Kitty Carlisle: A Night at the Opera Actress and Arts Champion Dies at 9

Kitty Carlisle Hart was an American actress, singer and arts advocate. Born Catherine Conn on September 3, 1910, in New Orleans, she studied in Europe.

She was the leading lady in the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera (1935) and a regular panelist on the game show To Tell the Truth from 1956 to 1978. She chaired the New York State Council on the Arts from 1976 to 1996 and received the National Medal of Arts in 1991.

She married playwright and director Moss Hart in 1946, and they had two children. Hart died in 1961. Carlisle died of congestive heart failure after pneumonia at her Manhattan apartment on April 17, 2007, at age 96.

Achievements: National Medal of Arts (1991), chair of the NY State Council on the Arts (1976-1996).

Birth: September 3, 1910 - New Orleans, Louisiana.

Profession: Actress and singer.

Interesting Facts: She appeared in A Night at the Opera opposite the Marx Brothers.