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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;{{short description|American actor (1888–1963)}}&lt;br /&gt;
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{{Infobox person&lt;br /&gt;
| image              = Monty Wooley 1949.JPG&lt;br /&gt;
| image_size         =&lt;br /&gt;
| alt                = Black and white photograph of Monty Wooley as Sheridan Whiteside, 1942&lt;br /&gt;
| caption            = Wooley as [[Sheridan Whiteside]], 1942&lt;br /&gt;
| birth_name         = Edgar Montillion Woolley&lt;br /&gt;
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1888|08|17}}&lt;br /&gt;
| birth_place        = New York City, U.S.&lt;br /&gt;
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|1963|05|06|1888|08|17}}&lt;br /&gt;
| death_place        = [[Albany, New York]], U.S.&lt;br /&gt;
| resting_place      = [[Greenridge Cemetery]], [[Saratoga Springs]], [[Saratoga County]], New York&lt;br /&gt;
| years_active       = 1929?–1955&lt;br /&gt;
| occupation         = {{hlist|Actor|director|professor}}&lt;br /&gt;
| known_for          = &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[The Man Who Came to Dinner]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Edgar Montillion&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; &amp;quot;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Monty&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Woolley&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Truitt, Evelyn Mack. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[https://books.google.com/books?id=8LsYAAAAIAAJ Who Was Who Onscreen]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; New York: Bowker (1977)&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; (August 17, 1888{{spaced ndash}}May 6, 1963) was an American film and theater actor.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;WVobit&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Obituary &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Variety Obituaries|Variety]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, May 8, 1963, page 223.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; At the age of 50, he achieved a measure of stardom for his role in the 1939 stage play &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[The Man Who Came to Dinner]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; and its [[The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942 film)|1942 film adaptation]]. His distinctive white beard was his trademark and he was affectionately known as &amp;quot;The Beard.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;MiamiNews&amp;quot;/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Woolley was nominated twice for an [[Academy Award]], for [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] in 1943 for &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[The Pied Piper (1942 film)|The Pied Piper]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; and for [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]] in 1945 for &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Since You Went Away]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;.  He won a Best Actor award from the [[National Board of Review Awards 1942|National Board of Review]] in 1942 for his role in &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Pied Piper&amp;#039;&amp;#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Early life==&lt;br /&gt;
Woolley was born in the New York City borough of [[Manhattan]] to William Edgar (1845–1927) and Jessie Woolley (1857–1927), née Arms, and grew up in the highest social circles. Woolley received a [[bachelor&amp;#039;s degree]] at [[Yale University]], where [[Cole Porter]] was an intimate friend and classmate,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book&lt;br /&gt;
 |title=Cole Porter: A Biography&lt;br /&gt;
 |last=Schwartz |first=Charles&lt;br /&gt;
 |year=1979&lt;br /&gt;
 |pages=3&lt;br /&gt;
 |publisher=[[Da Capo Press]]&lt;br /&gt;
 |isbn=0-306-80097-7&lt;br /&gt;
 |url=https://archive.org/details/coleporterbiogra00schw&lt;br /&gt;
|url-access=registration&lt;br /&gt;
 |quote=woolley.&lt;br /&gt;
 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and master&amp;#039;s degrees from Yale and [[Harvard University|Harvard Universities]].&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;EveInObit&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite news |title= Heart, Kidneys give out, Monte Woolley dies at 74 |newspaper=[[The Evening Independent]] |date=May 4, 1963 |page=3A |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xVcwAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;pg=4854,654953&amp;amp;dq=monte-woolley-dies&amp;amp;hl=en&lt;br /&gt;
}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He eventually became an assistant professor of English and drama coach at Yale.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;S.Gazette&amp;quot;/&amp;gt; [[Thornton Wilder]] and [[Stephen Vincent Benét]] were among his students. He served in [[World War I]] with the [[U.S. Army]] as a [[first lieutenant]] assigned to the general staff in Paris.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;EveInObit&amp;quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book&lt;br /&gt;
 |title=The Gay and Lesbian Theatrical Legacy: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures in American Stage History in the Pre-Stonewall Era (Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance)&lt;br /&gt;
 |editor1=Harbin, Billy J. |editor2=Marra, Kim |editor3= Schanke, Robert A.&lt;br /&gt;
 |page=392&lt;br /&gt;
 |year=2005&lt;br /&gt;
 |publisher=[[University of Michigan Press]]&lt;br /&gt;
 |isbn= 978-0-472-09858-3&lt;br /&gt;
 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zeaFlyP8-CwC&amp;amp;pg=PP11&lt;br /&gt;
