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Additional authors

1. Carlisle, Kitty, 1910-2007
2. Lindstrom, Pia
3. Davis, Jacqueline Z. (Jacqueline Zurat), 1946-
4. Slaughter, Harriet
5. Robins, Isobel
6. Hoffman, Patrick.
7. League of Professional Theatre Women.
8. Character Generators/Video.
9. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.

Description

1. 2 videocassettes (66 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 3/4 in. (U-matic)

Summary

1. Performer and arts advocate Kitty Carlisle Hart discusses her career with interviewer Pia Lindstrom, beginning with her Southern roots, education in Europe, and introduction to performing. Ms. Hart also speaks extensively about her late husband, playwright and director Moss Hart, and their many well known friends and colleagues, including George S. Kaufman, George Gershwin, Lillian Hellman, and the Marx Brothers, with whom Kitty co-starred in the 1935 film A night at the opera. Ms. Hart reminisces about her husband's experiences as director of the Broadway successes My fair lady and Camelot, and concludes by discussing her political work as an arts advocate since her husband's death.

Alternative title

1. Oral History with Kitty Carlisle Hart

Subject

1. Gershwin, George, 1898-1937 > Friends and associates
2. Hellman, Lillian, 1905-1984 > Friends and associates
3. Loewe, Frederick, 1901-1988 > Camelot
4. A night at the opera (Motion picture)
5. Interviews
6. Marx Brothers Friends and associates
7. Hart, Moss, 1904-1961 > Friends and associates
8. Loewe, Frederick, 1901-1988 > My fair lady
9. Motion picture industry > California > Los Angeles
10. Arts administrators > Interviews
11. Actresses > Interviews
12. Carlisle, Kitty, 1910-2007 > Interviews
13. Musical theater > New York (State) > New York
14. Kaufman, George S (George Simon), 1889-1961 > Friends and associates
15. Theater > New York (State) > New York

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.

Call number

1. NCOW 257

Note

1. Recorded at a meeting of the League of Professional Theatre Women. A question and answer session with audience members begins at 12:00 of the second cassette.

Performer (note)

1. Introductory remarks: Jacqueline Z. Davis, Harriet Slaughter, and Isobel Robins.
2. Interviewed by Pia Lindstrom.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the Bruno Walter Auditorium, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., March 19, 2002.

Funding (note)

1. Recorded with the financial assistance of the League of Professional Theatre Women.

Title

1. Interview with Kitty Carlisle Hart [videorecording] / [Video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.

Imprint

1. New York, c2002.

Performer

1. Introductory remarks: Jacqueline Z. Davis, Harriet Slaughter, and Isobel Robins.
2. Interviewed by Pia Lindstrom.

Event

1. Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the Bruno Walter Auditorium, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., March 19, 2002.

Funding

1. Recorded with the financial assistance of the League of Professional Theatre Women.

Added author

1. Carlisle, Kitty, 1910-2007, interviewee.
2. Lindstrom, Pia, interviewer.
3. Davis, Jacqueline Z. (Jacqueline Zurat), 1946- speaker.
4. Slaughter, Harriet, speaker.
5. Robins, Isobel, speaker.
6. Hoffman, Patrick.
7. League of Professional Theatre Women.
8. Character Generators/Video.
9. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.

Research call number

1. NCOW 257