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#JAMES GANG ASSOCIATE STAR CROSSWORD CLUE MOVIE#

Known as the Old Man, he was short, coarse, with a thick accent, and his manners were less than genteel. Max Hart, Larry’s father, wasn’t prominent, elegant, or conventional. Rodgers a prominent physician who enjoyed an haute-bourgeois life-elegant apartment, good connections, conventional environment. Larry Hart and Dick Rodgers were both bright Jewish boys from Manhattan who at one point or another went to Columbia, but there the similarity in their backgrounds ends. Rodgers secured what he’d wanted: control of the copyrights to those extraordinary songs.” So ended the exhilarating and rewarding collaboration of twenty-five years-in rage, in grief, and in court. Not that he grabbed money for himself-he was scrupulous in his business dealings-but, we’re told, “countering Teddy Hart’s accusation of undue influence on his brother, Rodgers tiptoed along the precipice of perjury.” In the lawsuits that followed, Marmorstein writes, “Teddy Hart lost one appeal after another. There was a ruthless, perhaps dishonest manager, but to Marmorstein there was a more subtle villain: Richard Rodgers. The book begins at the end of the story-with Larry’s death, and the complicated and ugly fight over his will, and the way Teddy Hart, his beloved younger brother, and Teddy’s wife, Dorothy, were (or weren’t?) done out of their fair share of his money. The story of the irresistible and tragic Lorenz Hart, of his collaboration with the more grounded and less exuberant Richard Rodgers, and of the Broadway musical comedy from the twenties to the forties is the subject of Gary Marmorstein’s new soup-to-nuts biography of Hart, A Ship Without a Sail. Yet just a few years later, the partnership was over, and Larry Hart-at forty-eight-was dead, while Dick Rodgers, only forty-one, was launched on his even more triumphant partnership with Oscar Hammerstein. The quality of their work was at its peak, their fame and fortune at their height.

A slew of other hit shows lay in the past, and Pal Joey was coming up, with By Jupiter on its heels. The year before Porter’s DuBarry, R&H had triumphed with both I Married an Angel and The Boys From Syracuse.

#JAMES GANG ASSOCIATE STAR CROSSWORD CLUE MOVIE#

When the song was recycled for Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra in the 1956 movie High Society, this snatch of Porter’s lyric was gone, but smooth, smart Rodgers and Hart weren’t, and more than half a century later they’re still with us, on scores of CDs and on iTunes, their most famous songs the meat and potatoes (or maybe the caviar) of countless jazz and cabaret artists. “It’s smooth! It’s smart! It’s Rodgers! It’s Hart!” It’s Cole Porter from DuBarry Was a Lady-the song, “Well, Did You Evah!” the singers, Betty Grable and Charles Walters the year, 1939.

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