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Moss Hart
New York, New York
Moss Hart was an American playwright and theatre director. Early on he had a strong relationship with his Aunt Kate, with whom he later lost contact due to a falling out between h…
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Moss Hart was an American playwright and theatre director. Early on he had a strong relationship with his Aunt Kate, with whom he later lost contact due to a falling out between her and his parents, and Kate's weakening mental state. She piqued his interest in the theater and took him to see performances often. Hart even went so far as to create an "alternate ending" to her life in his book Act One. He writes that she died while he was working on out-of-town tryouts for The Beloved Bandit. Later, Kate became eccentric and then disturbed, vandalizing Hart's home, writing threatening letters and setting fires backstage during rehearsals for Jubilee. But his relationship with her was formative. He learned that the theater made possible "the art of being somebody else … not a scrawny boy with bad teeth, a funny name … and a mother who was a distant drudge.
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2025
Merrily We Roll Along
Movie Theatre Play
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2018
A Star Is Born
Movie Original Film Writer
- 1992
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1984
You Can't Take it With You
Movie Writer
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1982
Drei gegen Hollywood
Movie Theatre Play
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1981
Přišel na večeři
Movie Theatre Play
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1979
You Can't Take it With You
Movie Theatre Play
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1977
Simple Gifts
Movie Novel
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1975
That Lucky Touch
Movie Idea
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1972
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Movie Theatre Play
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1955
The Great Waltz
Movie Opera
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1955
Prince of Players
Movie Writer
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1954
A Star Is Born
Movie Screenplay
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1954
Lady in the Dark
Movie Theatre Play
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1953
The Oscars
TV show Self
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1952
Hans Christian Andersen
Movie Screenplay
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1950
What's My Line?
TV show Self
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1948
The Decision of Christopher Blake
Movie Writer
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1947
Gentleman's Agreement
Movie Screenplay
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1944
Winged Victory
Movie Theatre Play
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1944
Lady in the Dark
Movie Theatre Play
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1942
George Washington Slept Here
Movie Theatre Play
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1941
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Movie Theatre Play
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1938
You Can't Take It with You
Movie Theatre Play
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1935
Broadway Melody of 1936
Movie Story
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1933
The Masquerader
Movie Dialogue
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1932
Flesh
Movie Dialogue
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1932
Once in a Lifetime
Movie Theatre Play
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1932
Make Me a Star
Movie Writer
