Story of the life of writer/playwright Moss Hart.Story of the life of writer/playwright Moss Hart.Story of the life of writer/playwright Moss Hart.
Jonathan Goldsmith
- Teddy Manson
- (as Jonathan Lippe)
- Director
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I am an actress and the book "Act One" is one of my favorites and a must-read for every actor, director, producer, etc. I know. The kind of book I re-read every 5 years or so. This movie was a disgrace. Although it had some good actors in it: Jason Robards, Jack Klugman, George Segal. Just awful and a slap in the face to the great Moss Hart. Bert Convy as "Archie Leach", a.k.a. Cary Grant and no English accent? What was that? Also, Moss Hart's family lived in grinding poverty and that was not shown accurately. The apartment they lived in looked much too nice. One of the many horrible things about it was the score! Intrusive, inappropriate, childish. Shame on you, Skitch Henderson!
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- TriviaFirst film role of any kind for Jonathan Goldsmith (as Jonathan Lippe), who portrayed Teddy Manson, and who is now much better known as "The Most Interesting Man in the World" from Dos Equis beer TV commercials.
- GoofsIn an early scene, Moss Hart (George Hamilton) hears a radio news broadcast reporting that Colonel Theodore Roosevelt has just returned from an Asian excursion and that the "former president was in excellent spirits". This refers to an actual news event reported on September 10, 1929, but it was President Roosevelt's son, also named Theodore, who made the trip. The former president had died in 1919.
The radio also reports that the New York Yankees defeated the Detroit Tigers 9-3 the previous day, but the game occurred two days earlier and the previous day's game had been postponed because of rain. The news report is read nearly verbatim from the New York Times' account of the game.
- Crazy credits"Curtain" (instead of "The End")
- ConnectionsReferenced in I've Got a Secret: George Hamilton (1963)
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- Runtime1 hour 50 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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