Lorenz Hart

[Teasing the Korean]

Larry Hart is the subject of a new film.  It takes place on the opening night of Rodgers' and Hammerstein's Oklahoma.  Ethan Hawke plays Hart.

 

 

 

[sgcim]

We were just playing "Little Girl Blue"the other night, and I had to look up at the music to see who wrote such incredible lyrics and great music.

Sure enough, it was Rodgers and Hart. Hawke chooses such great roles.

[mikeweil]

I wonder if I ever get to watch this over here.

[Teasing the Korean]

Some of the reviews are saying that Ethan Hawke is miscast.  

[Big Beat Steve]

A small side note about the appreciation of the partners of Richard Rodgers: 

I'm reading "Eddie Condon's Treasury of Jazz " right now (in small instalments), and in the chapter on Lee Wiley (written by George Frazier) there is this:

"To hear Lee at her best, listen to her Storyville LP - the portfolio of Rodgers and Hart. Not Rodgers and that other fellow (who would be Oscar Hammerstein II, who, no disrespect intended, no Larry Hart, he) ..."

I suppose the experts' opinions do differ on the respective merits of Rodgers' partners? 

 

[AndreyHenkin]

Maybe this is common knowledge but since moving to Harlem last year I discovered Rodgers and Hart grew up right next to each other.

[sgcim]

On 9/27/2025 at 10:50 AM, Teasing the Korean said:

Some of the reviews are saying that Ethan Hawke is miscast.  

Well, it can't be much worse than Mickey Rooney playing him in "Words and Music (1948). To quote then NY Times movie reviewer, Bosley Crowther (great name for a NY movie reviewer), "t is played with fantastic incompetence by Tom Drake and Mickey Rooney in the principal roles". 

[T.D.]

It's showing at a nearby film festival in mid-October. I'm on the fence but leaning against seeing it.