RIP Kitty Carlisle

I remember her from "What's my Line"

Actress Kitty Carlisle Hart Dies at 96



NEW YORK — Kitty Carlisle Hart, whose long career spanned Broadway, opera, television and film, including the classic Marx Brothers movie "A Night at the Opera," has died at age 96, her son said Wednesday.

Christopher Hart said his mother had been in and out of the hospital since contracting pneumonia over the Christmas holidays.

She had been touring around the country in her one-woman show "Here's to Life" until getting sick.

David Lewis, her longtime musical director, said: "The show was about everyone she had known: Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and her wonderful relationship with her husband, Moss Hart."

Lewis said when he once asked her "why she would attend events every single night of her life, and dress up and be the grand dame Kitty Carlisle Hart, she said that the grim reaper was lapping at her feet. She had to outpace him."

A December appearance in Atlanta was her last, her son said.

Hart had appeared for years on the popular game show "To Tell the Truth" as a celebrity panelist.

The entertainer was also a tireless advocate for the arts, serving 20 years on the New York State Council on the Arts. In 1991, she received the National Medal of Arts from the first President Bush.

http://www.accessatlanta.com/entertainment/content/shared-gen/ap/TV/Obit_Hart.html

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She was supposed to live forever.

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Amazing to think that she appeared with the Marx Brothers as the young singer in A Night at the Opera in 1935.

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Rest In Peace, Kitty.

I loved her. What a life!

I didn't think she was still alive.

She always had big hair and was funny.

Rest in peace Kitty.

Apparently, she was romantically linked to Thomas Dewey at one point.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0137634/bio

The article isn't on the web, but Wikipedia says

Though at 96 Carlisle still toured and performed with gusto, her act consisted of anecdotes about the many great men in American musical theatre history that she has known, notably George Gershwin, who proposed marriage (according to a recent interview in American Heritage magazine), Irving Berlin, Kurt Weill, Oscar Hammerstein, and Frederick Loewe, interspersed with a few of the songs that made each of them famous.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Carlisle_Hart

There's a picture of Young Kitty Carlisle, for those of us who remember the elegant middle aged lady on "What's My Line."

May she rest in peace, she was just so elegant on To Tell the Truth

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Somehow it was always comforting to know that Kitty was still around. x(

Kitty Carlisle Hart
Age 90

From: "Joyce Tenneson Wise Women: A Celebration of Their Insights, Courage and Beauty 2002"

RIP Ms. Carlisle Hart. You were magnificent.

TV together as a family. Who does that anyomre!

I remember seeing Kitty Carlisle Hart in a cameo in the film "Six Degrees of Separation"...playing herself. And thinking...wow, she still looks fabulous. And she's still working.

That's sad news. :-(

96 and still at it. RIP, Kitty! :toast:

RIP, Kitty.

It's hard to see that generation go, there aren't many left who can talk about what that period in the theater was like....

leaving us. There aren't too many of them left. R.I.P. Kitty.

I remember watching her on "To Tell the Truth." I didn't even realize she was still alive.
RIP, Kitty.

She always looked the same age.