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Condizione: Fine. New York, (October 8), 1985., 1985. Fine. - Over 30 words penned on her embossed 4-1/8 inch high by 6-1/8 inch wide personal postcard stock. The actress, Kitty Carlisle, thanks her good friend City Center producer Jean Dalrymple "What a good friend you are! I will follow the prescription to the letter, & pray that its [sic] not too late!!" Signed "Kitty". The card is addressed in her hand on the verso and postmarked from New York on October 8, 1985. Fine. Inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1999, Kitty Carlisle Hart (1910-2007) was an American stage & screen actress, opera singer, and television personality. A spokesperson for the arts, she served on the New York State Council for the Arts for 20 years. Kitty Carlisle played the leading lady opposite Groucho in the Marx Brothers movie "A Night at the Opera" and regularly appeared on "To Tell the Truth". Jean Dalrymple (1902-1998) was the dynamic producer and director of theater and light-opera at Manhattan's City Center. Dalrymple began her career in Vaudeville, appearing with James Cagney and Cary Grant in the early 1930s. She was a founding member of the American Theatre Wing, the theatre service organization. She worked over the years as a personal manager for the likes of Leopold Stokowski, Mary Martin, Jose Iturbi, Andre Kostalanetz, Nathan Milstein, and Lily Pons. She began her work at City Center with its founding in 1943, serving as a board member, producer, and publicist. Her productions there from the 1940s through the 1960s were a revitalizing influence on the whole New York theatre scene. In 1951, Jean Dalrymple married Major-General Philip deWitt Ginder, commander of the Thunderbirds in Korea. She was a friend to Presidents and entertainment personalities throughout the world.