy holidays Jadestorm215 :)
We heard this. Same with Joan Crawford apparently 🇦🇺
Where is the alleged granddaughter of Bing Crosby, whom he never met, today?
It's actress Denise Crosby, of Star Trek, The Next Generation fame.
@@kellyandjulieelander5523 Wow. Was she born out of wedlock or was her mum of a different faith? They’re the reasons Catholics would ignore a family member.
I would rather NOT have a white Christmas...I don't like driving/traveling in the snow...too cold brrrr 🥶
John: actually bing drove himself to the mud. I wonder Seth MacFarlane made an accurate bit in episodes if family guy.
Dean was a much better singer than B ing
His brother, the band-leader and musician Bob Crosby, said, in an interview, that their father was violent (in the sense of strict) in the way of create his childen - and Bing would have inherited this way to create his children. The first Bing Crosby's wife was alcoholic and all contrbuted to the family routine doesn't be better. Bing was always working (out of home, of course) and many things got out of control...
Jesus is the 'King of Christmas'.......✝️👑
Whatever real or lies might be said about Bing, he was an absolutely brilliant, very cool & smooth as silk actor and singer. Only Sinatra and Dino come close.💎🎯💎🎯
Gary didn’t have guts enough to say that before his dad past. It was all about his book & money.
He always reminded me of a Hillbilly.
Guess crosby is father dearest. Waiting for the movie 🎦. Leonardo dicaprio could play him. Do I hear a Martin Scorsese 📼 film in the future. 😍 love to see that one. Gold Xmas.
If Scorsese directs it, the film would be violent and gory. He likes his knives out.
Martin Short as Bing Crosby. I'll pay to see that.
Stop this. Gary was a drunk, and it killed him. He wrote the book to cover for his failings. He acknowledged he told untruths, as did the last surviving son. How many times, does this have to go out? ‘’Bing’s nanny ( was the rough disciplinarian) had more time with the boys , as Bing was working and Dixie had died of cancer.
Bing , bang, bong.
He smoked & drank.
What a sad and pathetic picture of wonderful window dressing .
Bing Crosby a comedian? Really? He wasn’t very funny in my opinion.
Neither are you. Slag.
THE LIE THAT BING WAS BAD FARTHER NOT TRUE BING WAS A CHRISTIAN TRUE GOOD FATHER GAVE THEM ALL THEY NEEDED BING WAS MAGA STAR TOO BUSY TO BE A BAD FATHER HE WAS GOOD FATHER ....THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER BING CROSBY THE BEST CHRISTIAN CHRISTIAN SONG OF ALL TIME WHITE CHRISTMAS IN CHRISTIAN BASED COUNTRY UNDER CHRISTIAN BASED CONSTITUTION +
DEAN MARTIN DID NOT FOLLOW BING....HIS MENTORS WERE THE MILLS BROTHERS..NOT BING
Oh, so success is only reached if you get an award or make it in hollywood???
So glad I am not THAT kind of "successful "!!!!
Why do families say things about their parents when there dead on how they where treated by them when they where alive.i think its a discrace knowing they can say anything especially if they where famous because people love gossip on stars and they know they will make well on the money side .it's discusting. They have had enough when they were alive and had admirers .Let them rest in peace.Amen to them.🙏🕊🦋🌹🕊
All families have problems. He had a lovely voice, and he used it to bring the world together and make a good living out of it. All families suffer from some kind of abuse in the eyes of others. Booze doesn’t help any situation. We have to accept that all our Parents did the best they could do in their own situations. Children are resilient. Be a grown-up and save your teenage earnings and move out at age 18, and be your own Master and do better in your new life of independence. Be master of your own situation, and forgive your Parents and you’ll be so much happier for it.
Disagree there. Sometimes you do not have to forgive your parent or parents for being abusive. It is a choice. A parent should never ever abuse a child. That child grows to be an adult and probably will be messed up unless they get therapy. And even so there could be collateral damage. 😢😢😢
You can forgive which is for your benefit but you don’t have to forget
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Forgiveness isn’t about you. It’s what grown-ups do. Forgiveness is power. It’s a setting free and a letting go. This is why moving out of your family home is so important. One’s parents might say….oh honey don’t leave, we love you living with up as an adult. lol……..NOT! By being master of your own situation, one can see all the same issues in keeping a home and grown children can say at a Sunday dinner together, Thanks Mom and Dad. Since I have my own place, I can relate to all that you did for me. This is music to a parents ears. Forgiveness makes all rough places plain. Forgiveness straightens out the crooked in the soul because one is freed from whatever issues one may’ve gone through.
So, ‘turn the other cheek’ sort of thing. 🤣😅😂
Not true about Joan Crawford, by the way. Everybody who knew Joan really liked her because she was a kind and generous person who also was involved in a number of charities. Most of her estate went to various charities. The reason Joan cut Christopher and Christina out of the will is because she had already spent a great deal of money trying to help them; in other words, she basically spent their inheritance on them. Eventually, they did get something to the tune of 50 grand after suing. Christina has always been bent on revenge because she didn't succeed while her mother did.
The people who make these things don't seem to understand that daughter Mary Crosby had a different mother (Crosby's second wife) than the four boys.
Sounds like a whole lot of supposition.
Well, let’s see…the mother was a hopeless drunk, passing out and obviously neglecting her children. Yet none of the boy’s problems are attributed to her. They themselves seem to have transferred all their rage at dad. All blame goes to Bing, even though he had to deal with the stress of all his wife’s issues. Since his second batch of kids were fine, perhaps one should reconsider this character assassination.
