Kitty Carlisle
Catherine Conn (September 3, 1910 – April 17, 2007), better known professionally as Kitty Carlisle and also billed as Kitty Carlisle Hart, was an American stage and screen actress, singer and spokeswoman for the arts. She is best remembered as a regular panelist on the television game show To Tell the Truth. She 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. She was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1999.
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| Full name at birth | Catherine Conn
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| Claim to fame | A Night at the Opera
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| Date of birth | 3 September 1910
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| Place of birth | New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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| Date of death | 17 April 2007
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| Age | 96 (age at death)
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| Place of death | Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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| Cause of death | Heart Failure
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| Resting place | Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, New York
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| Occupation | Actress, Singer, TV Personality
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![Kitty Carlisle - Picture Play Magazine Pictorial [United States] (December 1935)](http://img3.bdbphotos.com/images/130x130/t/7/t7hbpm90a2oymya.jpg?skj2io4l)
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![Kitty Carlisle - Picture Play Magazine Pictorial [United States] (April 1935)](http://img3.bdbphotos.com/images/130x130/8/a/8a8teak5q7b478kt.jpg?skj2io4l)
- Was the only panelist to appear on every version of "To Tell the Truth" from 1956-2002.
- 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.
- Daughter Catherine (born June 1950).
- Son Christopher Hart (III)` (born January 14, 1948).
- She was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 1991 by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C.
Kitty Carlisle is known for her role in the TV series To Tell the Truth (1956) as Self - Panelist / Self / Self - Guest celebrity.
She is also known for her role in the documentary Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2021) as Self.
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