}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Acting career==&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Monty Woolley star HWF.JPG|thumb|upright|alt=Woolley&amp;#039;s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, showing the television emblem, though his official category is &amp;quot;Motion Pictures&amp;quot; |[[Hollywood Walk of Fame]], 6542&amp;amp;nbsp;Hollywood&amp;amp;nbsp;Blvd.]]&lt;br /&gt;
Woolley began directing on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] in 1929 with &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Fifty Million Frenchmen]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre |first=Stanley |last=Green |author-link=Stanley Green (historian)|page=323 |publisher=[[Da Capo Press]] &amp;lt;!-- perseus group --&amp;gt; |year=1976 |isbn=9780786746842 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZWIRAljCR7oC&amp;amp;pg=PA323}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and began acting there in 1936 after leaving his academic career. In 1939 he starred in the [[George S. Kaufman|Kaufman]] and [[Moss Hart|Hart]] comedy &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[The Man Who Came to Dinner]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; for 783 performances. It was for this well-reviewed role he was typecast as the wasp-tongued, supercilious sophisticate.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;St. Pete&amp;quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Crowther&amp;quot;/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Woolley signed with [[20th Century Fox]] in the 1940s and appeared in many films through the mid-1950s. His most famous film role, a reprise of his Broadway role, was in 1941&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Man Who Came To Dinner&amp;#039;&amp;#039; in which he plays a cranky radio wag restricted to a wheelchair because of a seemingly injured hip, a caricature of the legendary pundit [[Alexander Woollcott]]. The film received a good review from &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[The New York Times]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Crowther&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Crowther, Bosley (January 2, 1942) [https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?_r=1&amp;amp;res=9B04E0D91E31E53BBC4A53DFB7668389659EDE &amp;quot;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Man Who Came to Dinner&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;quot;]. Review. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[The New York Times]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. Retrieved August 9, 2010.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He played himself&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Played himself&amp;quot; is something of a stretch.  In the movie he played himself &amp;quot;as a relentless &amp;#039;skirt chaser&amp;#039; despite the fact that in real life Woolley, himself gay, chased pants (particularly if they encased a sailor) and not skirts.&amp;quot; George F. Curten, &amp;quot;Where Is the Life that Late He Led? Hollywood&amp;#039;s Construction of Sexuality in the Life of Cole Porter&amp;quot;, in Larry Gross &amp;amp; James D. Woods, eds., &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1999, NYC, Columbia Univ. Press) page 320.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; in [[Warner Bros.]]&amp;#039; fictionalized film biography of Cole Porter, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Night and Day (1946 film)|Night and Day]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1946), and the role of Professor Wutheridge in &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[The Bishop&amp;#039;s Wife]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1947). In the comedy &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[As Young as You Feel]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1951), he played a printer who, fired routinely from his job at the age of 65, poses as an executive to get his job back.&lt;br /&gt;
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He was also a frequent radio guest performer, first appearing in the medium as a foil to [[Al Jolson]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book |title=On the Air: the Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio |last=Dunning |first=John |author-link=John Dunning (radio historian) |year=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-507678-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/onairencyclop00dunn/page/423 423] |url=https://archive.org/details/onairencyclop00dunn |url-access=registration }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Woolley became a familiar guest on such shows as &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[The Fred Allen Show]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Duffy&amp;#039;s Tavern]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[The Big Show (radio show)|The Big Show]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[The Chase and Sanborn Hour]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; with [[Edgar Bergen]] and Charlie McCarthy, and others. In 1950, Woolley landed the starring  role in the [[NBC]] series &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Magnificent Montague&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. He played a former Shakespearean actor whose long fall onto hard times forced him to swallow his pride and take a role on daily network radio, becoming an unlikely star while sparring with his wife, Lily ([[Anne Seymour (actress)|Anne Seymour]]), and his wise-cracking maid, Agnes ([[Pert Kelton]]). The show lasted from November 1950 through September 1951.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Everitt, David (2000). [https://books.google.com/books?id=x2cJwVvcJi4C&amp;amp;pg=PA219 &amp;#039;&amp;#039;King of the half hour: Nat Hiken and the golden age of TV comedy&amp;#039;&amp;#039;]. [[Syracuse University Press]]. {{ISBN|978-0-8156-0676-5}}. Retrieved August 9, 2010.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:Monty Woolley handprintsignature at Graumans Chinese Theatre.jpg|thumb|right|225px|alt=Monty Woolley&amp;#039;s concrete tile showing, from the top, the words &amp;quot;My beard&amp;quot; adjoining his beard imprint, the inscription &amp;quot;To Sid [Grauman] Wish you were here&amp;quot;, his signature, the date &amp;quot;5-28-43&amp;quot;, and his handprints |Hand and beard print at Grauman&amp;#039;s Chinese Theatre.]]&lt;br /&gt;
