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Act One: An Autobiography
Moss Hart
St. Martin's Griffin
October 1989
On Sale: October 15, 1989
456 pages ISBN: 0312032722 EAN: 9780312032722 Paperback
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Non-Fiction Memoir
The Dramatic Story that Capitvated a
Generation
With 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 incluenced 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 theatreical
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.
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