Oral history interview with Kitty Carlisle Hart, 1979
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- Name
- Carlisle, Kitty, 1910-2007 (Interviewee)
- Diamonstein-Spielvogel, Barbaralee (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Kitty Carlisle Hart, 1979
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Kitty Carlisle Hart, 1979
- Abstract
- Family background, childhood in New Orleans; role of mother, Hortense Holzmann, in professional and personal development; education, travel and romances in Europe, 1922-30; Royal Academy of Drama, 1931; musical and theatrical training; New York and Hollywood, 1932-78: shift from films to plays, musicals and nightclubs, 1936; television appearances, 1956-78; views on acting and stardom; marriage to Moss Hart, 1946-61: his family, personality, career and professional achievements; his autobiography, LADY IN THE DARK; children; Special Assistant to Governor Rockefeller on opportunities for Women; Chairman of New York Arts Council, 1971-78: budget issues; New York politics; friendships with Arthur Lyons, Sinclair Lewis, George Gershwin, Thomas E. Dewey; impressions of George S. Kaufman, Cole Porter, Judy Garland, Nelson and Happy Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, Lillian Hellman, Frank Sinatra and many others
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- Singers; Actresses; Motion pictures and music; Musicals; Music--Instruction and study; Theater; Television; New York (State) Politics and government 1951-; New York (State) Social life and customs; Carlisle, Kitty, 1910-2007; Hart, Moss, 1904-1961
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1979
- Physical Description
- 805 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Actress, singer; interviewee married Moss Hart
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
- Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit
- Interviewed by Barbaralee Diamonstein
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 6880207
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-wm9z-8s56
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.