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	Moss Hart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moss Hart (October 24, 1904 - December 20, 1961) was a Jewish-American playwright and director of plays and musical theater.
		Moss was obviously not entirely content with his life at home and even with his own appearance.
		Moss had his share of hard times in the form of flopped shows and deaths in the family, but by the late 1930s he was doing fairly well for himself.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moss_Hart (583 words)

	Encyclopedia: Moss Hart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Moss Hart, who was actor and director and playwright rolled into one, satisfied all such expectations in his best-selling memoir, ''Act One,'' which was published in 1959 (two years before his death) and tidied up considerably a ragged life, particularly in regard to an upbringing discolored by family rancor and madness.
		Hart was born in a tenement on East 105th Street in 1904, the son of a cigar maker.
		Hart was certainly a ''dazzler'' in style of life: at one point his Broadway and Hollywood earnings were supporting a 15-room apartment on Park Avenue and an 18th-century farmhouse in Bucks County, complete with swimming pool, tennis court and 12-foot-wide fireplace.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Moss-Hart (496 words)

	Books \| Dazzled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In Dazzler: The Life and Times of Moss Hart, Steven Bach breaks the news that Hart embellished his own story to such an extent that some scenes in Act One — like my personal favorite, the description of the disastrous opening night of his first professional play, The Beloved Bandit — are almost pure invention.
		Moss was self-taught; Kaufman had studied law and playwriting at Columbia.
		Moss was the ingratiating charmer, transparently eager to please.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/arts/books/documents/01761942.htm (561 words)

	The Art of Mrs. Hart by Marie Brenner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hart describes it, she was a juvenile Sancho Panza to her mother–as an eleven-year-old, she carried her mother’s heavy luggage off trains, so her mother could pretend to be an empress in exile with servants behind her; Kitty called for porters in five languages; she spot-cleaned and pressed her mother’s clothes.
		Moss Hart could command a room with his physical presence: he was a tall man with dark hair and Mephistophelian arched brows.
		In the winter of 1959, the Harts went to Jamaica with Phyllis and Bennett Cerf, and Leonora and her husband, Arthur Hornblow, the producer of "Witness for the Prosecution." It was a golden trip.
	www.mariebrenner.com /articles/hart/art2.html (3500 words)

	Moss Hart
		Hart's father was a cigar maker who lost his business when the mechanical cigar roller was invented, and his eccentric Aunt Kate began taking him out of school on Thursdays to accompany her to theatrical matinees.
		Hart eventually made several deep cuts to the show, and it became a hit.
		Moss Hart, who once said that all successful people in the theater came from an unhappy childhood, died in 1961.
	amsaw.org /amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-102403-mosshart.html (934 words)

	MSN Encarta - Moss Hart
		Moss Hart (1904-1961), American playwright and stage director, born in New York City.
		Through 1940 Kaufman and Hart together produced a series of comedies notable for witty dialogue and well-drawn, somewhat exaggerated characters.
		Hart was the sole author of the libretto for the musical comedy Lady in the Dark (1941), which he also directed, and his serious drama Christopher Blake (1946) won critical acclaim.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761560191/Moss_Hart.html (219 words)

	Pennsylvania Center for the Book : Literary Map of PA
		Moss Hart was born on October 24, 1904, in a tenement on 105th street in New York City to Barnett Hart and Lillie Solomon Hart.
		Hart's first comedy The Hold-up Man, which was re-titled The Beloved Bandit, was a flop, losing Pitou roughly $45,000 and Hart his job.
		Hart would retreat to Fairview Farm—an 87-acre estate in Aquetong—which was just down the road from Kaufman's Barley Sheaf Farm in Holicong.
	www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu /LitMap/bio.html (861 words)

	Moss (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In botany, a moss and a peat moss are plants
		Some lichens are commonly called 'mosses' (such as reindeer moss, or reindeer lichen).
		Places with moss in the name are usually on or near peat bogs; e.g.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moss_(disambiguation) (163 words)

	AllRefer.com - Moss Hart (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		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.
		Hart also directed several 1940s film comedies and wrote the 1952 screen hit Hans Christian Andersen.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/Hart-Mos.html (278 words)

	Moss Hart Postage Stamp
		Moss Hart was born October 24, 1904, in New York City.
		Hart's accomplishments as a director equaled his achievements as a playwright.
		Hart also wrote notable screenplays for Hans Christian Andersen (1952), starring Danny Kaye with songs by Frank Loesser, and A Star Is Born (1954), which marked one of Judy Garland's greatest screen triumphs.
	arts.monstersandcritics.com /news/printer_1757.php (993 words)

