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Before he was an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and director, Moss Hart was a poor, stage-struck Brooklyn dreamer who, after years of writing submissions, rejections galore and sheer persistence, finally grasped the brass ring. He chronicled the sweatiness and sweetness of his first success in the colorful 1959 memoir Act One, which quickly became one of the signature books about the theater. Veteran studio head and Sunrise at Campobello author Dore Schary lovingly adapted it for film in this shrewdly cast recounting of how fledgling Hart (effectively earnest George Hamilton) teamed with Broadway legend George S. Kaufman (a marvelously dry Jason Robards, Jr.) to write the 1930 Hollywood satire Once in a Lifetime.
Original Release
12/26/1963
US Release
12/26/1963
Cast
Name | Character |
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George Hamilton | Moss Hart |
Jason Robards | George S. Kaufman |
Jack Klugman | Joe Hyman |
Sam Levene | Richard Maxwell |
Ruth Ford | Beatrice Kaufman |
Eli Wallach | Warren Stone |
Joseph Leon | Max Seigel |
George Segal | Lester Sweyd |
Martin Wolfson | Mr. Hart |
Sammy Smith | Sam H. Harris |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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George Hamilton | Moss Hart |
Jason Robards | George S. Kaufman |
Jack Klugman | Joe Hyman |
Sam Levene | Richard Maxwell |
Ruth Ford | Beatrice Kaufman |
Eli Wallach | Warren Stone |
Joseph Leon | Max Seigel |
George Segal | Lester Sweyd |
Martin Wolfson | Mr. Hart |
Sammy Smith | Sam H. Harris |
Louise Larabee | Clara Baum |
David Doyle | Oliver Fisher |
Jonathan Goldsmith | Teddy Manson |
Bert Convy | Archie Leach |
Arno Selco | Bernie Hart |
Sylvia Straus | Mrs. Hart |
Allen Leaf | Harry the waiter |
Lulu B. King | Maid |
Earl Montgomery | Alexander Woollcott |
Bill Desmond | George Jean Nathan |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Dore Schary | Producer |
Walter Reilly | Producer |