Hart attended Columbia University, where the reciprocal friend introduced him to composer Richard Rodgers in 1919, & them wrote songs for a series of amateur and student productions until the neat profits of their score for the 1925 Theatre Guild production, The Garrick Gaieties, brought them wider acclamation. It continued working together until Hart's dying inside 1943, along the way producing scores for the series of hit shows & making a material contribution to the Great American Songbook.

Hart struggled by using his have homosexuality (in an erthe after such a life style was socially unacceptable) & by using severe alcoholism, which eventually contributed to his demise. His personalized problems were typically the stimulator of friction between him & Richard Rodgers, & as a matter of fact led to a brief breakup inside 1943, at which instance Rodgers began working by owning Oscar Hammerstein II, who was actually the school friend of Hart.

Rodgers & Hart team 1 final period in the fall of 1943 for the revival of A Connecticut Yankee. 5 years fallowing this indicate open, Hart died of pneumonia. He is buried around Mount Zion Cemetery around Queens County, New York.

Works include: 1920 Fly With Me 1925 The Garrick Gaieties 1926 The Girl Friend 1927 A Connecticut Yankee, based on a Mark Twain novel 1928 Present Arms 1935 Jumbo 1936 On Your Toes 1937 Babes in Arms 1938 The Boys from Syracuse, based on William Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors 1938 I Married an Angel 1938 Too Many Girls 1940 Pal Joey, based on John O'Hara's work 1942 By Jupiter