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Moss Hart. A distinguished librettist, director, and playwright who was particularly renowned for his work with George S. Kaufman. Hart is reported to have written the book for the short-lived ...
Moss Hart: A Prince of the Theatre : a Biography in Three Acts. Moss Hart. : Jared Brown. Back Stage Books, 2006 - Performing Arts - 452 pages. • The author is the first person outside the family to have access to Hart’s diary. • Dozens of never-before-published photos—many from his family. • Written with the consent and cooperation ...
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 ...
May 13, 2001 · Laughing Man. By Gary Giddins. May 13, 2001. At the time of his death, in 1961, Moss Hart was one of Broadway's benevolent mandarins—admired, ubiquitous, well liked, and known far beyond Times ...
Biography: Moss Hart was born on October 24, 1904, in a tenement on 105th street in New York, New York, to Barnett Hart and Lillie Solomon Hart. He married actress Kitty Carlisle on August 10, 1946, with whom he had two children, Christopher and Cathy. Hart began his career as a playwright in 1924, working under traveling producer Gus 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.
Apr 16, 2014 · Though Moss Hart liked to joke that he was born on "the wrong end" of Fifth Avenue, he was actually born in a tenement at 74 E. 105th Street in 1904, growing up in "an atmosphere of unrelieved ...
