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Act One
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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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 gaIore and sheer persistence, finaIly grasped the brass ring. He chronicled the sweatiness and sweetness of his first success in the coIorfuI 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 Iovingly adapted it for fiIm in this shrewdly cast recounting of how fledgling Hart (effectively earnest George Hamilton) teamed with Broadway legend George S. Kaufman (a marveIousIy dry Jason Robards, Jr.) to write the 1930 Hollywood satire Once in a Lifetime. Featuring Jack KIugman, George SegaI, Eli WalIach, Sam Levene, Bert Convy (as heartthrob actor Archie Leach, Iater HoIlywood-bound as Cary Grant) and a sprightly score by Skitch Henderson, Act One is a warm, deeply feIt vaIentine to the stage and the shaky but starry Iaunch of the career of one of its leading lights. |
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