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Monty Woolley is a Actor American born on 17 august 1888 at New York City (USA)
Monty Woolley (August 17, 1888 – May 6, 1963) was an American stage, film, radio, and television actor. At the age of 50, he achieved a measure of stardom for his best-known role in the stage play and 1942 film The Man Who Came to Dinner. His distinctive white beard was "his trademark" and he was affectionately known as "The Beard."
Woolley has been described in scholarly and other works as gay, and closeted.
According to Bennett Cerf in his 1944 book Try and Stop Me, Woolley was at a dinner party and suddenly belched. A woman sitting nearby glared at him; he glared back and said, "And what did you expect, my good woman? Chimes?" Cerf wrote, "Woolley was so pleased with this line that he insisted it be written into his next role in Hollywood."
In 1943 Alfred Hitchcock wrote a mystery story for Look magazine, "The Murder of Monty Woolley".
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Birth name Edgar Montillion Wooley
Nationality USA
Birth 17 august 1888 at New York City (USA)
Death 6 may 1963 (at 74 years) at Albany (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 17 august 1888 at New York City (USA)
Death 6 may 1963 (at 74 years) at Albany (USA)
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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.Woolley has been described in scholarly and other works as gay, and closeted.
According to Bennett Cerf in his 1944 book Try and Stop Me, Woolley was at a dinner party and suddenly belched. A woman sitting nearby glared at him; he glared back and said, "And what did you expect, my good woman? Chimes?" Cerf wrote, "Woolley was so pleased with this line that he insisted it be written into his next role in Hollywood."
In 1943 Alfred Hitchcock wrote a mystery story for Look magazine, "The Murder of Monty Woolley".
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Kismet (1955)
, 1h53Directed by Vincente Minnelli, Stanley Donen
Origin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Howard Keel, Ann Blyth, Dolores Gray, Monty Woolley, Sebastian Cabot, June Kirby
Roles Omar
Rating62%
In old Baghdad, an impoverished poet goes to the marketplace to sell his rhymes for food. Because the Poet has set up shop in a spot usually reserved for a man named Hajj, some men kidnap the Poet and take him to the desert tent of Jawan, an elderly thief. Jawan, assuming that the Poet is Hajj, orders him to reverse the curse Hajj put on him fifteen years ago, which led to the kidnapping of Jawan's beloved son. The Poet asks for one hundred gold pieces to reverse the curse; Jawan agrees, and returns to Baghdad to look for his son.
As Young as You Feel (1951)
, 1h17Directed by Harmon Jones
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Monty Woolley, Thelma Ritter, David Wayne, Jean Peters, Marilyn Monroe, Constance Bennett
Roles John R. Hodges
Rating64%
When printer John R. Hodges (Monty Woolley) is forced to retire at age 65 because of a company policy, he decides to do something about it. Dyeing his hair black, he poses as Harold P. Cleveland, the president of his former employer's parent company and goes on an inspection tour of his old workplace, with the firm's nervous, mystified executives in tow. While walking around the plant, Hodges runs into Joe Elliott (David Wayne), the boyfriend of his granddaughter Alice (Jean Peters), and winks at him to let him in on the joke. Afterward, Hodges complains about the lack of experienced older employees, causing company president Louis McKinley (Albert Dekker) to promise to rescind the retirement policy and rehire all those affected by it within the past year.
The Bishop's Wife (1948)
, 1h49Directed by Henry Koster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Christmas films, Films about religion, Films about angels
Actors Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley, James Gleason, Gladys Cooper
Roles Professor Wutheridge
Rating75%
Bishop Henry Brougham (David Niven), troubled with funding the building of a new cathedral, prays for divine guidance. His plea is seemingly answered by a suave angel named Dudley (Cary Grant), who reveals his identity only to the clergyman.
Paris Nineteen Hundred (1948)
, 1h22Directed by Nicole Védrès
Origin France
Genres Documentary, Historical
Themes Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about cities
Actors Claude Dauphin, Monty Woolley, Mistinguett, Sarah Bernhardt, René Alexandre, Maurice Chevalier
Roles Narrator, US version (voice)
Rating69%
Le documentaire retrace la vie à Paris entre 1900 et 1914. Ce film a utilisé de vrais documents d'époque, et des extraits de plus de sept cents films d'actualités, de reportages, mais aussi des séquences privées. Le montage et le texte qui accompagne les images ont été appréciés par la critique : ce film est devenu une référence.
Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948)
, 1h41Directed by Richard Haydn
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors John Lund, Wanda Hendrix, Barry Fitzgerald, Robert Stack, Monty Woolley, Richard Haydn
Roles Miles Tatlock
Rating67%
Tim Burke, movie stuntman, is approached by a fellow named Denno Noonan with a peculiar offer. Noonan identifies himself as an employee of the eccentric millionaire Schuyler Tatlock, who moved to Hawaii and has not been seen in public for years.
Night and Day (1946)
, 2h8Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley, Mary Martin, Jane Wyman, Dorothy Malone
Roles Monty Woolley
Rating60%
La vie du compositeur américain Cole Porter, depuis ses années à Yale dans les années 10 jusqu'à son apogée durant les années 40.
