Kitty Carlisle

Kitty Carlisle ( Catherine Conn actually; born September 3, 1910 in New Orleans, Louisiana, † April 17, 2007 in New York City ) was an American singer, stage and film actress.

Life

Kitty Carlisle was born Catherine Conn as the daughter of a German-born Jews in New Orleans. Her father, Joseph Conn, was a physician and her mother, Hortense Holtzman gave private lessons in singing. Her grandfather was the first Jewish mayor of Shreveport. As of the 1921 Carlisle went to the boarding Chateau Mont- Choisi in Lausanne, then to the Sorbonne in Paris and it to the London School of Economics and Political Science, London. After studying at the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London in 1932, she went back to the United States.

In New York, she starred on Broadway in several operettas and musical comedies, among her former stage name Kitty Vere de Vere. Among the highlights in Kitty Carlisle's career was in 1935 a major role in the Marx Brothers film "A Night At The Opera ". Her film career began a year ago with Murder at the Vanities (1934 ). Later she played alongside Bing Crosby in She Loves Me Not (1934 ) and Here Is My Heart ( 1934). After numerous operas and Broadway performances over three decades it stood in 1987 in Woody Allen's Radio Days again in front of the movie camera. Along with Will Smith and Donald Sutherland in 1993, she played in the drama Life - Six Degrees with.

More than 20 years Carlisle sat down as Chair of the Arts Committee of the State of New York for the Performing Arts, before she died of pneumonia in New York.

Family

On August 10, 1946 Kitty Carlisle married in New York screenwriter Moss Hart ( 1904-1961 ), having previously rejected marriage proposals of composer George Gershwin and author Norman Krasna. From the couple's marriage two children were born. Her husband died on December 20, 1961 of a heart attack in Palm Springs and was in Hartsdale, New York, buried.

Awards

In 1991 Kitty Carlisle cultural activities with the National Medal of Arts (National Medal of the Arts) was honored at the White House in Washington for their achievements in the field. The award was made ​​by President George W. Bush personally in the Oval Office.

Kitty Carlisle received a star on the Walk of Fame.