People we love: Kitty Carlisle

<a href=”https://thewritesideofmybrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/kittycarlisle.jpg”><img class=” wp-image-4477 ” title=”kittycarlisle” src=”https://thewritesideofmybrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/kittycarlisle.jpg” alt=”” width=”160″ height=”254″ /></a> Kitty Carlisle, September 3, 1910 – April 17, 2007Born on this Day in 1910.

Singer and actress Kitty Carlisle was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was a regular panelist on To Tell the Truth. She received the National Medal of Arts from President George Bush. She was a spokeswoman for the arts and served for twenty years on the New York State Council on the Arts.

Her mother took her to Europe hoping that she would marry into European royalty. She studyed at the Chateau Mont-Choisi in Lausanne, Switzerland, then at the Sorbonne and the London School of Economics. She studied acting in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Returning to New York in 1932, she appeared on Broadway and studied voice at Julliard. Her movies include Murder at the Vanites and A Night at the Opera with the Marx Brothers. She also appeared in two films with Bing Crosby.

Later in life Carlisle resumed her acting career appearing in Woody Allen’s Radio Days and Six Degress of Separation. In 2002 she played herself in a dramatizaiton of To Tell the Truth in the movie Catch Me If You Can.

Carlisle married playwright and producer Moss Hart in 1946. They remained married until his death in 1961. She never remarried.

Carlisle died on April 17, 2007. She was 96.
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