Once in a Lifetime Summary
Moss Hart

Once in a Lifetime Summary

Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's Once in a Lifetime was one of the pair's best collaborations, the first of eight they wrote together in the 1930s. Inspired by the rise of the talkies movies with sound and the excess of Hollywood, the play is a wisecracking satire, though not particularly mean or bitter. Hart had originally written the play in 1929. Kaufman, a more established comic playwright, collaborated with Hart on several rewrites...

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