Moss Hart

Author : Moss Hart
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443435317
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Act One written by Moss Hart and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Act One is the autobiography of Moss Hart, an American playwright and theatre director. Born into impoverished circumstances—his father was often unemployed—Hart left school at age twelve for a series of odd jobs that included being an entertainment director at a Catskills summer resort. Hart’s big break came in 1930 with the Broadway hit Once in a Lifetime, written with George Kaufman. The two would collaborate again on You Can’t Take It With You (1936) and The Man Who Came To Dinner (1939). You Can’t Take It With You won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1937, and the 1938 film version, directed by Frank Capra, won Oscars for both Best Picture and Best Director. Act One was adapted for a 1963 film starring George Hamilton, and for a 2014 stage production starring Tony Shalhoub and Andrea Martin. HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.

Author : James Lapine
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822232170
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Act One written by James Lapine and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Growing up in an impoverished family in the Bronx, Moss Hart dreamed of being part of the glamorous world of the theatre. Forced to drop out of school at age thirteen, Hart’s famous memoir Act One is a classic Hortatio Alger story that plots Hart’s unlikely collaboration with the legendary playwright George S. Kaufman. Tony Award-winning writer and director James Lapine has adapted Act One for the stage, creating a funny, heartbreaking, and suspenseful play that celebrates the making of a playwright and his play Once in a Lifetime. ACT ONE offers great fun to a director to utilize over fifty roles, which can be played by a cast as few as twelve, and in a production that can be done as simply or elaborately as desired.

Author : Moss Hart
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573613388
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Once in a Lifetime written by Moss Hart and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1960 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a knockabout satiric tale of three on-the-skids vaudeville troupers -- Jerry, Mae, and George -- who decide to head for Hollywood and try their luck at the newest craze: "talkies." After a hilarious series of consistent blunders, the unassuming George is carried to fame and fortune becoming (for a short time, at least) a captain of The Industry. This fast-paced, wild romp offers marvelous character opportunities, while spoofing the absurdities of Tinsel Town. "--Publisher's website.

Author : Moss Hart
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822212874
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Can't Take it with You written by Moss Hart and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1937 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice Sycamore, a young woman from a happy, but very eccentric family, has second thoughts about her relationship with her wealthy boss's son, Tony, after a meeting between the two families goes terribly wrong.

Author : George S. Kaufman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781494020866
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I'd Rather Be Right written by George S. Kaufman and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1937 edition.

Author : Moss Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Light Up the Sky written by Moss Hart and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look inside show business, set just before and immediately after a Broadway bound play meets its first audience.

Author : Alison Mosshart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733350129
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Car Ma written by Alison Mosshart and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Car Ma is Alison Mosshart's first collection in print of her art, photography, and writing. Mosshart is the lead singer for bands such as The Kills and Dead Weather. Her mother was a high school art teacher and her father a used car dealer--both influenced Car Ma's images, poems, and stories. Mosshart describes the book: "It's a book about America, performance, and life on the road. It's a book about fender bender portraiture, story tellin' tire tracks, and the never-ending search for the spirit under the hood."

Author : Jared Brown
Publisher : Backstage Books
ISBN 13 : 9780823078905
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moss Hart written by Jared Brown and published by Backstage Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He's a legend of The Great White Way whose very name is synonymous with the Golden Age of Broadway: Moss Hart. In Moss Hart: A Prince of the Theater, biographer Jared Brown offers a meticulously researched, sensitive look at the life and work of a major American artist." "More than just an assessment of Hart's career, this is a personal portrait as well. Despite his enormous success in both theatre and film, Hart spent all of his adult life in psychoanalysis, attempting to come to grips with a crushing depression. He was rumored to be bisexual, and this book examines the evidence for that claim. When he married, in his forties, he and his wife, the actress-singer Kitty Carlisle, were said by Hart's friend and collaborator Alan Jay Lerner to be "not only an ideal couple, [but] the ideal couple."" "This is the first biography to be written with the full cooperation of Hart's family and friends. Author Jared Brown had access to documents (such as Hart's diary) previously unavailable to biographers, and conducted lengthy interviews with Hart's wife and children, as well as with some of the most prominent performers he worked with, such as Julie Andrews, Gregory Peck, Eddie Albert, and Roubert Goulet. This long-awaited biography, featuring dozens of never-before-published photographs, is truly the definitive picture of an extraordinary man and a theatrical giant."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Moss Hart
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 : 9780464049449
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merrily We Roll Along written by Moss Hart and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merrily We Roll Along, although praised by critics, was a failure on Broadway in 1934 but has since garnered almost cult classic status. It concerns a man who has lost the idealistic values of his youth. Its innovative structure presents the story in reverse order, with the character regressing from a mournful adult to a young man whose future is filled with promise.

Author : Kitty Carlisle
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kitty, an Autobiography written by Kitty Carlisle and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An autobiography of the singer, movie star, and actress describing her personal life and career achievements.