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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Critical Essay by Stephen Handzo
To a remarkable extent, Capra's films caught the mood of America in the Thirties and Forties. When sufficiently little was happening in the world for the masse...
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Critical Essay by Graham Greene
[You Can't Take It With You] is the Christmas Carol over again—with its sentimentality and its gusto and its touches of genius: no technical mistakes thi...
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In the following essay, Kaplan explores the similarities between You Can't Take It with You and Clifford Odets's Awake and Sing.
It is a truism that, as the most public of the arts an...
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Teaching You Can't Take It with You
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You Can't Take It with You Lesson Plans contain 117 pages of teaching material, including:
The problem with writing a book about a screenwriter is made obvious by the title of this book: If you have to give top billing to a director, you’re in trouble.
Ian Scott’s In Capra&#...
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The problem with writing a book about a screenwriter is made obvious by the title of this book: If you have to give top billing to a director, you’re in trouble.
Ian Scott’s In Capra&...
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The Queen of Mean's last property is fit for a king.Leona Helmsley, for years the imperious head of a multibillion-dollar real estate and hotel empire, will spend eternity in a $1.4 million suburba...
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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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"You took everything?""Everything."
"Everything? The Navajo rugs? The piano? All the antiques? They're worth a fortune, you know."
"I've got it all, Mother. Don't worry," I said in my most reassu...
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Moss Hart
Critical Essay by Stephen Handzo
Lesser Part of a Greater Sum, Riskin Languishes in the Shade
