As the World Turns.

Kitty Carlisle Hart, actress, singer, and best known as a panelist on the long-running To Tell the Truth television program, has died at the ripe old age of 96.

Carlisle was in the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera playing the love interest of Allan Jones, father of singer Jack Jones, and who later became a dentist. Her musical scenes with Jones were a little overwrought, and I found myself having to skip those numbers in favor of the comedy.

Hart dreamed of marrying a prince, but unfortunately, she had to settle for the admiration of losers like playwright Norman Krasna (who later married Erle Jolson, widow of the legendary Al), songwriter George Gershwin, and financier Bernard Baruch, who wanted to ditch his old lady for her. Hart finally scraped the bottom of the barrel when she married playwright Moss Hart in 1946. He died in 1961.
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