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Theatrical News
19/4/07 06:42The Good: we have scored tickets to see Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf next week! I am beaucoup happy.
The Sad: Kitty Carlisle Hart has died. I knew her, basically, from A Night at the Opera and the night time quiz shows of my yout' like "To Tell the Truth" and "What's My Line." I knew she'd been married to playwright and director Moss Hart, and that she'd been something of a fixture on the New York State Arts Council But (and this is why I love obituaries--you find out the interesting stuff) there was more to her story:
Isn't that like something out of Titanic? Only without the water and the narsty fiancé? Everyone's life is a novel.
The Sad: Kitty Carlisle Hart has died. I knew her, basically, from A Night at the Opera and the night time quiz shows of my yout' like "To Tell the Truth" and "What's My Line." I knew she'd been married to playwright and director Moss Hart, and that she'd been something of a fixture on the New York State Arts Council But (and this is why I love obituaries--you find out the interesting stuff) there was more to her story:
As a young girl she was taken around the capitals of Europe by her mother, Hortense Conn, whose ambition was to establish her daughter in a “brilliant” marriage, preferably to a prince. There were piano lessons, voice lessons and a grounding in the dramatic arts.
When a royal husband did not materialize, Miss Carlisle recalled, her mother would tell her, “You’re not the prettiest girl I ever saw, and you’re not the best singer I ever heard, and you’re certainly not the best actress I ever hoped to see, but if we put them all together, we’ll find the husband we’re looking for on the stage.”
Isn't that like something out of Titanic? Only without the water and the narsty fiancé? Everyone's life is a novel.