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Act One An Autobiography Paperback - 1989

by Hart, Moss


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The Dramatic Story that Capitvated a Generation

With this new edition, the classic best-selling autobiography by the late playwright Moss Hart returns to print in the thirtieth anniversary of its original publication. Issued in tandem with "Kitty," the revealing autobiography of his wife, Kitty Carlisle Hart, " Act One," is a landmark memoir that incluenced a generation of theatergoers, dramatists, and general book readers everywhere. The book eloquently chronicles Moss Hart's impoverished childhood in the Bronx and Brooklyn and his long, determined struggle to his first theatreical Broadway success, "Once in a Lifetime." One of the most celebrated American theater books of the twentieth centure and a glorious memorial to a bygone age, "Act One" if filled with all the wonder, drama, and heartbreak that surrounded Broadway in the 1920s and the years before World War II.

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he was in a rage or fit of depression he would punish my grandmother by not reading for days and sometimes weeks at a time and would sit evening after evening without uttering a word. There would be silence throughout the evening meal and complete silence afterward, for he would talk to no one and would allow no word to be spoken by his wife or daughters.

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  • Title Act One An Autobiography
  • Author Hart, Moss
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Later Printing
  • Pages 456
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martin's Griffin, New York
  • Date October 15, 1989
  • ISBN 9780312032722

About the author

Born in New York City in 1904, Moss Hart began his career as a playwright in 1925 with The Hold-Up Man, yet archieved his first major success in the 1930 collaboration with George S. Kaufman, " Once in a Lifetime." In addition to numerous Broadway productions, such as" The Man Who Came to Dinne"r and" You Can't Take it With You," which was awared the Pulitzer Price in 1938, Hart wrote screenplays for "Gentleman's Agreement" and "A Star is Born." Moss Hart also gained universal recognition for his award-winning direction of "My Fair Lady "in 1956.

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