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Moss Hart

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Moss Hart · Arts & Literature

What

Broadway legend (You Can't Take It with You); wrote Gentleman's Agreement

When

1904, New York City, United States — 1961, Palm Springs, California, United States

Where

United States

Prizes and awards
Biography

Moss Hart is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Broadway legend (You Can't Take It with You); wrote Gentleman's Agreement

How & why

Hart was a celebrated playwright and director who, with George S. Kaufman, wrote the Pulitzer-winning You Can't Take It with You, and later wrote the film Gentleman's Agreement (1947), an exposé of antisemitism. He was born into a poor Jewish family in New York and was Jewish. He was a defining figure of the Broadway stage.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

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Broadway legend (You Can't Take It with You); wrote Gentleman's Agreement

1947

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters