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If Hart's impression was cartoonish, it was surely an animated cartoon. Everyone noticed his energy and felt its force. In Meryle Secrest's book "Somewhere for Me: A Biography of Richard Rodgers",Hammerstein is quoted as saying of Hart, "In all the time I knew him I never saw...
(4 of 4) Hart couldn't match his partner's belt-notches; Dick didn't care about that. But like the demanding city editor on a daily tabloid, he did want Larry to deliver copy. Many people who knew Rodgers said he had the soul of a banker. He went...
In 1942, the Theatre Guild interested Rodgers in a musical version of the rural drama "Green Grow the Lilacs." Offered the chance to write that would become "Oklahoma!", Hart sensibly said no thanks. (It's hard to imagine a less Hart-y show.) Did he think Rodgers would drop the...
Rodgers and Hart collaborated once more: five new songs for a revival of their 1927 hit "A Connecticut Yankee." The last lyric Hart wrote was for "To Keep My Love Alive," sung by a noble lady of who tires easily of men - 15 husbands, 15 early funerals. "Sir Philip played...
"Words and Music" legendizes Hart's final opening night - November 17, 1943. Left alone in his hospital death bed, Larry staggers to his feet, puts a jacket and trousers over his pajamas (the risible jammies in "Melody Makers" now a shroud for the walking dead) and somehow makes it to...