Lorenz Milton Hart was an American lyricist and half of the Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart.
12 Facts About Lorenz Hart
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Lorenz Hart received his early education from Columbia Grammar School and entered Columbia College in 1913, before switching to Columbia University School of Journalism, where he attended for two years.
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Rodgers and Lorenz Hart subsequently wrote the song and lyrics for 26 Broadway musicals during a partnership of more than 20 years that ended shortly before Lorenz Hart's early death.
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The Rodgers and Lorenz Hart songs have been described as intimate and destined for long lives outside the theater.
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Lorenz Hart has been called "the expressive bard of the urban generation which matured during the interwar years".
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Rodgers and Lorenz Hart wrote music and lyrics for several films, including Love Me Tonight, The Phantom President, Hallelujah, I'm a Bum, and Mississippi.
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Nevertheless, Rodgers and Lorenz Hart continued working together through mid-1942, with their final new musical being 1942's By Jupiter.
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Lorenz Hart, meanwhile, was much affected by his mother's death in late April 1943.
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Lorenz Hart had taken off the night of the opening and was gone for two days.
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Lorenz Hart was found ill in a hotel room and taken to Doctors Hospital, Upper East Side, but died within a few days.
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Lorenz Hart suffered from alcoholism, and would sometimes disappear and be gone for weeks at a time on alcoholic binges.
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Lorenz Hart's remains are buried in Mount Zion Cemetery in Queens County, New York.