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Act One
An Autobiography
Author: Moss Hart; Foreword by Christopher Hart
Act One
$12.99
About This Book
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The Dramatic Story that Capitvated a Generation
With this new edition, the classic best-selling autobiography by the late playwright Moss Hart returns to print in the thirtieth anniversary of its original publication. Issued in tandem with Kitty, the revealing autobiography of his wife, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Act One, is a landmark memoir that influenced a generation of theatergoers, dramatists, and general book readers everywhere. The book eloquently chronicles Moss Hart's impoverished childhood in the Bronx and Brooklyn and his long, determined struggle to his first theatrical Broadway success, Once in a Lifetime. One of the most celebrated American theater books of the twentieth century and a glorious memorial to a bygone age, Act One if filled with all the wonder, drama, and heartbreak that surrounded Broadway in the 1920s and the years before World War II.
Imprint Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN
9781466864603
In The News
“This is the best book on 'show business' as practiced in this century in our time...” —The New York Times Book Review
“One of the best memoirs of this or any other theatrical generation.” —Time
“Thoroughly absorbing and genuinely entertaining... Moss Hart knows how to hold an audience spellbound.” —Christian Science Monitor