DAZZLER: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MOSS HART.(Steven Bach wrote biography - Dazzler: The Life and Times of Moss Hart)(Review) (book review)

by Steven Each, Knopf, New York. 447 pp, 16 pp of illus., $27.50 cloth.

MULTI-TALENTED PLAYWRIGHT AND director Moss Hart wrote several classic stage comedies with George S. Kaufman, including The Man Who Came to Dinner, and the screenplay for George Cukor's A Star Is Born. He directed musicals like My Fair Lady and penned a charmingly nostalgic--if unreliable--memoir of his early years, Act One. That's a lot of accomplishment for someone who died of heart disease at age 57. Biographer Steven Bach, who teaches at Columbia University and Bennington College, provides the first ...

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