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Issue Number 571
June 2023
“When I die, I want you to play “The Man I Love” i my key at the memorial service, and if I don’t walk out on that stage, you’ll know I’m dead.”
Wearing a cloak of many stylish colors, KITTY CARLISLE (1910-2007) was a musical ingenue, operatic singer, Broadway lead, radio vocalist, recording artist, lecturer, socialite, philanthropist, patron of the arts, fashion maven and game show icon. Following her an education and mezzo soprano training in Europe, she first gained modest notice on Broadway before attempting a few musical films, including the singing ingenue in the Marx Brothers classic A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (1935). Best known for her florid presence on the game show TO TELL THE TRUTH (1957-1978), the widow of esteemed playwright Moss Hart became an avid political spokesperson for the arts in later years.
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All Film Articles
- WILLIAM WELLMAN: A Daughter’s Prospective
- FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW: Boy Wonder
- RICHARD CROMWELL: Pre-Code Heartthrob
- MARTHA RAYE : Send in the Clown
- TAB HUNTER: Sigh Guy
- STEVE COCHRAN: Life on the Edge
- WILLIAM HOPPER: Out of the Shadows
- MICHAEL CALLAN: Dancing Teen Idol
- KITTY CARLISLE: Straight from the Hart
- LEE PATRICK: I Never Wanted to Be a Star
- WILLIAM FRAWLEY: Diamond in the Gruff
- GERALDINE PAGE: Eccentricities of a ‘Method’ Actress
- GIA SCALA: More Than a Beautiful Face
- ANN ROBINSON: Just a Girl from Hollywood
- JAMES DUNN: Irish Charmer
- NEVA PATTERSON: Liberated Lady
- CHRISTOPHER RIORDAN: An Unorthodox Career
- PIER ANGELI: Little Garbo
- KATHLEEN HUGHES: Bad, Blonde and Beautiful
- GIG YOUNG: Master Farceur
- RICHARD TYLER: Problem Child, Successful Adult
- ARON KINCAID: Tall, Blond and Beachworthy
- MERCEDES McCAMBRIDGE: No Mercy
- JOHN HARRON: Fame and Misfortune
- ROBERT HARRON: Fame and Misfortune
- GIGI PERREAU: The Major Little Minor
- BETTY FIELD: Bicoastal Actress
- PEGGY WEBBER: Marvelous Maven of Radio Theatre
- BUDDY EBSEN: To Dad with Love
- BILLY GRAY: Little Rascal
- BARBARA BATES: All About Barbara
- CARLETON CARPENTER: ALL-AMERICAN INNOCENCE
- PAUL DOUGLAS: Brute Appeal
- JOANNA BARNES: Belying the Big Chill
- CYNTHIA PEPPER: The “Camelot” Blonde
- WILLIAM TALMAN: Film Menace
- PETER LAWFORD: Swinging on a Star
- FRANCHOT TONE: The “Millionaire” Star
- ANITA LOUISE: Depression Era Dreamgirl
- SCOTT BRADY: The Fighting Irishman
- KAYE BALLARD: The Songs and the Laughs Are On Me
- RUTH ROMAN: All Woman
- HOPE HOLIDAY: Wild and Wilder
- TOMMY COOK: Radio’s ‘Golden Boy’
- JACKIE JOSEPH: Puttin’ on the Ditz
- INGER STEVENS: Wounded Butterfly
- ALICE PEARCE: Beauty Inside