Moss Hart
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Moss Hart 1904-61, American dramatist, b. New York City, studied at Columbia. His first important play, Once in a Lifetime (1930), marked the beginning of a long collaboration with George S. Kaufman . Among their other successful comedies are Merrily We Roll Along (1934), You Can't Take It with You (1936; Pulitzer Prize), I'd Rather Be Right (1937, written with George M. Cohan ), The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939), and George Washington Slept Here (1940). Hart also collaborated on musicals with Irving Berlin and Cole Porter , and his most successful musical, Lady in the Dark (1941), was written with Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin . Among his plays, produced between 1941 and 1952, are Winged Victory, Christopher Blake, Light Up the Sky, and The Climate of Eden. Hart also directed several 1940s film comedies and wrote the 1952 screen hit Hans Christian Andersen. In 1956 he returned to Broadway as director of the long-running musical hit My Fair Lady.
Bibliography: See his autobiographical Act One (1959); biography by S. Bach (2001).
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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008
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Moss Hart biography lights up dreary season.(Time Out!)
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; Byline: Jack Helbig The weeks during and just after the holidays are the slowest months of the year for Chicagoland theater and the only time I really can catch up on my reading. This year I read a biography about playwright Moss Hart ( You Can't Take it With You, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Lady
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`Dazzler: The Life and Times of Moss Hart,' by Steven Bach; Knopf.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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; Playwright-director Moss Hart, a witty, dandified spendthrift with a Pulitzer Prize and a seventh-grade education, was nothing if not complicated and contradictory. He was a confirmed bachelor _ once code for a man of ambiguous or discreetly gay sexuality _ who married actress Kitty Carlisle and
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Thesp was gameshow staple.(Kitty Carlisle Hart, opera singer died)(Obituary)
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Hart Says His Judgement, Not Conduct Was Flawed; Many Supporters Keep Own Counsel
The Washington Post; 5/6/1987; Bill Peterson; T.R. Reid; 787 words
; ... fatal, but the patient doesn't seem dead yet," said Rep. David Nagel (D-Iowa), a former state Democratic chairman there. An ABC News poll Monday night found Hart's lead over the pack seeking the Democratic presidential nomination has dropped 10 points since ...
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Arts: Living voice of a golden past At 89, the stage and screen legend Kitty Carlisle Hart is still treading the boards in an eternal summertime. By David Benedict
The Independent - London; 11/27/1999; David Benedict; 787 words
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