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The memoir, a rags-to-riches story of a young playwright striving to make it in the theater, inspired generations of playwrights, directors and actors to seek a career in the theater. Born in 1904, Moss Hart was raised in the Bronx and Brooklyn and as a teenager worked as an office boy for the theatrical producer Augustus Pitou.
More than just an assessment of Hart’s career, this is a personal portrait as well, with frank discussions of Hart’s rumored bisexuality, his battles with anxiety and depression, and his marriage. This long-awaited biography, written with the full cooperation of Hart’s family and friends, is truly the definitive picture of a theatrical giant.
Jul 15, 2000 · Director Moss Hart took the dramatic step of dismissing the entire company for two days, and in a case of life imitating art, he went over her part line by line, dictating the interpretation.
Moss Hart. Moss Hart was an American playwright and director of plays and musical theater. Hart recalled his youth, early career and rise to fame in his autobiography, Act One, adapted to film in 1963, with George Hamilton portraying Hart. Hart grew up at 74 East 105th Street in Manhattan, "a neighborhood not of carriages and hansom cabs, but ...
Mar 5, 2009 · The year was 1930, a down one like this one. But for Moss Hart, it was the time for his particularly American moment of triumph. He had grown up poor in the outer boroughs of New York City ...
Moss Hart's Act One was published more than 50 years ago, but for his son, Christopher Hart, the new stage adaptation is not a belated dusting-off of material from long ago. As a producer and director, Chris Hart has had a steady relationship with his father's autobiography.
Sep 10, 2002 · MP3 CD. $35.61 2 New from $29.21. In the opinion of the publishers, act one is the warmest, most engrossing—and by far the most revealing—book about the theatre that they have ever encountered. It is, of course, a success story, for Moss Hart today is one of the most brilliant, successful and famous figures in the American theatre, both as ...
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