Spoiler : STILL one of the coolest autographs in my collection is when I wrote to Kitty Carlisle Hart and I sent her a scan of the lobby card of the Marx Brothers a Night at the Opera and she signed it, as well as sending me a more recent signed 8 by 10 both personalized to me. She sent it back signed within 4 days. She was in her early 90s then and still doing a part time nightclub act in New York City.

Spoiler : (birth name was Catherine Holzman, or Catherine Conn) Born in New Orleans, Louisiana 9/3/1915. Married to Moss Hart (1946-1961 his death). Educated in Paris and Rome. Singer-comediene in the 1933 Broadway musical Champagne. Screen debut with a cameo in Hollywood Canteen (1944), then All Star Musical Revue (1945). Last movie was playing Mrs Bannister in Six Degrees of Separation (1993).

Spoiler : From the 1930s she was a vocalist on radio programs including The Ben Bernie Show; The Ed Wynn Show; The General Motors Concert; Gulf Headliners; The Telephone Hour; The Voice of Firestone. Host of The Song Shop on CBS-Radio (1937-1938).

Spoiler : On television from the late 1940s to the early 1990s. Panelist on television programs including Celebrity Time (Celebrity Quiz) for ABC (1949-1950), CBS (1950-1952); Who's There? for CBS (1952); I've Got A Secret for CBS (1952-1953); What's Going On? for ABC (1954); To Tell The Truth for CBS (1956-1968), the syndicated series (1980), NBC-TV series (1990-1991), series in 2000 to 2002. In 2005, she was celebrating her 95th birthday performing in a one-woman cabaret act at Feinstein's at the Regency in New York City.

Spoiler : Happy birthday to Kitty Carlisle, born on September 3, 1910.