1. Lorenz Milton Hart was an American lyricist and half of the Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart.
16 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 music 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 was found ill in a hotel room from drink and taken to Doctors Hospital, Upper East Side, but died within a few days.
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Lorenz Hart was an alcoholic, and would sometimes disappear for weeks at a time on drinking binges.
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Many of Lorenz Hart's contemporaries who knew him socially have stated he was a discreet homosexual, with a reputation as a voyeur, though his friends did not go into detail about people whose behavior he watched, such as their genders.
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Lorenz Hart composed new lyrics for many of the songs in anticipation of the revival's November 17,1943, premiere at the Martin Beck Theatre.
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Lorenz Hart persuaded him to accompany her to her Manhattan home.
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Sometime after they arrived at the couple's home, Lorenz Hart left, venturing into cold weather to resume drinking.
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Lorenz Hart was shivering, and his friend accompanied him to a hospital, where it was determined that Lorenz Hart had developed pneumonia from exposure.
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Lorenz Hart is buried in Mount Zion Cemetery in Queens County, New York.