NEW YORK – “To Tell the Truth” star Kitty Carlisle Hart, whose long career spanned Broadway, opera, television and film, including the classic Marx Brothers movie “A Night at the Opera,” has died at age 96, her son said Wednesday.
Christopher Hart said his mother had been in and out of the hospital since contracting pneumonia around Christmas.
“She passed away peacefully” Tuesday night at her Manhattan apartment, said Hart, who was at her side when she died. “She had such a wonderful life, and a great long run, it was a blessing.”
She had been touring around the country in her one-woman show “Here’s to Life” until falling ill. A December appearance in Atlanta was her last, her son said.
Hart had appeared for years on the popular game show “To Tell the Truth” as a celebrity panelist.
The entertainer was also a tireless advocate for the arts, serving 20 years on the New York State Council on the Arts. In 1991, she received the National Medal of Arts from the first President Bush.
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