Woolley first appeared on television in cameos, then in his own dramatic play series &amp;#039;&amp;#039;On Stage with Monty Woolley&amp;#039;&amp;#039;.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;S.Gazette&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FnYuAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;sjid=ToEFAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;pg=4433,1703587&amp;amp;dq=monty+woolley+dinner&amp;amp;hl=en &amp;quot;Monty Woolley to Appear in a Series of Television Films&amp;quot;]. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Schenectady Gazette]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, July 11, 1953. p.&amp;amp;nbsp;8. Retrieved August 9, 2010.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He starred in a [[CBS]] TV adaptation of &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Man Who Came to Dinner&amp;#039;&amp;#039; in 1954,&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Hawes&amp;quot;/&amp;gt; which he and some reviewers lambasted,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Thomas, Bob (AP) (June 27, 1955). [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tdwwAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;sjid=Tt0FAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;pg=5572,2955388&amp;amp;dq=monty+woolley+television&amp;amp;hl=en &amp;quot;Monte Woolley Snorts At Liberace, Bore Bars&amp;quot;]. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Ottawa Citizen]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. Retrieved August 9, 2010.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Gould, Jack. (October 15, 1954).  [https://www.nytimes.com/1954/10/15/archives/television-in-review-bite-taken-out-of-man-who-came-to-dinner.html &amp;quot;Television in Review; Bite Taken Out of &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Man Who Came to Dinner&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;quot;]. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The New York Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. Retrieved August 9, 2010.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and appeared in other televised dramas in the series &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Best of Broadway&amp;#039;&amp;#039;.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;St. Pete&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LyILAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;sjid=c1IDAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;pg=6708,3397570&amp;amp;dq=monty+woolley+dies&amp;amp;hl=en &amp;quot;Monty Woolley Dies In Albany&amp;quot;]. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[St. Petersburg Times]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, May 7, 1963. Retrieved August 9, 2010.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Hawes&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book |last=Hawes|first=William|year=2001 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0pQKmPSfHCQC&amp;amp;pg=PA23 |title=Filmed television drama, 1952-1958|publisher=[[McFarland &amp;amp; Company]]|pages=23,&amp;amp;nbsp;29|isbn=978-0-7864-1132-0}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,936459,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205093451/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,936459,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 5, 2008 |title= Television: Program Preview, Oct. 11, 1954 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=October 11, 1954|access-date= August 9, 2010}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; After completing his last film, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Kismet (1955 film)|Kismet]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1955), he returned to radio for about a year, after which he was forced to retire due to ill health.{{cn|date=September 2025}}&lt;br /&gt;
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His hands and beard were impressed in the pavement of [[List of handprints in front of Grauman&amp;#039;s Chinese Theatre#1940s|Grauman&amp;#039;s Chinese Theatre]] in 1943.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Cerf&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book |first=Bennett |last=Cerf |author-link=Bennett Cerf |year=1944 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O-weAAAAMAAJ&amp;amp;q=woolley |title=Try and stop me: a collection of anecdotes and stories, mostly humorous|publisher= [[Simon &amp;amp; Schuster]] |location=New York |pages=57–59 |asin=B0007EW7W8 |access-date=March 19, 2011}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.manntheatres.com/chinese/1940s.php 1940s] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110302140455/http://www.manntheatres.com/chinese/1940s.php |date=March 2, 2011 }}. Grauman&amp;#039;s Chinese Theatre&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Woolley received a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] in 1960, officially listed in the &amp;quot;Motion Picture&amp;quot; category,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web| url=http://walkoffame.com/monty-woolley  |title=Monty Woolley |work=hollywoodchamber.net |date=October 25, 2019 |publisher=Hollywood Chamber of Commerce}} &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Note: Official category is &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Motion Pictures&amp;#039;&amp;#039; but his star bears the television emblem.