	Theater News - Feature: The Hart of the Matter - Kitty Carlisle Hart on her marriage to Moss Hart and the upcoming ...
		Hart, still glamorous and sharp at 94, tells me as we sit in her spacious Upper East Side apartment, the couple's first meeting -- in 1935 -- hardly qualifies as love at first sight.
		Hart says that she employed similar tactics when she took on the part of Liza Elliott in a summer stock production of the groundbreaking musical Lady in the Dark, for which her husband wrote the book: "Moss took me to see Gertrude Lawrence [who had originated the role on Broadway] in The King and I.
		Hart's longtime friend and fellow To Tell the Truth panelist Orson Bean; and former New York governor Mario Cuomo, with whom she worked closely during her 20-year tenure as Chairperson of the New York State Council of the Arts.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/5323 (1278 words)

	Theater News - Tunes, Tomes, & Videos: A Dazzling Biography of Moss Hart - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hart's death in 1961, at the age of 57, seemed especially premature since he was the father of two small children.
		Hart seems to have harbored theatrical ambitions from the moment he crossed the threshold of a theater.
		Hart was almost as well-known for his protracted course of psychoanalysis as for his plays.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/1360 (1500 words)

	Hart To Hart: Honoring A Quintessential Pair
		The gala evening was a thoughtful and delightful combination of live entertainment mixed with classic TV and movie clips honoring the careers of the noted playwright, director and writer, Moss Hart and his wife Kitty Carlisle Hart who was a TV, movie and political celebrity in her own right.
		Moss and Kitty Carlisle Hart represented in collaboration the quintessential accomplishments of that era.
		Act One was appropriately (since it was the title of Moss Hart's acclaimed autobiography) devoted to Moss Hart who died in 1961.
	www.theaterscene.net /ts/articles.nsf/FI/603fc156e1ce096485256f630021478b?OpenDocument&ExpandOutline=1.9,1.10,1.11,1.13,1.14,1.21 (660 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| Groucho, Gershwin, Hart and me
		At 95, Kitty Carlisle Hart still glows with the memory of her heyday in 1930s Hollywood and her marriage to Moss Hart, whose play 'Once in a Lifetime' is being revived next week at the National.
		Moss Hart, with George S Kaufman, also wrote a string of hit plays in the 1930s and '40s, chief among them You Can't Take It With You and The Man Who Came to Dinner.
		By the time Mrs Hart met Moss on the set of A Night at the Opera in 1935, he was hot property.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/12/12/btkitty12.xml&sSheet=/arts/2005/12/12/ixartleft.html (969 words)

	Willamette Week Online \| Performance \| BOOK REVIEW \| Gathering Moss (5/16/2001)
		BY JACK V. I approached the reading of Steven Bach's biography of playwright Moss Hart with a strange mixture of apprehension and hopefulness, as I had my own experiences with Moss Hart and his wife, Kitty Carlisle, which made me much less than enthusiastic about them on a personal level.
		On that occasion, I found Hart pleasant, distant, beautifully groomed, utterly opaque, and ultimately bewildered by the soggy mess that was tragically dragging itself across the O'Keefe Center stage.
		It must be noted, however, that Bach did not receive cooperation from the Hart family, and that many of the anecdotes in the book rely on the oral remembrances of second- and third-hand sources.
	www.wweek.com /story.php?story=1652 (478 words)

	Hart Moss
		oss Hart was born Oct. 24, 1904 (New York City) and died Dec. 20, 1961 (Palm Springs, Cal).
		When that show flopped on the road, Hart lost his job and feared his theatrical career was over.
		Hart's memoir 'Act One' (1959) is one of the finest and most beloved books ever written about life in the theatre.
	www.maurice-abravanel.com /hart_moss.html (233 words)

	James A. Michener Art Museum: Bucks County Artists
		For Moss Hart, Bucks County was an idyllic retreat from New York City where, surrounded by silence and $35,000 worth of trees, he could write.
		Moss Hart was actively involved in the Bucks County Playhouse, serving as an officer when it opened in 1939.
		Moss Hart was one of the original officers of the Bucks County Playhouse.
	www.michenerartmuseum.org /bucksartists/artist.php?artist=104&page=465 (283 words)

	Social Diary 11/23/04 - An evening honoring Kitty Carlisle Hart
		This show put Hart on the high road of Broadway success and was followed by further collaborations with Kaufman including “You Can’t Take It With You,”; which won a Pulitzer in 1936 and “The Man Who Came To Dinner” in 1939.
		Rosemary Harris, who was discovered in London by Hart, related a similar story, as he brought her to America in 1952 to star in his “The Climate of Eden.” As did Robert Goulet, who also performed one of his favorite songs from “Camelot,”; “How to Handle A Woman...
		Moss Hart’s was a rich life from very early adulthood on.
	www.newyorksocialdiary.com /socialdiary/2004/11_23_04/socialdiary11_23_04.php (1250 words)

	National Review: Almost Famous. - Review - book review
		Hart was born in 1904, the oldest son of a Cockney cigarmaker who moved to America just in time to see his trade wiped out by the advent of the machine-manufactured cigar.
		Hart still had the rest of his career ahead of him: Only the first seventy of Dazzler's 462 pages overlap with Act One.
		After that, Hart went on to write six more plays with Kaufman and another four on his own, plus the books of musicals by Irving Berlin (As Thousands Cheer, 1933), Cole Porter (Jubilee, 1935), Rodgers and (Lorenz) Hart (I'd Rather Be Right, 1937), and Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin (Lady in the Dark, 1941).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_10_53/ai_74362328 (1031 words)

