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Three Plays by Kaufman and Hart
Once in a Lifetime; You Can't Take It with You; The Man Who Came to Dinner
byGeorge KaufmanIntroduction by Moss HartIntroduction by George KaufmanThree American theater classics by two of our most revered playwrights.
Once in a Lifetime is a highly charged satire about three small-time vaudevillians who set out for Hollywood. There, their wild luck, the incompetence of the producers, and the haywire atmosphere of the burgeoning film industry conspire to their great success.
The 1936 Pulitzer Prize winner You Can’t Take It With You is the tale of a zany but lovable family of hobby-horse enthusiasts. For thirty-five years Grandpa has done nothing but hunt snakes, throw darts, and avoid income-tax payments; his son-in-law makes fireworks in the basement, and other assorted family members write plays, operate amateur printing presses, and play the xylophone. They live in delightfully comic eccentricity until Alice brings home her straitlaced Wall Street boyfriend.
The Man Who Cam Moss Hart was one of the major playwrights of the American stage during the twentieth century. Best known for his collaborations with George S. Kaufman, Hart was also one of the most flamboyant theatrical personalities of his era. Born in the Bronx in 1904, Hart began his writing career with The Beloved Bandit in 1925 under the pseudonym of Robert Arnold Conrad, but his first great success came with Once in a Lifetime (1930) written with George S. Kaufman. Other successes with Kaufman include Merrily We Roll Along (1934), You Can't Take It With You (Pulitzer Prize, 1937), The Fabulous Invalid (1938), The American Way (1939), The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939), and George Washington Slept Here (1940). His books for musical shows include Face the Music (1932) and As Thousands Cheer (1933), both with Irving Berlin; Jubilee (1935) with Cole Porter; I'd Rather Be Right (1937) with Kaufman, Lorenz Hart, and Richard Rodgers; and Lady in the Dark (1941) with Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin. Plays written by Hart alone are Winged Victory (1943), Christopher Blake (1946), Light Up the Sky (194 American playwright, librettist and theater director Moss Hart (October 24, 1904 – December 20, 1961) was an American playwright, librettist, and theater director. Hart was born in New York City, the son of Lillian (Solomon) and Barnett Hart, a cigar maker.[1][2] He had a younger brother, Bernard.[3] He grew up in relative poverty with his English-born Jewish immigrant parents in the Bronx and in Sea Gate, Brooklyn.[4] In his youth, he had a strong relationship with his Aunt Kate, with whom he later was to lose contact due to a falling out between her and his parents, and Kate's weakening mental state. She piqued his interest in the theater, taking him to see performances often. Hart even went so far as to create an "alternate ending" to her life in his book Act One. He writes that she died while he was working on out-of-town tryouts for The Beloved Bandit. In later life, Kate had become eccentric and then disturbed, vandalizing Hart's home, writing threatening letters and setting fires backstage d
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