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George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart in 1937. After working several years as a director of amateur theatrical groups and an entertainment director at summer resorts, he scored his first Broadway hit with Once in a Lifetime (1930), a farce about the arrival of the sound era in Hollywood. The play was written in collaboration with Broadway veteran ...
May 30, 2012 · Moss Hart was one of Broadway’s most successful creators, penning such hits as You Can't Take It With You and The Man Who Came to Dinner, and directing Camelot. He counted Cole Porter, Irving ...
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Moss Hart (born Oct. 24, 1904, New York City—died Dec. 20, 1961, Palm Springs, Calif., U.S.) was one of the most successful U.S. playwrights of the 20th century. At 17 Hart obtained a job as office boy for the theatrical producer Augustus Pitou. He wrote his first play at 18, but it was a flop. He then worked as director of amateur theatre ...
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Moss Hart. Writer: You Can't Take It with You. Tony Award-winning American playwright/lyricist Moss Hart was born Oct. 24, 1904, in New York City to a poor Jewish family and raised in what he described as a "drab tenement" on 107th St. in the Bronx. He was educated in the city public school system. He showed a knack for writing at an early age--he wrote his first play at age...
- October 24, 1904
- December 20, 1961
Oct 11, 2012 · Since 1959, acclaimed playwright Moss Hart’s Act One has inspired theater buffs, morphing from a best-selling memoir to a Hollywood film to an upcoming stage production. Despite Hart’s dark ...
Moss Hart. A distinguished librettist, director, and playwright who was particularly renowned for his work with George S. Kaufman. ... BROADWAY: THE AMERICAN MUSICAL Online is a production of ...
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May 4, 2001 · Dazzler: The Life and Times of Moss Hart by Steven Bach (Alfred A. Knopf, 416 pages, $27.50) is a vigorous literary performance that sparkles as brightly as its subject. Bach, former head of ...
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