num_pages: 456
description: 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.
language: English
title: Act One
titlecomplete: Act One
characters: Moss Hart, Kitty Carlisle Hart
genres: Plays, Biography, Theatre, Drama, Memoir, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Classics, Biography Memoir, New York
ratings_count: 1500
awards: awardedAt: -315590400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: St. Martin's Griffin