Alexander Woollcott Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Alexander Humphreys Woollcott (January 19, 1887 – January 23, 1943) was an American critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine and a member of the Algonquin Round Table.He was the inspiration for Sheridan Whiteside, the main character in the play The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939) by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, and for the far less likable character Waldo Lydecker in the film Laura (1944). He was convinced he was the inspiration for Rex Stout's brilliant detective Nero Wolfe, but Stout, although he was friendly to Woollcott, said there was nothing to that idea.
Walter Woollcott , Frances Grey Bucklin Woollcott , William W. Woollcott
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[on the Gershwin brothers] Care must be taken to see that all the wreaths addressed to [George] do not go to the composer, for it is his elder brother Ira who writes the lyrics which helped George Gershwin's tunes in their journey across the land.
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[on Harpo Marx] A genius, with a fine sense of double-entry bookkeeping.
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I do not know whether George Gershwin was born into this world to write rhythms for Fred Astaire's feet or whether Fred Astaire was born into this world to show how the Gershwin music should really be danced. But surely they were written in the same key, these two.
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A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.
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All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening.
Died while participating in an on-air round-table discussion on the war with Germany.
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Credited with inventing the drink "Brandy Alexander".
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"Sheridan Whiteside," the lead character of the Moss Hart/George S. Kaufman play (and later film) The Man Who Came to Dinner, was based on Woolcott, an old friend of Hart and Kaufman.
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