Kitty Carlisle (also known as Kitty Carlisle Hart; September 3, 1910 – April 17, 2007) was an American singer, actress and spokeswoman for the arts. She is best remembered as a regular panelist on the television game show To Tell the Truth. Carlisle served 20 years on the New York State Council on the Arts. In 1991, she received the National Medal of Arts from President George H. W. Bush. Eight years later, in 1999, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
| Full Name | Roy Neuberger |
| Net Worth | $18 Million |
| Date Of Birth | September 3, 1910 |
| Died | December 24, 2010, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States |
| Place Of Birth | New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
| Occupation | Actress, singer, spokeswoman |
| Profession | Entrepreneur, Financier |
| Education | New York University |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Moss Hart |
| Nicknames | Kitty Carlisle, Carlisle, Kitty |
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| Star Sign | Virgo |
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| 1 | In a chat with Peggy Cass, a co-panelist on What's My Line?, referring to her husband Moss Hart, she said he loved to see me in red satin and diamonds. Oh, I would get all done up for him. |
| 2 | [on filming 'A Night at the Opera'] Groucho would come up to from time to time to ask me,'Is this funny?'' Then, totally deadpan, he'd try out the line. I'd say, 'No, I don't think it is funny', and he'd go away absolutely crushed and try it out on everyone else in the cast. Chico was always playing cards in the back room and had to be called on the set. Harpo would work well until about eleven o'clock. Then he'd stretch out on the nearest piece of furniture and start calling at the top of his voice, 'Lunchie! Lunchie!' |
| 3 | On time: Each morning I wake up and say, "Dear Lord, I don't want anything better; just send me more of the same." |
| 4 | My mother once said to me, 'Kitty, once you're past fifty, every fifteen minutes it's breakfast. |
| 5 | I think people today aren't learning as much as we did. They don't understand world politics, they really don't understand geography. They don't know where anything is. |
| 6 | "I never remarried. When you've had the best of it, why fiddle around? He was so wonderful. He was so witty and it was such fun to be with him. I loved it and I loved him." KC - referring to late husband Moss Hart. |
| 7 | [Celebrity] these days it's based on, how should I put it, vulgarity. We had standards and we didn't allow other people to debase our standards. It was a different time. |
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| 1 | She served as Chairman of the NYS Council on the Arts, under Governors (both Republican and Democratic), for twenty-years (1976-1996)and continued as Chairman Emeritus until her passing in 2007, and never accepted a salary for doing so. |
| 2 | Was a Girl Scout. |
| 3 | Was the first female guest replacement following the death of Dorothy Kilgallen on the What's My Line? (1950) panel in November of 1965. |
| 4 | Bought her Madison Avenue apartment in 1962 after the death of her husband, Moss Hart, for $100,000. As of July 2007, it's on the market for $12.5 million. |
| 5 | In 1970, she became romantically involved with former New York Governor and two-time Republican presidential candidate Thomas E. Dewey, and they spoke of marriage. However, Dewey died suddenly of a heart attack in early 1971. |
| 6 | A notorious fashion hound, she was an early patron of Scaasi. She claims she was "Scaasified" ever since the designer dressed her for the London opening of "My Fair Lady" in the late 1950s. |
| 7 | Her one-woman act in 2005 consists of anecdotes about the many great men in American musical theatre history that she has known, notably George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Kurt Weill, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein and Frederick Loewe, interspersed with a few of the songs that made each one famous. |
| 8 | In later years, she was linked romantically to financier and art collector Roy Neuberger. |
| 9 | Celebrated her 96th birthday with a gig at Michael Feinstein's New York hot spot "Feinstein's" at the Regency Hotel. |
| 10 | At 95, she claims she exercises every day, including floor exercises, the treadmill and swimming. |
| 11 | Met husband Moss Hart at a dinner party given by writer Lillian Hellman. |
| 12 | She was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 1991 by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C. |
| 13 | Son Christopher Hart (born on January 14, 1948). |
| 14 | Daughter Catherine (born June 1950). |
| 15 | Got her start at the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pennsylvania. The playhouse, once a grist mill (dating from the 1700s) was instrumental in turning the town into an arts center, way back when. |
| 16 | She was the only panelist to appear on every version of "To Tell the Truth" from 1956-2002, lasting 46 years. |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
