“After his first Broadway smash, Hart’s life morphed from the grim black-and-white of poverty to Technicolor.” Meryl Gordon I don’t recall the stock market crash of 1929 getting get mentioned in playwright/screenwriter Moss Hart’s autobiography Act One.. Perhaps because in 1929 he was in his 20s and had never had money in the first place. […]
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“Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can it make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted and indomitably secure with the certainty that this is the way life will be? It can and does.” Moss Hart My favorite scene in playwright/screenwriter Moss Hart’s autobiography Act One is […]
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“Very few plays are without faults of one kind or another, but few plays succeed with a bad last act. The best kind of fault for a play to have is first-act trouble, and the worst kind last-act trouble. An audience will forgive a slow or even weak first act, if the second act grows […]
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“Very few plays are without faults of one kind or another, but few plays succeed with a bad last act. The best kind of fault for a play to have is first-act trouble, and the worst kind last-act trouble. An audience will forgive a slow or even weak first act, if the second act grows […]
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The night before 26-year-old Moss Hart’s first play was to open on Broadway he was given $100 by the show’s producer Max Siegel. That was a lot of money back in 1930. After a late night final rehearsal for Once in a Lifetime, Siegel encouraged Hart to get a hotel room instead of traveling home […]
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Back in 1929 a young Moss Hart spent months working with the establish playwright George S. Kaufman on the play Once in a Lifetime. On its way to Broadway the play opened in Atlantic City with much laughter in the first half followed by a less than enthusiastic second half. They stayed up all night making […]
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Back in 1929 a young Moss Hart spent months working with the establish playwright George S. Kaufman on the play Once in a Lifetime. On its way to Broadway the play opened in Atlantic City with much laughter in the first half followed by a less than enthusiastic second half. They stayed up all night making […]
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“Poverty was always a living and evil thing to me.” Moss Hart (on his childhood in the Bronx and Brooklyn) Before Moss Hart become the wonder boy of Broadway at age 26, before be would buy a farmhouse on 87 acres in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and before he won a Pulitzer Prize in Drama, he […]
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“Poverty was always a living and evil thing to me.” Moss Hart (on his childhood in the Bronx and Brooklyn) Before Moss Hart become the wonder boy of Broadway at age 26, before be would buy a farmhouse on 87 acres in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and before he won a Pulitzer Prize in Drama, he […]
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“If it is true that no more eager disciple ever sat at the feet of a teacher, it is equally true that no disciple was ever treated with more infinite patience and understanding.” Moss Hart on his early collaboration with George S. Kaufman I forget who said “All disappointment comes from unmet expectations”—but that would […]
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