Biography
Moss Hart was an American playwright and theatre director. Early on he had a strong relationship with his Aunt Kate, with whom he later lost contact due to a falling out between her and his parents, and Kate's weakening mental state. She piqued his interest in the theater and took 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. Later...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Merrily We Roll Along
2025
Theatre Play
A live recording of the 2024 Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical, filmed at the Hudson Theatre in New Y...
A Star Is Born
2018
Original Film Writer
Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers — and falls in love with — struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big a...
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill in America
1992
The story of Kurt Weill 's relationship with the American popular theatre. During his years in exile on Broadway, the composer of Mack the Knife and T...
You Can't Take it With You
1984
Writer
A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.
You Can't Take it With You
1979
Theatre Play
Emmy winner Jean Stapleton and Academy Award winner Art Carney star in the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart about a sl...
Simple Gifts
1977
Novel
A collection of animated Christmas shorts: An original Maurice Sendak piece about a boy with nothing to give for Christmas -- An excerpt from the earl...
That Lucky Touch
1975
Idea
A European arms dealer meets a liberated woman journalist, who is writing a story about the ridiculous things men do with the armaments during a NATO ...
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1972
Screenplay
Lecturer and broadcaster Sheridan Whiteside has been invited to dinner at the home of a pompous small-town bigwig. But he stays rather longer than any...
The Great Waltz
1955
Opera
Johann Strauss, Jr., a would-be composer of waltzes in mid-19th Century Vienna, attempts to thwart his father's efforts to prevent his success when th...
Prince of Players
1955
Writer
Prince of Players is a biographical film about the 19th century American actor Edwin Booth.
A Star Is Born
1954
Screenplay
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
Lady in the Dark
1954
Theatre Play
The unhappy female editor of a fashion magazine is undergoing psychoanalysis.
Hans Christian Andersen
1952
Screenplay
A small-town shoemaker with a knack for spinning yarns, Hans encounters happiness and heartbreak on his road to becoming a full-fledged writer.
The Decision of Christopher Blake
1948
Writer
A young boy begins to have fantasies when he learns his parents are planning to divorce. Director Peter Godfrey's 1948 drama stars Ted Donaldson, Alex...
Gentleman's Agreement
1947
Screenplay
A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.
Winged Victory
1944
Theatre Play, Screenplay
Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with ...
George Washington Slept Here
1942
Theatre Play
New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill's knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in Pennsy...
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941
Theatre Play
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
You Can't Take It with You
1938
Theatre Play
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish m...
Broadway Melody of 1936
1935
Story
Lovely, gifted Irene Foster hopes that her childhood sweetheart-turned Broadway producer Robert Gordon will recognize her--and her talent. Gordon is t...
The Masquerader
1933
Dialogue
A drug-addicted member of Parliament needs to take time off and secretly pull his life together, so he gets his lookalike cousin to agree to temporari...
Flesh
1932
Dialogue
Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.
Once in a Lifetime
1932
Theatre Play
Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
Make Me a Star
1932
Writer
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.