Her mother, Hortense Holzman Conn, was eager for her daughter to be accepted by local society. ![]() Her father, Joseph Conn, MD, was a gynecologist who died when she was ten years old. He had been a gunner on the CSS Virginia, the Confederate ironclad warship that fought the USS Monitor at the Battle of Hampton Roads. Her grandfather, Ben Holzman, was the mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, and a Confederate veteran of the American Civil War. Kitty Carlisle was born as Catherine Conn (pronounced Cohen) in New Orleans, Louisiana, of German-Jewish heritage.
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