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Moss Hart (October 24, 1904 – December 20, 1961) was an American playwright, librettist, and theater director. Early years. Hart was born in New York City, the son of Lillian (Solomon) and Barnett Hart, a cigar maker. [1] [2] He had a younger brother, Bernard. [3] .
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...
- Meryl Gordon
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
- 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.
May 4, 2001 · Charles Wright reviews the new biography of MOSS HART, one of the most colorful and talented figures in American theater history. New York City. May 4, 2001. Moss Hart blitzed Depression-era...
Jun 11, 2018 · Moss Hart [1], 1904–61, American dramatist, b. New York [2] City, studied at Columbia. His first important play, Once in a Lifetime (1930), marked the beginning of a long collaboration with George S. Kaufman [3].
