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Kitty Carlisle Hart died today.

(September 3, 1910 – April 18, 2007) :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Carlisle_Hart

"Though, at 96, close to becoming a centenarian, 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."

"In 2006 alone, Carlisle racked up performances at Feinstein's at the Regency in New York City, in St. Louis, Missouri, Atlanta, Georgia, and at the famed Plush Room in San Francisco."


Vice Chair of the New York State Council of the Arts 1971-1976
Chair of the New York State Council of the Arts - 1976 - abt 1996
Chair Emeritus of the New York State Council of the Arts
Board member of Empire State College
Honorary trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Honorary trustee of the Museum of Modern Art
Board member of the Center for Arts Education
Chair of the New York Statewide Conference of Women
Special consultant to Governor Nelson Rockefeller on Women's Opportunities.

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Back in 1935 Kitty Carlisle starred opposite the Marx Borthers in this little gem ...



http://www.cduniverse.com/images.asp...+the+Opera+DVD

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Hear a Nov. 24, 2002, Weekend Edition Sunday interview with Kitty Carlisle Hart
in which she discusses her role in A Night at the Opera.


Photo: © 1935 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
Groucho Marx and Kitty Carlisle
in A Night at the Opera (1935).


Kitty Carlisle Hart in MURDER AT THE VANITIES
(her film debut in 1934).


Murder at the Vanities, 1934, with Kitty Carlisle and Duke Ellington

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/stars/hart_k.html