&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; though his star bears the television emblem.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/monty-wooley/ &amp;quot;Hollywood Star Walk—Monty Woolley&amp;quot;]. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Los Angeles Times]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. Retrieved July 25, 2010.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The error of the television emblem was evident, considering his only TV efforts were his classic role as Sheridan Whiteside in a 1954 TV adaptation of &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Man Who Came to Dinner&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, and another small role in an episode of a short-lived series called &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Five Fingers&amp;#039;&amp;#039; in 1959.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Personal life==&lt;br /&gt;
Woolley and [[Cole Porter]] enjoyed many adventures together in New York and on foreign travels, although Porter reportedly disapproved of Woolley taking a black man as his lover.&amp;lt;ref name=colebio&amp;gt;{{cite book&lt;br /&gt;
 |title=Cole Porter: A Biography&lt;br /&gt;
 |last=Schwartz |first=Charles&lt;br /&gt;
 |year=1979&lt;br /&gt;
 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/coleporterbiogra00schw/page/38 38], 49, 111 &amp;amp; etc.&lt;br /&gt;
 |publisher=[[Da Capo Press]]&lt;br /&gt;
 |isbn=0-306-80097-7&lt;br /&gt;
 |url=https://archive.org/details/coleporterbiogra00schw&lt;br /&gt;
|url-access=registration&lt;br /&gt;
 |quote=woolley.&lt;br /&gt;
 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Woolley has been described in scholarly and other works as [[gay]] and [[closeted]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book&lt;br /&gt;
 |title=The Gay and Lesbian Theatrical Legacy: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures in American Stage History in the Pre-Stonewall Era (Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance)&lt;br /&gt;
 |editor1=Harbin, Billy J. |editor2=Marra, Kim |editor3=Schanke, Robert A.&lt;br /&gt;
 |pages=11, 321, 393&lt;br /&gt;
 |year=2005&lt;br /&gt;
 |publisher=[[University of Michigan Press]]&lt;br /&gt;
 |isbn= 978-0-472-09858-3&lt;br /&gt;
 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zeaFlyP8-CwC&amp;amp;pg=PP11&lt;br /&gt;
}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book&lt;br /&gt;
 |title=The Lavender Screen: The Gay and Lesbian Films--Their Stars, Makers, Characters, and Critics&lt;br /&gt;
 |first=Boze |last=Hadleigh&lt;br /&gt;
 |year= 2001&lt;br /&gt;
 |publisher=[[Citadel Press]]&lt;br /&gt;
 |page=213&lt;br /&gt;
 |isbn=978-0-8065-2199-2&lt;br /&gt;
 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H7u2PmlUDpwC&amp;amp;pg=PA213&lt;br /&gt;
}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book&lt;br /&gt;
 |title=The Columbia Reader on Lesbians &amp;amp; Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics&lt;br /&gt;
 |editor1=Gross, Larry |editor2=Woods, James D.&lt;br /&gt;
 |publisher=[[Columbia University Press]]&lt;br /&gt;
 |year=1999&lt;br /&gt;
 |isbn=978-0-231-10447-0&lt;br /&gt;
 |page=310&lt;br /&gt;
 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bjeJCGF5OiUC&amp;amp;pg=PA310&lt;br /&gt;
}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Starting in 1939, Woolley was living with a gay companion, Cary Abbott, who had also graduated from Yale in 1911. Abbott was discreetly identified publicly as Woolley&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;courier-secretary-traveling companion.&amp;quot; In 1942, Woolley and Abbott moved into a house in [[Saratoga Springs]], New York where they lived together until Abbott&amp;#039;s death, at age 58, from lung cancer, in 1948.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book&lt;br /&gt;
 |title=The Gay and Lesbian Theatrical Legacy: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures in American Stage History in the Pre-Stonewall Era (Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance)&lt;br /&gt;
 |editor1=Harbin, Billy J. |editor2=Marra, Kim |editor3=Schanke, Robert A.&lt;br /&gt;
 |pages=393–394&lt;br /&gt;
 |year=2005&lt;br /&gt;
 |publisher=[[University of Michigan Press]]&lt;br /&gt;
 |isbn= 978-0-472-09858-3&lt;br /&gt;
 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zeaFlyP8-CwC&amp;amp;pg=PP11&lt;br /&gt;
}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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According to [[Bennett Cerf]] in his 1944 book &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Try and Stop Me (book)|Try and Stop Me]],&amp;#039;&amp;#039; Woolley was at a dinner party and suddenly [[belch]]ed. A woman sitting nearby glared at him; he glared back and said, &amp;quot;And what did you expect, my good woman?  Chimes?&amp;quot; Cerf wrote, &amp;quot;Woolley was so pleased with this line that he insisted it be written into his next role in Hollywood.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Cerf&amp;quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Cerf, [https://archive.org/details/trystopmecollect00cerf &amp;lt;!-- quote=my good woman. --&amp;gt; p. 57]. (remainder of quote).&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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In 1943, [[Alfred Hitchcock]] wrote a mystery story for &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Look&amp;#039;&amp;#039; titled &amp;quot;The Murder of Monty Woolley.