| "real-life correspondence" between Elizabeth Weiland and Hart? | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 09:35 pm EST 02/18/25 | |
| In reply to: Ethan Hawke as Lorenz Hart - dbdbdb 03:52 pm EST 02/18/25 | |
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| From the Variety review: "While waiting for Rodgers to show up, Hart regales Eddie and the few other people in the room with details of his latest infatuation, a young woman named Elizabeth Weiland (Margaret Qualley), whose real-life correspondence with Hart inspired Robert Kaplow’s urbane and endlessly quotable screenplay for 'Blue Moon.'" I can find nothing anywhere about a relationship of any sort between anyone named Elizabeth Weiland and Hart except in reviews of and articles on Blue Moon. If Weiland was a real person with whom Hart corresponded, the relationship seems to have been written about very little before now. I've also never questioned that Hart was genuinely enthusiastic about Oklahoma! on opening night in New York, although it seems like he may not have been when he saw it in New Haven. I know, of course, that he was asked to write the lyrics and turned down the offer, but that doesn't mean he didn't love it when it arrived on Broadway. A couple of things mentioned in the review do not align with what has been reported in bios and memoirs, but that doesn't mean either that the bios and memoirs were correct or that works about real people can't take liberties even with facts that we can be sure of. |
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