Molly and Me (1945)
, 1h16Directed by Lewis Seiler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Monty Woolley, Gracie Fields, Reginald Gardiner, Roddy McDowall, Natalie Schafer, Edith Barrett
Roles John Graham
Rating68%
In 1937 London, struggling vaudeville actress Molly Barry (Gracie Fields) grows tired of the hopeless search for acting roles and instead applies for a job as housekeeper for upper class gentleman John Graham (Monty Woolley). She informs her friends and fellow actors, Lily (Queenie Leonard) and Julia (Edith Barrett), at the boardinghouse where she lives about her plans, but since she does not have any housekeeping references, she convinces former exotic dancer, Kitty Goode (Natalie Schafer), who has married into the peerage and become Lady Burroughs, to act as a fake reference.
Since You Went Away (1944)
, 2h57Directed by Edward F. Cline, John Cromwell, Tay Garnett, David Selznick
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Shirley Temple, Joseph Cotten, Monty Woolley, Lionel Barrymore
Roles Colonel William G. Smollett
Rating74%
Anne Hilton (Claudette Colbert) is an upper-middle-class housewife living in a Midwestern town near a military base with her two teenage daughters, Jane (Jennifer Jones) and Bridget "Brig" (Shirley Temple). Anne's beloved husband Tim Hilton - seen only in photographs - is the father of Jane and Brig, has volunteered for U.S. Army service in World War II. As the film begins in January 1943, Anne has just returned from seeing her husband off to Camp Claiborne, and she and her daughters must adjust to the absence of Tim and make other sacrifices for the war effort, including food rationing; planting a victory garden; giving up the services of their loyal maid Fidelia (Hattie McDaniel) who nevertheless offers to continue working part time for the Hiltons while foregoing wages; and taking in a boarder, the curmudgeonly retired Colonel Smollett (Monty Woolley). When the Hiltons travel by train in a failed attempt to see Tim one last time before he ships out, they encounter or travel with many other people whose lives have been affected by the war, and they end up not getting to see Tim because their train is delayed to allow a defense supply train to go through first. In contrast, the Hiltons' socialite neighbor Emily Hawkins (Agnes Moorehead) complains about the inconveniences caused by the war and engages in unsupportive behaviors such as hoarding food and criticizing the Hiltons' efforts.
Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944)
, 1h30Directed by Gregory Ratoff
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Monty Woolley, June Haver, Dick Haymes, Anthony Quinn, Veda Ann Borg, Clarence Kolb
Roles Edgar Brawley
Rating60%
Holy Matrimony (1943)
, 1h27Directed by John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Monty Woolley, Gracie Fields, Laird Cregar, Una O'Connor, Alan Mowbray, Whit Bissell
Roles Priam Farll
Rating71%
Priam Farll (Monty Woolley) is a famous English painter and recluse who has been living in various isolated places around the world with only his valet of 25 years, Henry Leek (Eric Blore), for company. In 1905, Farll reluctantly travels to London to be knighted. Upon their arrival, however, Leek becomes very ill. Farll summons Dr. Caswell (Melville Cooper), but Leek succumbs to double pneumonia. The doctor mistakenly assumes it is Farll who has died, and the publicity-hating artist is only too glad to assume Leek's identity.
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
, 1h52Directed by William Keighley
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Monty Woolley, Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Jimmy Durante, Richard Travis, Billie Burke
Roles Sheridan Whiteside
Rating74%
During a cross-country lecture tour, notoriously acerbic radio personality Sheridan Whiteside (Monty Woolley) slips on the icy steps of the house of the Stanleys (Grant Mitchell and Billie Burke), a prominent Ohio family, and insists on recuperating in their home during the Christmas holidays. The overbearing, self-centered celebrity soon comes to dominate the lives of the residents and everyone else who enters the household. He encourages young adults Richard (Russell Arms) and June (Elisabeth Fraser) Stanley to pursue their dreams, much to the dismay of their conventional father Ernest.
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942)
, 1h25Directed by Irving Pichel
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about television, Films based on plays
Actors Monty Woolley, Sara Allgood, Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Melville Cooper, J. Edward Bromberg
Roles Madden Thomas
Rating61%
New York actor Thomas Madden has fallen from grace due to alcoholism and manages to get fired from his job as Santa Claus in a department store on Christmas Eve. This puts both him and his sweet young daughter Kathi on the spot. Kathi is physically challenged with a paralyzed foot.
The Pied Piper (1942)
, 1h27Directed by Irving Pichel, Percy Stow
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films, Children's films
Actors Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Anne Baxter, Otto Preminger, J. Carrol Naish, Jill Esmond
Roles John Sidney Howard
Rating69%
Un professeur anglais, réfugié dans le Sud de la France, organise la fuite de plusieurs enfants au moment de l'invasion allemande…
Midnight (1939)
, 1h34Directed by Mitchell Leisen, Hal Walker
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Francis Lederer, Hedda Hopper
Roles The Judge
Rating77%
American showgirl Eve Peabody (Claudette Colbert) arrives in Paris on a train from Monte Carlo during a rainstorm wearing an elegant evening dress. With no money and no place to stay, she arranges a deal with a soft-hearted Hungarian taxi driver named Tibor Czerny (Don Ameche), who agrees to drive her around to the city's nightclubs looking for a job in exchange for her doubling his fare. After an unsuccessful search, Tibor buys her dinner at a café and offers to let her stay overnight at his apartment while he finishes his night shift. While attracted to Tibor, she decides not to get involved with a poor taxi driver, and when he stops for gas, she slips away.
Man About Town (1939)
, 1h25Directed by Mark Sandrich
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jack Benny, Edward Arnold, Dorothy Lamour, Binnie Barnes, Monty Woolley, Isabel Jeans
Roles Henri Dubois
Rating64%