Act One (film)

Act One
Directed byDore Schary
Written byDore Schary
Based onAct One
by Moss Hart
Produced byDore Schary
StarringGeorge Hamilton
Jason Robards
George Segal
Jack Klugman
Sam Levene
Ruth Ford
Eli Wallach
CinematographyArthur J. Ornitz
Edited byMort Fallick
Music bySkitch Henderson
Production
company
Dore Schary Productions
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • December 26, 1963 (1963-12-26) (US)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1 million[1]

Act One is a 1963 American film written and directed by Dore Schary, and starring George Hamilton.[2] It is the film version of the 1959 autobiographical book Act One by playwright Moss Hart. A play based on the book premiered on Broadway in 2014.

George Hamilton later complained that "Schary de-ethnicized the entire production and took out the brilliance for good measure".[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference moss was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ James Wolcott (November 2012). "The Man Who Came to Broadway". Vanity Fair.
  3. ^ George Hamilton & William Stadiem, Don't Mind If I Do, Simon & Schuster 2008 p 183