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- Carrie DeMar was a retired vaudeville performer and the widow of Joseph Hart. She entered a Catholic order in 1950.
Miss De Mar first appeared in David Henderson's extravaganza company at the Chicago opera house. Then she played one of the Duchess' daughters in Adonis. In 1891, when she was still in her teens, she joined the company of Hallen and Hart and began to appear in musicals staged by this company.
She toured the United States and Europe for many years and was given credit for the vogue of changing her costume and set with each song. She was a singer and a comedienne. She appeared in "Foxy Grandpa" which opened February 17, 1902 and played for 120 performances at the 14th street theater. She also appeared in "Mama's Papa" with Joseph Hart.
She married Joseph Hart on August 1, 1892 on a Wednesday at the home of Mr. Hart's sister - Mrs. Robert Duncan in St. Nicholas Avenue in Manhattan.
Miss De Mar had two sisters, Estelle and Fleurette. Fleurette was a dancer and appeared with her sister in a number of shows, including "Foxy Grandpa" in which she had a solo dance number. In 1915, Carrie and Joseph Hart bought a house in Woodcliffe, New Jersey which was next to Fleurette's home. An article in the N.Y. Star in March 1915 quoted the sisters as saying "their happiness will be supreme when they can touch hands and exchange recipes from their back windows." A clipping from the "Broadway Weekly" indicates that the Harts had a summer home at Sullivan Lake.
According to her obituary, Carrie retired from active stage work around 1918. Her husband Joseph Hart died on October 4, 1921 at the age of 59. She lived at the Waldorf Astoria hotel for a number of years. She later moved to an apartment at 1492 Minford Place in the Bronx which was owned by her sister Estelle's husband Arthur Schell. Her sister Fleurette also had an apartment in the same house. She lived there until the death of Arthur Schell in 1947. At that time, she moved and was not heard from again until her obituary appeared in Variety in 1963.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Harold Sandler
- SpouseJoseph Hart(1899 - October 3, 1921) (his death)
- "...she entered a Catholic order in 1950," according to Variety.
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