"Dad was a really under-the-radar guy," said his daughter, actress Mary Crosby, in a recent interview. "So, when he died (in 1977 of a heart attack at age 74), we followed in those footsteps. And, of course, it took us about three decades to realize that we had really, really done him a disservice."
She was furious. But while one of Gary Crosby's three brothers, Phillip Crosby, publicly refuted the severity of Gary Crosby's claim, Crosby's second wife, Kathryn Crosby and his second crop of children, including Mary Crosby, refused to address the allegations at the time.
"That was a huge, incredible mistake," Mary Crosby says in the film. "Because it's one of the things that people think of when his name comes up. Not this incredible legacy of good deeds and beautiful music, but, 'Oh, he's the guy who hit his kids.'"