Moss Hart
Moss Hart ( born October 24, 1904 in New York; † December 20, 1961 in Palm Springs, California ) was one of the most famous American writers, screenwriters and playwrights of the 20th century.
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Life
Moss Hart grew up in poverty. His first play he wrote as a 12 -year-old and performed it with great enthusiasm of his relatives from the Bronx. Shortly before his 15th birthday he had to leave school to support his family by working in a clothing factory. Besides hard headed a small theater group in the Bronx and Newark. In the 1930s, Moss Hart had the first success as a playwright, along with George Simon Kaufman, who in turn was successful only with co- authors. There followed a number of other plays, where they won the Pulitzer Prize for You Can not Take It With You 1937. In addition to his work as a playwright Hart staged partly from other writers scripts for theater and film. In 1941 he wrote the film script A new star in the sky, who had six years earlier shown responsible for the film script of Elia Kazan's Oscar-winning film Gentleman's Agreement (1947). He received a bonus of $ 100,000 and can work undisturbed a house in Palm Springs, California. This was based largely on the 1937 screenplay version of Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell and Robert Carson. The musical My Fair Lady ( 1956) with Julie Andrews as cocky flower seller Eliza Doolittle is one of the most famous plays on Broadway. Mosshart is the young actress who drilled two full days at a time, to teach her the songs, the movements and the Cockney dialect.
Family
On August 10, 1946 Moss Hart married in New York, the actress Kitty Carlisle ( Catherine Conn really, 1910-2007 ). The marriage had two children: Christopher ( born 1948 ), theater producer, and Catherine ( b. 1950 ), physicist. Moss Hart died on December 20, 1961 of a heart attack in Palm Springs and was in Hartsdale, New York, buried.
Prior to his marriage alleged friends and tabloids that Mosshart would be homosexual and that he was so many years been in therapy. He wrote for the bisexual actor Danny Kaye, in his role in the play Hans Christian Anderson, the following lines:
" You would be surprised how many kings, a queen chatted with a mustache. "