Title: Act One (film)
Content:  Act One is a 1963 American film directed and screenwritten by Dore Schary and starring George Hamilton. It is the film version of the 1959 autobiographical book Act One by playwright Moss Hart. A play based on the book premiered on Broadway in 2014. George Hamilton later complained that "Schary de-ethnicized the entire production and took out the brilliance for good measure".
Title: Act One (book)
Content:  Act One is an autobiographical 1959 book by playwright Moss Hart. It was the source for a 1963 film and a 2014 Broadway play.
Title: Act One (play)
Content:  Act One is a play written by James Lapine, based on Moss Hart's 1959 autobiography of the same title. The play premiered on Broadway in 2014.
Title: Act One (book)
Content:  The book was adapted into the film Act One (1963). James Lapine wrote a stage version (Act One), commissioned by the Lincoln Center Theater and developed by the Vineyard Arts Project. A reading was held in July 2012. There was also a workshop on Martha's Vineyard July 16–21, 2012, which featured Tony Shalhoub, Debra Monk, Chuck Cooper, and David Turner. The play premiered on Broadway, at the Lincoln Center Vivian Beaumont Theater, in previews on March 20, 2014, with the official opening on April 17, 2014. The play starred Santino Fontana, Tony Shalhoub, and Andrea Martin, and was directed by Lapine.
Title: Act One (film)
Content: George Hamilton as Moss Hart ; Jason Robards as George S. Kaufman ; Jack Klugman as Joe Hyman ; Sam Levene as Richard Maxwell ; Ruth Ford as Beatrice Kaufman ; Eli Wallach as Warren Stone (Jed Harris) ; George Segal as Lester Sweyd ; Joseph Leon as Max Siegel ; Martin Wolfson as Mr. Hart ; Sam Groom as David Starr (Dore Schary) ; Sammy Smith as Sam H. Harris ; Louise Larabee as Clara Baum ; David Doyle as Oliver Fisher ; Jonathan Lippe as Teddy Manson ; Bert Convy as Archie Leach ; Sylvie Straus as Mrs. Hart ; Arno Selco as Bernie Hart ; Allen Leaf as Harry ; Lulu B. King as Maid ; Earl Montgomery as Alexander Woollcott ; Bill Desmond as George Jean Nathan ; Joe Demar as Heywood Broun ; Drummond Erskine as Franklin P. Adams ; Kenneth Moss as Robert E. Sherwood 
Title: Act One (play)
Content:  The play is an adaptation of Moss Hart's autobiography Act One. The play, narrated by the older Moss Hart, traces his life from being poor in The Bronx to becoming famous and successful as a Broadway writer and director. The play depicts Hart's meeting and collaboration with George S. Kaufman. Act One ends with the production of the Hart-Kaufman successful play, Once in a Lifetime in 1930.
Title: Act One (play)
Content:  Act One premiered on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in Lincoln Center on March 20, 2014 (previews), officially on April 17, 2014. Directed by James Lapine, the cast featured Santino Fontana, Tony Shalhoub (as George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart) and Andrea Martin. Martin played three women in Moss Hart's life; Shalhoub also played three roles: as the older Hart, Moss's father, and George S. Kaufman. The play closed on June 15, 2014 after 67 performances and 31 previews. It was filmed to be shown on the PBS television program "Live from Lincoln Center." The filmed production was first televised on PBS in November 2015 & then uploaded to the Lincoln Center At Home Youtube page on June 19th 2020. The play had a reading on Martha's Vineyard in July 2012, with Tony Shalhoub, Debra Monk, Chuck Cooper and David Turner. The play was developed at the Vineyard Arts Project. The book had previously been adapted into a film in 1963.
Title: Act One (film)
Content:  floor-pacing agonies of Once in a Lifetime’s gestation, the torturous rounds of re-writes and previews, sugarcoating everything about the romance of the theater that All About Eve had salted and pickled... Hamilton isn’t that bad, but playing an underdog of raging literal and metaphorical appetite, he purrs as a screen presence, his matinee-idol profile belying his character’s self-doubt. Nothing needy thumps around inside him. (Had Act One been made a decade later, Richard Dreyfuss would have been perfect.) What makes this Act One work are the crafty scene-stealers cast against Hamilton’s ingenuous Hart: Eli Wallach... Jack Klugman... and, most 
Title: Act One (film)
Content:  all, Jason Robards as George S. Kaufman. With high-top hair, skeptical eyebrows that lift like Groucho Marx’s, and a resigned posture suggesting a body that’s a dried rind, Robards’s Kaufman is an Al Hirschfeld caricature come to life. Wallach, Klugman, and Robards—each had a distinctive grain to his voice, a variable velocity in his delivery. The contrast between these shrewd operators and the freshman crew playing Hart’s smart-aleck pals—among them future star George Segal as Hart’s personal prophet of doom—gives the movie its rustling texture as a Hollywood artifact, nearly everybody in it destined for greater glories on-screen. ,,"
Title: The American Playwrights Theater: The One Acts
Content:  The American Playwrights Theater: The One Acts is an American television anthology series. Anthony Quinn hosted four episodes that aired on the Arts and Entertainment Network from 1989 to 1990. Play titles were Third and Oak: The Pool Hall by Marsha Norman; The Rope (One-Act Play) by Eugene O'Neill; Let Me Hear You Whisper by Paul Zindel; and Twenty-seven Wagons Full of Cotton by Tennessee Williams. Directors were George Schaefer (director), Fielder Cook, Lela Swift, and Don Scardino. Many notable actors performed, including James Earl Jones, Lesley Ann Warren, Jose Ferrer, Elizabeth Ashley, Rue McClanahan, and Jean Stapleton.

Question: Who is the author of Act One?
Answer: James Lapine.
James Elliot Lapine.