Once in a Lifetime / You Can't Take it with You by George Kaufman

Once in a Lifetime / You Can't Take it with You by George Kaufman

Three American theater classics by two of our most revered playwrights.

Once in a Lifetime is a highly charged satire about three small-time vaudevillians who set out for Hollywood. There, their wild luck, the incompetence of the producers, and the haywire atmosphere of the burgeoning film industry conspire to their great success.

The 1936 Pulitzer Prize winner You Can't Take It With You is the tale of a zany but lovable family of hobby-horse enthusiasts. For thirty-five years Grandpa has done nothing but hunt snakes, throw darts, and avoid income-tax payments; his son-in-law makes fireworks in the basement, and other assorted family members write plays, operate amateur printing presses, and play the xylophone. They live in delightfully comic eccentricity until Alice brings home her straitlaced Wall Street boyfriend.

The Man Who Came to Dinner opened in 1939 to become one of the longest-running hits in the history of Broadway. It portrays an eminent lecturer who unwillingly accepts a dinner invitation in a small Ohio town, slips on the ice outside his hosts' home, and is forced immediately to their sickbed. While convalescing well beyond his stay of welcome, he turns the house of his indignant hosts into bedlam with his hilarious friends and diabolic pranks.

Also included in this volume are Men at Work and Forked Lightning, two essays Kaufman and Hart wrote about each other.

Moss Hart, who was born in New York City in 1904, began his career as a playwright in 1925 with The Hold-Up Man, but his first great breakthrough came in 1930 with a partnership with George S. Kaufman. Once in a Lifetime, by William S. Kaufman. Hart wrote screenplays for Gentleman's Agreement and A Star is Born, in addition to other Broadway productions such as The Man Who Came to Dinner and You Can't Take It With You, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1938. Moss Hart was also well-known for directing My Fair Lady in 1956, which won an Academy Award.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780802150646
ISBN 10	0802150640
Title	Once in a Lifetime / You Can't Take it with You
Author	George Kaufman
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Year published	1994-04-19
Number of pages	240
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.