Brodway actress Kitty Carlisle Hart dies at 96 · 2007-04-19 15:20
Actress Kitty Carlisle Hart died from heart failure at her New York home on Tuesday.
The 96-year-old artist, widow of legendary Broadway theater playwright and director Moss Hart, to whom she was married from 1946 until his death in 1961, began her career in the theater in the 1932 musical comedy "Rio Rita" on Broadway.
The first motion picture she performed in was “Murder at the Vanities” in 1934. The following year she appeared in “A Night at the Opera,” in which she sang.
“I'm more optimistic, more enthusiastic and I have more energy than ever before,” she said just after her 79th birthday.
After she turned 95, Hart hit the stage in a cabaret show, interspersing 15 songs with anecdotes about Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin and George Gershwin, among others she knew. The show, called "Here’s to Life," received warm reviews in New York and San Francisco, Playfuls reported.
“I wasn’t the prettiest girl you ever saw, I wasn’t the finest singer; but with a bit of courage and dash of self- discipline, a small talent can go a long, long way,” Hart wrote in her autobiography.
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