Once in a Lifetime (play)

Once in a Lifetime
First edition book cover
(Farrar & Rinehart 1930)
Written byMoss Hart
George S. Kaufman
Date premieredSeptember 24, 1930 (1930-09-24)
Place premieredMusic Box Theatre
New York City
Original languageEnglish
SubjectHollywood Golden Age
GenreSatirical comedy
SettingA hotel room in New York City
A Pullman car en route to California
Herman Glogauer Studio, Hollywood

Once in a Lifetime is a 1930 play by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, the first of eight on which they collaborated in the 1930s.

Hart wrote the original three-act play in 1929. When he shopped it around, producer Sam Harris arranged for Kaufman to work with Hart on several revisions and rewrites.

Hart was a 25-year-old unknown at the time. Kaufman was quite renowned, and it was his name on the marquee which drew in the audiences. At the end of the Broadway opening night, a resounding success which received numerous curtain calls, Kaufman stepped forward and gave a one-line curtain speech, "I would like this audience to know that eighty percent of this play is Moss Hart."

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