	Advocate, The: Dazzler: The Life and Times of Moss Hart. - Review - book review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hart penned his own life story--or a lively portion of it, at any rate--in Act One, a book that is widely considered to be one of the best ever written about life in the theater.
		He does note where Hart distorted the facts: His aunt Kate, the eccentric who first took him to the theater as a child, was benevolently dispatched in Act One.
		Hart traveled in circles where homosexuality was acknowledged and accepted, if not discussed, but he was never comfortable with his attraction to men.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2001_July_17/ai_76577640 (1022 words)

	Information about U.S. FDC: 37¢ Moss Hart PSA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Known for his fast-paced comedies, Moss Hart wrote and directed some of the greatest works of stage and screen.
		Born in the Bronx, New York, in 1904, Hart's family was so poor he dropped out of school at age 10 to work and help pay bills.
		Fondly remembered as the "Prince of Broadway," Hart died in 1961 at the age of 57.
	www.unicover.com /EA1CDLTD.HTM (439 words)

	Geffen Playhouse Presents Kitty Carlisle Hart in Here's to Life - Legendary Actress Creates a Stellar Evening of ...
		Hart and musical conductor David Lewis bring their show to the Geffen Playhouse at the Brentwood Theatre as part of the Geffen’s celebration of Moss Hart’s centennial birthday.
		In her one-woman, cabaret-style show, Hart recalls stories from her illustrious 70-year career, singing famous melodies by some of the world’s greatest musical theater composers such as Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and Lerner and Loewe, many of whom were also close, personal friends to the actress.
		Hart is perhaps most well known for her role as a regular panelist in the long-running television show To Tell The Truth, which she appeared on for 15 years.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2005/4/prweb225508.htm (979 words)

	BROADWAY LEGEND MOSS HART COMMEMORATED ON US POSTAGE STAMP
		WASHINGTON - Award-winning dramatist and director Moss Hart was honored today when the U.S. Postal Service issued a new commemorative postage stamp recognizing his life and accomplishments.
		"The Postal Service is proud to honor Moss Hart, one of the legends of the golden age of Broadway," said John Walsh, presidentially appointed Vice-Chairman of the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors, who dedicated the stamp.
		Catherine Hart, Moss Hart's daughter, attended as an honored guest.
	www.usps.com /communications/news/stamps/2004/sr04_071.htm (608 words)

	A very golden Hart
		Spectacularly robust at 94, Hart made her entrance in a Chinese red dressing gown, holding a bottle of wine, which she readily pours for her guests, as she pulls the lacquered coffee table closer.
		Hart died in 1961, and she said, “It wasn’t easy then, being a widow with two small children to raise.
		Speaking of DuMaurier’s best-seller brought up an episode in Hart’s life that was almost eerily similar to the scene in which the young wife explores the secret rooms of her husband’s first wife, the mysterious Rebecca.
	www.downtownexpress.com /de_80/averygoldenhart.html (1224 words)

	New Issue & Topicals - Stamp Details
		¡§As a screenwriter and director, Hart captured America's optimistic spirit to the delight of audiences then and now.¡¨ Expected to join Walsh for the stamp dedication ceremony are Hart family members including Hart¡¦s wife, actress and singer Kitty Carlisle, and his son, Christopher Hart.
		As he wrote in his autobiography, Act One, ¡§My feet were embedded in the Upper Bronx, but my eyes were set firmly toward Broadway.¡¨ In 1930, Hart finally reached the street of his dreams with the comedy Once in a Lifetime, which he wrote with Kaufman.
		Hart not only directed Lerner and Loewe's Camelot (1960), based on T. White's The Once and Future King, but ensured its success by insisting on crucial cuts in the show after it opened to mixed reviews.
	www.stanleygibbons.com /newissues/include/content_stampdetails.asp?id=1429/04_oct6a (927 words)

	Talkin' Broadway - What's New on the Rialto? - "Hart to Hart" Metropolitan Opera Guild Honors Kitty Carlisle and Moss ...
		Co-hosted by Julie Andrews and Beverly Sills, the evening was entitled Hart to Hart and celebrated the lives and achievements of this beloved couple through a plethora of film clips, performances, and remembrances by those who loved and worked with them.
		Hart's film career was celebrated by Celeste Holm, who appeared in Gentleman's Agreement (screenplay by Hart), and by Audra McDonald, who performed "The Man That Got Away" following a clip from the Judy Garland version of A Star Is Born (for which Hart wrote the screenplay).
		While known primarily for her appearances on the hit TV quiz show To Tell The Truth (on which Kitty appeared from 1957 through 1981, as well as later incarnations through 2000, making her the only performer to have appeared in the same show in six decades), Carlisle is a woman of many hats.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /rialto/past/2004/11_22_04.html (673 words)

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