---
name: "Kitty Carlisle"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kitty-carlisle"
fi1m_id: "kitty-carlisle"
imdb_id: "nm0137634"
tmdb_id: 121019
wikidata_id: "Q433459"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "3 September 1910"
died: "17 April 2007"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T02:15:15.795487+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Kitty Carlisle

## Identity

Kitty Carlisle

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kitty-carlisle
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kitty-carlisle
- **IMDb ID:** nm0137634
- **TMDB ID:** 121019
- **Wikidata ID:** Q433459
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Carlisle, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q433459, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0137634/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/121019

Actor. Born 3 September 1910 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Died 17 April 2007.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 3 September 1910, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- **Died:** 17 April 2007
- **Also known as:** Catherine Conn, Kitty Carlisle Hart
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Carlisle, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q433459, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0137634/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/121019

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*A Night at the Opera*](https://film.one/film/a-night-at-the-opera.md) (84)

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## Biography

Kitty Carlisle Hart, also credited as Kitty Carlisle and born Catherine Conn, was an American actress and singer. She made her Broadway debut in 1933 in the musical *Champagne Sec* and appeared in several films in the mid-1930s, including the Marx Brothers comedy *A Night at the Opera* (1935), in which she played Rosa.

She also featured in *She Loves Me Not* (1934) and *Here Is My Heart* (1934) alongside Bing Crosby. Later in her career she appeared in *Radio Days* (1987), *Six Degrees of Separation* (1993) and *Catch Me If You Can* (2002). She was a regular panelist on the television game show *To Tell the Truth* from 1956 to 1977 and served for twenty years on the New York State Council on the Arts. In 1946 she married playwright Moss Hart; she died in New York in 2007.

*Sources: imdb.com, projects.latimes.com, nytimes.com, ibdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *A Night at the Opera* (1935), Fi1m 84, as Rosa — [page](https://film.one/film/a-night-at-the-opera.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Catch Me If You Can* (2002), as Kitty Carlisle — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/catch-me-if-you-can.md)
- *Six Degrees of Separation* (1993), as Mrs. Bannister
- *Kojak: Flowers For Matty* (1990), as Porter
- *Tattingers* (1988), series, Actor
- *Radio Days* (1987), as Radio Singer
- *Holiday* (1956), as Adele Brinton
- *Larceny with Music* (1943), as Pamela Mason
- *A Night at the Opera* (1935), as Rosa — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/a-night-at-the-opera.md)
- *Here Is My Heart* (1934), as Princess Alexandra
- *She Loves Me Not* (1934), as Midge Mercer
- *Murder at the Vanities* (1934), as Ann Ware

## Gallery

- ![Kitty Carlisle Actress Kennedy center awards Washington dc.2000 © copyright John Mathew Smith 2001 (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/3856363/gallery-6e88cce58750.jpg) Kitty Carlisle Actress Kennedy center awards Washington dc.2000 © copyright John Mathew Smith 2001 (2010) — Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel  Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Kitty_Carlisle_2000_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Kitty_Carlisle_2000_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Kitty Carlisle in Die Fledermaus, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, November 1, 1933](https://film.one/media/person/3856363/gallery-2f0ef5050601.jpg) Kitty Carlisle in Die Fledermaus, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, November 1, 1933 — Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Kittycarlisle.jpg/1280px-Kittycarlisle.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Kitty Carlisle](https://film.one/media/person/3856363/gallery-a61b20218412.jpg) Kitty Carlisle — Image via TMDB
- ![Kitty Carlisle](https://film.one/media/person/3856363/gallery-57133beeb3e5.jpg) Kitty Carlisle — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Award 1993: Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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