Larry Hart (Lorenz Hart's nephew)

What's there to contest? Larry Hart (the lyricist) DID leave his apartment, and possibly it's true that Fritz Loewe found him outside an 8th Avenue bar and helped him back to his apartment.

I think what happened financially to the heirs of Lorenz Hart was tragic, though. Mary Rodgers, did, a few years before her death last summer, set up an ASCAP award in his name given to talented up-and-coming musical theater lyricists. That doesn't make up for what her evil non-step parents did (Dick and Dorothy), but I thought that was a nice gesture to keep his name alive.

It's a very sad story, however you slice it.

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Updated On: 1/6/15 at 10:01 PM

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Updated On: 1/6/15 at 10:57 PM

Gary Marmorstein's 2012 "A Ship Without A Sail: The Life of Lorenz Hart" is the best biography of Larry's uncle Lorenz.



Here's a link to an exhaustive review of Marmorstein's biography in the Atlantic, by dance critic Robert Gottlieb:




THE ATLANTIC: Rodgers and Hart's Dysfunctional Partnership: Richard was disciplined and controlling. Lorenz was undisciplined, uncontrollable, and often drunk. But it worked.

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Updated On: 1/9/15 at 11:19 PM

It's a subject I'm fascinated by. The treatment of Larry's estate... How it affected Theodore and Dorothy's relationship with Richard Rodgers, even if it was just through Larry. And how did Larry II and Mary Rodgers touch base?

If it's still aiming to published, in light of her death last summer, I'd be most curious to hear Mary Rodgers thoughts on the whole subject in her memoirs.