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book| title=Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection: From Sleuths to Superheroes |first= Mitzi M. |last=Brunsdale |year=2010 |page=440|publisher=Greenwood |isbn=978-0313345302 |volume=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p2zTtMxkExgC&amp;amp;pg=PA442}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Woolley was portrayed by [[Allan Corduner]] in the 2004 biopic of Cole Porter, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[De-Lovely]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite news | url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20040702%2FREVIEWS%2F407020314%2F1023 | work=Chicago Sun-Times | title=De-Lovely | access-date=July 12, 2010 | archive-date=July 22, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722130150/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20040702%2FREVIEWS%2F407020314%2F1023 | url-status=dead }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Death==&lt;br /&gt;
On April 6, 1963, Woolley was taken to the Saratoga Springs Hospital with heart problems, and two days later transferred to the [[Albany Hospital]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book&lt;br /&gt;
 |title=The Gay and Lesbian Theatrical Legacy: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures in American Stage History in the Pre-Stonewall Era (Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance)&lt;br /&gt;
 |editor1=Harbin, Billy J. |editor2=Marra, Kim |editor3=Schanke, Robert A.&lt;br /&gt;
 |page=395&lt;br /&gt;
 |year=2005&lt;br /&gt;
 |publisher=[[University of Michigan Press]]&lt;br /&gt;
 |isbn= 978-0-472-09858-3&lt;br /&gt;
 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zeaFlyP8-CwC&amp;amp;pg=PP11&lt;br /&gt;
}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He died of complications from kidney and heart ailments on May 6, 1963, in [[Albany, New York]], aged 74.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;MiamiNews&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[https://archive.today/20130124163822/http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VZ8yAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;sjid=-OkFAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;pg=6856,2044622&amp;amp;dq=monty+woolley+dies&amp;amp;hl=en &amp;quot;Actor Monty Woolley Dies in Hospital at 74&amp;quot;].  &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Miami News]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. May 6, 1963.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He is interred at the [[Greenridge Cemetery]], Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County, New York.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Stage==&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Fifty Million Frenchmen]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1929) - Director &amp;lt;!--ibdb--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[The Second Little Show]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1930) - Director &amp;lt;!--ibdb--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[The New Yorkers]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1930) - Director &amp;lt;!--ibdb--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[America&amp;#039;s Sweetheart (musical)|America&amp;#039;s Sweetheart]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1931) - Director &amp;lt;!--ibdb--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Walk a Little Faster]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1933) - Book director &amp;lt;!--ibdb--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Champagne, Sec&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1933) - Director &amp;lt;!--ibdb--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Jubilee (musical)|Jubilee]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1935) - Dialogue director &amp;lt;!--ibdb--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[On Your Toes]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1936) - Sergei Alexandrovitch &amp;lt;!--ibdb--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Knights of Song&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1938) - His Royal Highness, Albert Edward &amp;lt;!--ibdb--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[The Man Who Came to Dinner]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1939) - Sheridan Whiteside&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web |title=Monty Woolley |publisher=Internet Broadway Database|url=http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=16549 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Green, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZWIRAljCR7oC&amp;amp;pg=PA455 p. 455].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;!-- these citations are for whole section--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Complete filmography==&lt;br /&gt;
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* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Ladies in Love]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1936)&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite magazine |url= https://www.tvguide.com/movies/ladies-in-love/cast/2000099135|title=Ladies In Love |magazine=[[TV Guide]]}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; (uncredited and unconfirmed)&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Live, Love and Learn]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1937) - Mr. Bawltitude&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Nothing Sacred (film)|Nothing Sacred]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1937) - Dr. Oswald Vunch (uncredited)&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Everybody Sing (film)|Everybody Sing]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1938) - John