While he had a short life and very short film career, sleekly handsome actor Richard Hart, with his dark and virile looks, demonstrated much promise in those few years, especially on Broadway and in TV's "Golden Age." It all ended quickly, however, with his sudden demise at age 35. Born Richard Comstock Hart, in Providence, Rhode Island on April 14,...
Richart Hart has two nephews from Providence, RI who followed him into Entertainment. Richard Blackburn (Eating Raoul, Satan's Mistress, etc.) and his brother Michael "ACE" Blackburn (Little Giants, Satan's Mistress, Soaps, etc.).
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Once made a government propaganda film with director Elia Kazan.
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According to Laura Wagner in her article on Richard in the Summer 2014 issue of Films of the Golden Age, his final years were spent in a relationship with actress Felicia Montealegre. They appeared together on TV episodes of "Studio One". Following Hart's death she married composer Leonard Bernstein.
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Did summer stock in Tiverton, New Jersey before making his Broadway debut in "Pillar to Post" in 1943.
Was an All-American soccer player in his college years at Brown University.
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Dark-haired American leading man, briefly popular in the late 1940's. The son of a distinguished lawyer (President of the Rhode Island Bar Association), he graduated from Brown University and worked as a journalist before making his Broadway debut in 1945. Died aged 35, apparently from a heart attack.
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Had 3 children by marriage: 1 son - Christopher Comstock Hart Rawson - with first wife/high school sweetheart Eugenia Getchell; 2 daughters - Hillary and Sheila - with second wife actress Louise Valery; Christopher, who took stepfather Jonathan Rawson's surname became a theatre critic, Hillary a college professor at the University of Texas, and Sheila was a horse breeder in Ohio.
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Winner of the 1945 Theatre World Award for his Broadway performance in "Dark of the Moon".
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There is reported that he had a relationship with Phyllis Eileen Buswell, following his estrangement from second wife/actress Louise Valery, a relationship that bore a son, Richard Lee Hart, on September 2, 1947.