When speaking to Thomas McCormack, I suddenly thought about my favorite moment in Moss Hart’s Act One. It took place in 1929, when Hart was then a nobody who’d only written a play that had closed out-of-town. Nevertheless, he was recommended to no less than George S. Kaufman as a possible collaborator, so he sent the script of his comedy, Once in a Lifetime, to the great man. To ensure that it got there, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AM on September 5, 2011