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It's not clear whether Crosby ever suspected that his first wife's drinking had an adverse affect on their twins, Trachtenberg admits. Dennis Crosby killed himself in 1991, and Phillip died...
Dec 3, 2014 · Dec 3, 2014. A stunning new TV documentary about Bing Crosby features revelations his twin boys, Dennis and Phillip, from his first marriage may have suffered from foetal alcohol syndrome.
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Mar 3, 2022 · Her drinking allegedly affected her twins as specialists at USC confirmed that they were born with fetal alcohol syndrome. However, when she was not drinking, she was warm and loving to her sons.
Jun 7, 2020 · The specialists looked at them and said 'Yeah, this is like a textbook case of fetal alcohol syndrome.'" Eventually, all of Bing's sons from his marriage to Lee became alcoholics, and by the time Dennis was 56, he had committed suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot wound .
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But a new documentary called Bing Crosby Rediscovered - airing Tuesday night at 8 p.m. Et on PBS - sheds fresh light on Crosby's first family with Dixie Lee, a shy actress who drank herself to oblivion before succumbing to ovarian cancer in 1952 at the age of 41. She and Crosby had four sons, two of whom were twins named Dennis and Phillip, who ...
Mar 9, 2021 · A 2014 PBS documentary, Bing Crosby Rediscovered, examined how Lee's drinking may have affected their marriage and their children, particularly the twins Phillip and Dennis. As People reported, the film's director suspected the Crosby twins had fetal alcohol syndrome based on examining their physical appearance.
In the new documentary on the legendary crooner "Bing Rediscovered, which haired on PBS last December, it is reported that twins Dennis and Phillip Crosby might have suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome due to their mother's alcoholism, which was common knowledge to Hollywood insiders in the 1930s and 1940s.
