After a number of years of drudgery as a camp social director and small-time little theatre producer, Moss Hart emerged in the 1930s as one of America's leading Broadway playwrights. His talents were ...
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Edna Ferber wrote in a 1936 article for Stage that beyond Moss Hart's "elan there is a fine playwright with still finer potentialities; a dignified and dimensional human being with insight, sympathy, ...
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Kitty Carlisle Hart died last week. She admitted to 96. But she was as young as the spring air. She left behind friends from every meeting she attended, every restaurant she dined in, every street ...
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Kitty Carlisle Hart, whose long career spanned Broadway, opera, television and film, including the classic Marx Brothers movie "A Night at the Opera," died after a battle with pneumonia, her son sa...
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A little over a decade ago, Kitty Carlisle Hart was scheduled to spend the day with the writer Marie Brenner for a profile in The New Yorker.
But there was a terrible storm, on a day when the two w...
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Robert Goulet, the handsome, big-voiced baritone whose Broadway debut in "Camelot" launched an award-winning stage and recording career, has died. He was 73.The singer died Tuesday morning in a Los...
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One of the major delights of last season was the "Encores!" concert version of an Irving Berlin rarity, "Face the Music," at City Center.This raucous 1932 musical, with a book by Moss Hart, poked f...
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Here I am again, reluctantly counting my losses. Beloved, hated or just plain “Who cares?”, more celebrated people died in 2007 than any year in my memory. I always forget somebody, but...
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