Full name: Act One: An Autobiography

Author: Moss Hart Year: 1959 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, Play Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780312032722 9781250050892 0312032722

The Dramatic Story that Captivated a GenerationWith 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 centure 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. Similar books: Ghost Light by Frank Rich And Furthermore by Judi Dench Must You Go? by Antonia Fraser The Enchanted Places by Christopher Milne Under a Wing by Reeve Lindbergh Underfoot in Show Business by Helene Hanff Memoirs by Kingsley Amis No More Words by Reeve Lindbergh Losing Mum and Pup by Christopher Buckley My Life So Far by Jane Fonda Nobody's Son by Luis Alberto Urrea My Life as Me by Barry Humphries Walking in the Shade by Doris Lessing The Story of My Life by Ellen Terry Elia Kazan by Elia Kazan Patti LuPone by Patti LuPone Being an Actor by Simon Callow Finishing the Hat by Stephen Sondheim Monster in a Box by Spalding Gray