Moss Hart

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United States playwright who collaborated with George S. Kaufman (1904-1961)

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As Thousands Cheer (1933) was a revue, also with book by Moss Hart, with a theme: each number was presented as an item in a newspaper, some of them touching on issues of the day. Source: Internet

Kaufman: "Shoot her." citation Career He worked with Moss Hart in 1930 on the Broadway hit "Once in a Lifetime" and also with Hart, wrote "You Can't Take it With You" and "The Man Who Came to Dinner". Source: Internet

One play and one musical that he wrote won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama: You Can't Take It with You (1937, with Moss Hart ), and Of Thee I Sing (1932, with Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin ). Source: Internet

He wrote a memoir, Act One : An Autobiography by Moss Hart, which was released in 1959. Source: Internet

In the Moss Hart autobiography Act One, Hart portrayed Kaufman as a morose and intimidating figure, uncomfortable with any expressions of affection between human beings—in life or on the page. Source: Internet

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