Dgn 187: Sc. 3882 Moss Hart — 5"x7" Dragon Card with B&W portrait photo of Moss Hart First Day of Issue hand cancel — larger illustration (new window)...$2.50

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Dgn 187a: Sc. 3882 Moss Hart — 5"x7" Dragon Card with B&W portrait photo of Moss Hart with Ira & George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Ethel Waters and Edna Ferber stamps — all friends and collaborators. First Day of Issue hand cancel. Only 7 produced. — larger illustration (new window)...

Moss Hart was good friends with Cole Porter (Sc. 2550) and his crowd before Hart married, and collaborated with Porter on several shows: "Jubilee" (book, 1935), "The Man Who Came To Dinner" (1939; with Kaufman; one song by Porter); "Seven Lively Arts" (sketches, 1944).

With Irving Berlin (Sc. 3669), he participated in "Face The Music" (1932; book); "As Thousands Cheer" (1933; sketches), "Miss Liberty" (1949; fixed the book, directed)

"As Thousands Cheer" also was the show that made a star of black singer Ethel Waters (Sc. 2851) with white "downtown" audiences with the show-stopping and controversial song "Supper Time" about lynchings.

With Ira Gershwin (Sc. 3345) (and Kurt Weill) providing the music, he wrote and directed "Lady In The Dark" (1941). Hart also kept Ira company in the lobby of a Los Angeles hospital while brother George died in the operating room.

Edna Ferber (Sc. 3433) referred to Moss Hart as "the son I never had." They were close friends, except for one extended feud after they tried to collaborate on a play.

Dgn 187b: Sc. 3882 Moss Hart — 5"x7" Dragon Card with B&W portrait photo of Moss Hart The "I'd Rather Be Right" (1937) combo: Book by Moss Hart, music and lyrics by Rodgers and Hart, starring George M. Cohan. First Day of Issue hand cancel. Only 8 produced. — larger illustration (new window)...$5.00

With Richard Rodgers (Sc. 3348) & Lorenz Hart (Sc.3347), Moss Hart wrote "I'd Rather Be Right" (1937), starring George M. Cohan (Sc. 1756) as Franklin Roosevelt - whom Cohan detested!

Dgn 188: Sc. 3882 Moss Hart — 5"x7" Dragon Card with the theme "My Fair Lady:" Photos of Julie Andrews and others involved in the production, plus the My Fair Lady, Lerner & Loewe and Ireland's 2004 George Bernard Shaw stamp. — larger illustration (new window)...$9.00

"My Fair Lady" (1956, Sc. 2770): Starred Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison; produced by Herman Levin; book, lyrics and music by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe (Sc. 3346). Based on the play by George Bernard Shaw; Ireland issued a stamp for Shaw on October 1, 2004.

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