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Kitty Carlisle Hart

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Born:
September 3, 1910 in New Orleans, LA
Death:
April 18, 2007
Biography:New Orleans-born stage and film actress Kitty Carlisle Hart launched herself with towering success in numerous performance arenas during her long lifetime. The first consisted almost exclusively of cinematic roles during the early years of film (when she was credited as "Kitty Carlisle"), such as the ingenue in Mitchell Leisen's Murder at the Vanities, and -- on a more prominent level -- one of the two romantic leads used by studio head Irving Thalberg to regenerate the waning popularity of the Marx Brothers, in their A Night at the Opera. Alongside this cinematic work, Carlisle tackled occasional operatic roles, such as that of Lucretia in the American premiere of Benjamin Britten's Rape of Lucretia.

After a period of professional inactivity that found her marrying and parenting children with legendary composer Moss Hart, Carlisle Hart turned up again, in a second capacity: that of television... Full Biography

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Kitty Carlisle Hart, 96, April 17: The actress and socialite was a fixture in Hollywood and in New...
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