Fleming&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Arsène Lupin Returns]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1938) - Georges Bouchet&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[The Girl of the Golden West (1938 film)|The Girl of the Golden West]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1938) - Governor&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Forgotten Step&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1938 short) - The Art Collector&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Three Comrades (1938 film)|Three Comrades]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1938) - Dr. Jaffe&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Lord Jeff]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1938) - Jeweler&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Vacation from Love]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1938) - Wedding Guest in Car (uncredited)&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Young Dr. Kildare]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1938) - Dr. Lane-Porteus&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Artists and Models Abroad]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1938) - Gantvoort&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Zaza (1939 film)|Zaza]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1939) - Fouget&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Midnight (1939 film)|Midnight]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1939) - The Judge&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Never Say Die (1939 film)|Never Say Die]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1939) - Dr. Schmidt&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Man About Town (1939 film)|Man About Town]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1939) - Henri Dubois&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Honeymoon in Bali]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1939) - Parker, Smitty&amp;#039;s Publisher (uncredited)&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Dancing Co-Ed]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1939) - Professor Lange&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;See Your Doctor&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1939 short) - Doctor (uncredited)&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942 film)|The Man Who Came to Dinner]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1942) - Sheridan Whiteside&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[The Pied Piper (1942 film)|The Pied Piper]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1942) - John Sidney Howard&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Life Begins at Eight-Thirty]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1942) - Madden Thomas&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Holy Matrimony (1943 film)|Holy Matrimony]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1943) - Priam Farll&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Since You Went Away]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1944) - Col. William G. Smollett&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Irish Eyes Are Smiling]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1944) - Edgar Brawley&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Molly and Me]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1945) - John Graham&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Night and Day (1946 film)|Night and Day]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1946) - himself&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Paris 1900 (film)|Paris 1900]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1947 documentary) - Narrator (US version)&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[The Bishop&amp;#039;s Wife]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1947) - Professor Wutheridge&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Miss Tatlock&amp;#039;s Millions]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1948) - Miles Tatlock&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[As Young as You Feel]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1951) - John R. Hodges&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Kismet (1955 film)|Kismet]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1955) - Omar&lt;br /&gt;
{{div col end}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==Radio appearances==&lt;br /&gt;
{| class=&amp;quot;wikitable&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
! Year !! Program !! Episode/source&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 1942|| &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Philip Morris Playhouse]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; || &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[The Man Who Came to Dinner]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite news|title=Johnny Presents|newspaper=Harrisburg Telegraph |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2962783/harrisburg_telegraph/|date=July 10, 1942|page=11|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = August 6, 2015}} {{Open access}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|1943&lt;br /&gt;
|Duffy&amp;#039;s Tavern&lt;br /&gt;
|Christmas show 12/21/43&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|1950&lt;br /&gt;
|The Magnificent Montague&lt;br /&gt;
|Comedy, 11/10/1950-11/10/1951&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite book |last=Dunning |first=John |title=On The Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1998 |isbn=0-19-507678-8 |pages=423}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Notes&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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