Word: woolley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stay on in the house for weeks, the play's wit is as gleamingly cutthroat as its antics are gorgeously custard-pie. The identity of the lecturer is as open a secret as the fact that George Eliot was a woman. Lecturer Sheridan Whiteside (Monty Woolley) is an unexpurgated version of Alexander Woollcott, who has been a friend of the authors' as long as he has been a legend of the literary world. They originally created Sheridan Whiteside as a part for Woollcott. He refused to play it because he had to lecture in real life...
...Ohio living-room with more than verbal slaughter, have turned it also into an immensely comic beer garden. While wisecracks pour out of one faucet, nonsense pours out of another. As a comedy of bad manners, The Man Who Came to Dinner turns crude now & then. But with Actor Woolley excellent in the fattest of parts, with most of the jokes buttered on both sides, and with everything from convicts to cockroaches to brighten up the cast, the show is comedy in the best style-all Woollcott and a yard wide...
...years ago, was "Live, Love, and Learn," made with Benchley, Robert Montgomery, and Rosalind Russell. "Benchley fell flat on his face and lay there dead drunk when he first came in, and when I entered, my trousers fell down and Montgomery drenched me with a bucket of water," recalled Woolley...
Describing his role of Sheridan White-side as "an actor's dream," Woolley said however that the part "may resemble Alexander Woolcott, but is certainly not a portrait of him." He considers that the play has been much improved since Kaufman and Hart did the third act over: "The audience expects laughs all the way through, and now they get them...
Acting is a comparatively new experience for him; since college he has spent most of his time directing, Woolley remarked. Ten years ago he directed Cole Porter's "Fifty Million Frenchmen" in Boston. Cole Porter was his best friend at Yale, and Bob Benchley his side-kick while at Harvard...