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[Interview with Kitty Carlisle Hart : raw footage]

Title
[Interview with Kitty Carlisle Hart : raw footage] [videorecording] / [directed by Michael Kantor] ; Ghost Light Films.
Publication
New York, 1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Carlisle, Kitty, 1910-2007
  • Kantor, Michael, 1961-
  • Squires, Buddy
  • Ghost Light Films.
  • Broadway Film Project, Inc, donor.
  • Thirteen/WNET, donor.
Description
2 videocassettes (VHS) (92 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.
Summary
Raw interview footage used for the documentary Broadway, the American musical. Singer and actress Kitty Carlisle Hart discusses the American theater and its many luminaries with whom she was associated. Topics of discussion include her experience performing in Vaudeville; her first Broadway role in the musical Champange, sec, based on Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss; composers George Gershwin and Jerome Kern; her late husband, playwright and director Moss Hart; Tamiment, a camp in which theater professionals wrote and produced plays during the summer; Kern and Moss Hart's work habits; Moss Hart's play Lady in the dark, among the first to address psychoanalysis; writer George S. Kaufman, and his collaboration with Moss Hart; composer Cole Porter, and performing in his play Kiss me, Kate; composer Frederick Loewe, and his musical My fair lady starring Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews; composer Irving Berlin; touring with the show Three waltzes; her friendship with theatrical producer and director George Abbott; how the Broadway musical has changed since her career began; the possibilities of reviving older theatrical comedies for the stage, and for capturing the musical theater on film; Moss Hart's direction of the play Camelot; the significance of theater in her life; Broadway songstress Ethel Merman; Sardi's Restaurant; the origin of Tin Pan Alley.
Alternative Title
  • Broadway, the American musical
  • Hart interview: Broadway film project
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Documentaries and factual works.
  • Musicals.
  • Unedited footage.
Note
  • Videos run approx. 46 min. each.
  • This interview forms part of a group of interviews with 90 individuals used in making the documentary Broadway, the American musical. The completed production is available on NCOX 2058.
  • Credits for completed production from pbs.org: A film by Michael Kantor ; produced by Jeff Dupre, Michael Kantor and Sally Rosenthal ; written by Marc Fields, Michael Kantor, Laurence Maslon, and JoAnne Young ; directed by Michael Kantor.
  • Time code on frame.
  • Contains various takes; at occasional, brief intervals the audio continues without image.
Credits (note)
  • Cameraman: Buddy Squires.
Performer (note)
  • Interviewer: Michael Kantor. Interviewee: Kitty Carlisle Hart.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped at Kitty Carlisle Hart's residence in New York, N.Y. on Jan. 29, 1997.
Biography (note)
  • Broadway, the American musical, which aired on PBS in October 2004, is a documentary chronicling the entire history of the Broadway musical. Each of its six episodes covers a different era in American theater history, and features the Broadway shows and songs which defined the period. The series draws on feature films, television broadcasts, archive news footage, original cast recordings, still photos, diaries, journals, first-person accounts, and on-camera interviews with many of the principals involved in the development of the genre.
Call Number
NCOX 2093
OCLC
85838693
Title
[Interview with Kitty Carlisle Hart : raw footage] [videorecording] / [directed by Michael Kantor] ; Ghost Light Films.
Imprint
New York, 1997.
Credits
Cameraman: Buddy Squires.
Performer
Interviewer: Michael Kantor. Interviewee: Kitty Carlisle Hart.
Event
Videotaped at Kitty Carlisle Hart's residence in New York, N.Y. on Jan. 29, 1997.
Biography
Broadway, the American musical, which aired on PBS in October 2004, is a documentary chronicling the entire history of the Broadway musical. Each of its six episodes covers a different era in American theater history, and features the Broadway shows and songs which defined the period. The series draws on feature films, television broadcasts, archive news footage, original cast recordings, still photos, diaries, journals, first-person accounts, and on-camera interviews with many of the principals involved in the development of the genre.
Local Note
Gift of Broadway Film Project, Inc. and Thirteen/WNET, 2005.
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Added Author
Carlisle, Kitty, 1910-2007, interviewee.
Kantor, Michael, 1961- interviewer.
Kantor, Michael, 1961- director.
Squires, Buddy, cameraman.
Ghost Light Films.
Broadway Film Project, Inc, donor.
Thirteen/WNET, donor.
Research Call Number
NCOX 2093
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