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Actress Kitty Carlisle Hart Dies at 96



NEW YORK — Kitty Carlisle Hart, whose long career spanned Broadway, opera, television and film, including the classic Marx Brothers movie "A Night at the Opera," has died at age 96, her son said Wednesday.

Christopher Hart said his mother had been in and out of the hospital since contracting pneumonia over the Christmas holidays.

She had been touring around the country in her one-woman show "Here's to Life" until getting sick.

David Lewis, her longtime musical director, said: "The show was about everyone she had known: Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and her wonderful relationship with her husband, Moss Hart."

Lewis said when he once asked her "why she would attend events every single night of her life, and dress up and be the grand dame Kitty Carlisle Hart, she said that the grim reaper was lapping at her feet. She had to outpace him."

A December appearance in Atlanta was her last, her son said.

Hart had appeared for years on the popular game show "To Tell the Truth" as a celebrity panelist.

The entertainer was also a tireless advocate for the arts, serving 20 years on the New York State Council on the Arts. In 1991, she received the National Medal of Arts from the first President Bush.

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