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Interview with Kitty Carlisle Hart

Title
Interview with Kitty Carlisle Hart [videorecording] / [Video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.
Publication
New York, c2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Carlisle, Kitty, 1910-2007
  • Lindstrom, Pia
  • Davis, Jacqueline Z. (Jacqueline Zurat), 1946-
  • Slaughter, Harriet
  • Robins, Isobel
  • Hoffman, Patrick.
  • League of Professional Theatre Women.
  • Character Generators/Video.
  • New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
Description
2 videocassettes (66 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 3/4 in. (U-matic)
Summary
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
Oral History with Kitty Carlisle Hart
Subjects
Genre/Form
Interviews.
Note
  • 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)
  • Introductory remarks: Jacqueline Z. Davis, Harriet Slaughter, and Isobel Robins.
  • Interviewed by Pia Lindstrom.
Event (note)
  • 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)
  • Recorded with the financial assistance of the League of Professional Theatre Women.
Call Number
NCOW 257
OCLC
NYPG03-F9
Title
Interview with Kitty Carlisle Hart [videorecording] / [Video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.
Imprint
New York, c2002.
Performer
Introductory remarks: Jacqueline Z. Davis, Harriet Slaughter, and Isobel Robins.
Interviewed by Pia Lindstrom.
Event
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
Recorded with the financial assistance of the League of Professional Theatre Women.
Added Author
Carlisle, Kitty, 1910-2007, interviewee.
Lindstrom, Pia, interviewer.
Davis, Jacqueline Z. (Jacqueline Zurat), 1946- speaker.
Slaughter, Harriet, speaker.
Robins, Isobel, speaker.
Hoffman, Patrick.
League of Professional Theatre Women.
Character Generators/Video.
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
Research Call Number
NCOW 257
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