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Lorenz Hart

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LyricistBook Writer 1895–1943

Lorenz Milton Hart (May 2, 1895 – November 22, 1943) was an American lyricist and half of the Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include "Blue Moon"; "The Lady Is a Tramp"; "Manhattan"; "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"; and "My Funny Valentine".

Also credited on28 works

A Connecticut Yankee
America's Sweetheart
Babes in Arms
Betsy
By Jupiter
Chee-Chee
Dearest Enemy
Garrick Gaieties
Higher and Higher
I Married an Angel
I’d Rather Be Right
Jumbo
On Your Toes
Pal Joey
Peggy-Ann
Poor Little Ritz Girl
Present Arms
She’s My Baby
Simple Simon
Spring Is Here
The Boys from Syracuse
The Girl Friend
Too Many Girls
Roberta
Show Boat
The New Moon
Chicago
Irene

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In the literature8 passages

  • 32 Richard Rodgers (1902–79), American composer, best known for his collaborations with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein. These creative partnerships resulted in more than thirty Broadway musicals, including several established classics of the American musical theatre.Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein
  • “American Popular Song: Great American Songwriters” (clockwise from left): Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Hoagy Carmichael, George Gershwin, and Duke Ellington. 1983. © AL HIRSCHFELD. Reproduced by arrangement with Hirschfeld’s exclusive rep…Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block
  • T he historic collaboration of Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and Lorenz Hart (1895–1943) began inauspiciously, shortly after their first meeting in 1919, when one of their first songs, “Any Old Place with You,” was interpolated into a Broadway show. Hart was twenty-four and Rodgers only seventeen. The next year the new partners produced the…Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block
  • Hart, Dorothy, and Robert Kimball, eds. The Complete Lyrics of Lorenz Hart . New York: Knopf, 1986.Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block
  • Early in 1959, Richard Rodgers was overseeing a revival of the stage musical Babes in Arms , which Rodgers and Lorenz Hart had written years before and which had been made into a movie with Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. I was a kid when I fell in love with Judy and Mickey and the movie, which was about young talents putting on their own…This Time Together - Carol Burnett
  • Hart, Dorothy, Thou Swell, Thou Witty: The Lyrics of Lorenz Hart , Harper and Row: New York 1976Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron

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