It sounded like both parents were alcoholics, but Dixie was not mean whereas perhaps Bing was. Maybe that's why more blame was placed on him rather than on her.
Bing wasn't just an alcoholic, he was mean and vindictive.
That was the difference between Bing and his wife.
It is the meanness and spitefulness that would have affected his sons.
That kind of behaviour shows what kind of man Bing was.
Rich or poor, his children would have always had problems due to his innate vindictiveness.
Bing caused his wife to drink and indirectly his boy’s suicide. Don’t blame the victims.
He discovered a photograph and...?
Almost unforgettable response which was...?
Anyone who remembers Bing mainly because of White Christmas never really listened to the album Come Fly with Me.
Is it humanly possible to be a Legend and a non-lack luster parent? The fact that he worried about his children's future tells me that he cared.
It was his "method" of caring that people question
Er.... not letting them have the inheritance til they were 65? Very caring. 🤣
9:18, Dixie Lee took too many "sleeping pillows"? WTF?
Who doesn't edit these scripts? I've noticed several mispronunciations and factual omissions.
True artists are not like ordinary ppl and are often misunderstood. Like all ppl they are flawed.
You could say the same for true tyrants and dictators.
His twin boys were born with fetal alcohol syndrome bc of their mother’s drinking. They def have the typical facial features.
Hey certainly hope you can defend yourself after your death.
One out of 7 children claim Bing abused them mentally and physically.
The other 6 say he was just like other fathers of that era, strict.
Just like other fathers who spend more time at work than with the children. Vacations were their main time with him. Sounds like my relationship with my father.
I suspect The one brother lied to sell a salacious best seller, for money. Very sad and somehow Bing seemed like the kind of person who would not hate his son for this, even forgive him his weakness.
One day we will know.
Is anyone else feeling nostalgic listening to White Christmas tonight?
Nope.
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Not with him 😮
I miss hearing Bing singing this song at Christmas time. It doesn't happen anymore, at least in the U.K. Why ?
Don't celebrate Xmas. Never do. It is not my religion. Wanted to volunteer Xmas day. Called the salvation army and they never called back. Guess they do not need volunteers. Just rode the streetcar around town. 😊
Will always love Bing, spoiled kids will never change that
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This channel dispenses low brow, salacious “shock gossip” schlock with the best of them (or worst). Blechhh!
And yet here you are, watching the video! What a hypocrite you are.
You missed adding that Bing was a terrible racist.
Here we go.
Any proof?
Bing Crosby wasn't racist Bing Crosby was friends with Louis Armstrong
Yep, in Gary's book he mentions his dad being involved in the KKK.
Everyone has skeletons in there closet what makes Bing Crosby any different. Just because he was in the public eye some how makes him different . It sounds to me like Garry was a gold digger and when ge didnt get money off his dad he came up with bullshit about an abusive father. As far as I can see all Bing did was try to lead them along the right path by not making them ve above themselves just because he was Bing Crosby. Nothing wrong in that. All these nadty things his son came up with is just to tarnish his dads memory because ge never got what he wanted. You cant blame Bing for 2 of them killing themselves if they were all drunks. Let him reat in peace and stop with the tarnishing his name.
I am sick and tired of videos trashing most every late celebrity.
Sensationalist revisionist garbage.
It’s not revisionist, it’s the truth. Crosby was an abusive person. Two son committed suicide. I can’t stand to listen to his Christmas songs anymore.
I've noticed all the bashing of the late great singers of the Golden era too. I find it furiously irritating. Today's singers cannot compete.
What a sickening narrator.
It is a well known fact that Bing Crosby had many serious character defects that he enthusiastically indulged in . I still don't feel sorry for his kids .
No, the king is "Christ"mas....Gary tried to make in the musical world but in a blink of an eye it was over. Gary was a vengeful person. My father did horrible things but it was kept between immediate family. It was no one else's business. Gary was an evil person.
I prefer Peter Pan myself.
No, Gary was not an eviI person. Hiding abuse and covering for the perpetrator is eviI. I saw Gary many times, and he seemed reaI and down to earth, and a survivor, unlike two of his brothers, who didn't make it.
Gary, should not have talk about his father, what a coward Gary is.👿
Children who expose abusive parents are not cowards. Parents who abuse their position are. You must be another such sadistic creep hence your sympathy for such a bad father.
he needed to tell the truth that everyone in hollywood already knew. he is nt even close to a coward.
Why shouldn't he?
Exactly!
@@mlcoffey2Gary was pissed off because he wasn't Bing's golden boy.
To the narrator who sounds heavily Canadian with a child like voice :
The word is pronounced “prowess “ nOT “ prowNEss”
Gary was a crybaby. All those allegations against Bing were put to rest by friends and his own family (his other kids). Let the poor man rest in peace and stop treating his life like it's your own personal rag mag.
You are definitely watching the wrong channel if this video offends you.
Lindsay seemed to support Gary. A commented above says their family knew the Crosby family since the early 1900s and always heard bad things about Being and how he treated the boys from his first wife. 🤷♀️
Let's see. All four sons never consistently held a job in their lifetime. None were able to form stable relationships. Two committed suicide. One castigated his father in a book. The one son Phillip who supported his father was an alcoholic, was arrested for drunk driving numerous times, and was married four times. Facts are facts. Two sons supported Gary's accusations. Philip admitted that his father used to beat them. The children from Bing's third marriage who support Bing weren't even born when the abuse happened. They have no idea. Bing was such an *sshole that he put his sons inheritance in a trust that they couldn't access until they reached 65 years of age. Only one made it that far. Even in death, Bing sought to control his sons.