 Moss Hart died of a heart attack at the age of 57 on December 20, 1961, at his winter home in Palm Springs, California.He was entombed in a crypt at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York.In 1972, 11 years after his death, Moss Hart was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame, one of 23 people to be selected into the Hall of Fame's first induction class that year.