A close friend of Cole Porter at Yale, actor Monty Woolley began acting in 1936. His first credited film role came a year later in Live, Love and Learn. His breakthrough film role was the curmudgeonly and conniving Sheridan Whiteside in The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942), a role he perfected on Broadway starting in 1939 and then in Hollywood.
In 1951, he …
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