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| Radio Days | 1987 | performer: "They're Either Too Young or Too Old" 1943 | |
| Hollywood Canteen | 1944 | performer: "Sweet Dreams, Sweetheart" 1944 | |
| Larceny with Music | 1943 | performer: "Only in Dreams", "Do Your Hear Music", "For The Want Of You" | |
| A Night at the Opera | 1935 | performer: "Il Trovatore: Miserere" 1853 uncredited, "Alone" 1935, "I Pagliacci: Strido lassu" 1892 uncredited | |
| She Loves Me Not | 1934 | performer: "STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER", "LOVE IN BLOOM" - uncredited | |
| Murder at the Vanities | 1934 | performer: "Ebony Rhapsody", "Where Do They Come From and Where Do They Go?", "Live and Love Tonight" | |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
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| American Masters | 1987-1990 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| Night of 100 Stars III | 1990 | TV Movie | Herself (as Kitty Carlisle Hart) |
| Bill Cosby Salutes Alvin Ailey | 1989 | TV Movie | Herself |
| Sally Jessy Raphael | 1989 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Movie Masters | 1989 | TV Series | Herself |
| CBS This Morning | 1988 | TV Series | Herself |
| Tattinger's | 1988 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Morning Exchange | 1988 | TV Series | Herself |
| Lerner and Loewe: Broadway's Last Romantics | 1988 | TV Movie | Herself (as Kitty Carlisle Hart) |
| The 1987 Annual Schweitzer Award Music Awards | 1987 | TV Special | Herself - Presenter |
| All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan | 1985 | TV Special | Herself |
| The 39th Annual Tony Awards | 1985 | TV Special | Herself - Accepting the Special Award to the N.Y. State Council on the Arts (as Kitty Carlisle Hart) |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1984 | TV Movie | Herself |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1980 | TV Special | Herself (as Kitty Carlisle Hart) |
| To Tell the Truth | 1980 | TV Series | Herself - Panelist (1980) |
| To Tell the Truth | 1975-1977 | TV Series | Herself - Panelist / Herselt - Panelist |
| To Tell the Truth | 1957-1968 | TV Series | Herself - Panelist |
| What's My Line? | 1963-1966 | TV Series | Herself - Panelist / Herself - Mystery Guest |
| I've Got a Secret | 1952-1966 | TV Series | Herself - Panelist / Herself - Celebrity Guest |
| The Merv Griffin Show | 1965 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Match Game | 1963-1964 | TV Series | Herself - Team Captain |
| Missing Links | 1963 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| Password All-Stars | 1961-1962 | TV Series | Herself / Panelist |
| The 33rd Annual Academy Awards | 1961 | TV Special | Herself - Co-Presenter: Writing Awards |
| The Jack Paar Tonight Show | 1959 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | 1959 | TV Series | Herself |
| Person to Person | 1959 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| What's Going On? | 1954 | TV Series | Herself / panelist |
| Who's There? | 1952 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| This Is Show Business | 1951 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Faye Emerson Show | 1950 | TV Series | Herself |
| Celebrity Time | 1950 | TV Series | Herself - Singer |
| Cavalcade of Stars | 1949 | TV Series | Herself |
| Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression | 2009 | Video documentary | Herself |
| Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | Herself (as Kitty Carlisle Hart) |
| The Powder & the Glory | 2007 | Documentary | Herself (as Kitty Carlisle Hart) |
| Theater Talk | 2007 | TV Series | Herself |
| Broadway: The American Musical | 2004 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Herself |
| Remarks on Marx | 2004 | Video short | Herself (as Kitty Carlisle Hart) |
| Complicated Women | 2003 | TV Movie documentary | Herself - Interviewee (as Kitty Carlisle Hart) |
| Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There | 2003 | Documentary | Herself |
| Catch Me If You Can | 2002 | | Herself (as Kitty Carlisle Hart) |
| Broadway Legends | 2002 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| Greta Garbo: A Lone Star | 2001 | TV Movie documentary | Herself (uncredited) |
| The Kennedys: The Curse of Power | 2000 | TV Movie documentary | Herself (as Kitty Carlisle Hart) |
| The Man Who Came to Dinner | 2000 | TV Movie | Herself - Interviewee (as Kitty Carlisle Hart) |
| To Tell the Truth | 2000 | TV Series | Herself / Guest Panelist |
| AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies | 2000 | TV Special documentary | Herself (as Kitty Carlisle Hart) |
| Biography | 2000 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| NY TV: By the People Who Made It - Part I & II | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| Great Performances | 1981-1998 | TV Series | Herself |
| Danny Kaye: Nobody's Fool | 1994 | TV Movie documentary | |
| The Howard Stern Show | 1991 | TV Series | Herself |
| To Tell the Truth | 1990 | TV Series | Herself - Panelist |
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