Remembering Miss Kitty Carlisle

Kitty Carlisle September 3, 1910 - April 17, 2007

Catherine Conn aka Kitty Carlisle and Kitty Carlisle Hart was an actress of stage and screen and singer who frequented the game show circuit dressed to the nines when I was a boy.

She is best remembered as a regular panelist on the television game show To Tell the Truth from 1956 through 1978.

Among the other programs to be seen on the black and white televisions of that era were Password, Match Game, Missing Links, and What's My Line? and I saw most of these regularly in my pursuit of after hours entertainment at home.

She was typically upbeat, pleasant, witty, and urbane and had an easy smile — simply the perfect game show contestant who could garner interest in what she was all about while delving into the topic before her and the television camera.

She was on the New York State Council on the Arts for 20 years and luckily did not live to see her beloved New York City suffer at the hands of an elected libtard democrat governor and mayor as it has declined in this day.

She was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1991 and became inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1999.

Kitty Carlisle passed on April 17, 2007, from prolonged pneumonia secondary to congestive heart failure in her Upper East Side Manhattan apartment, with her son at her bedside.

She is interred at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York next to her late husband Moss Hart.
Rest in peace.