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...Died. Edgar Montillion Woolley, 74, onetime Yale drama professor whose magnificent white beard ("the historic trademark of genius") and outrageously imperial mien made him the perfect Man Who Came to Dinner, a role he first played on Broadway in 1939, continued on stage, screen, TV and in private for the rest of his life; of kidney and heart ailments; in Albany...
...mines, timberland) bequest from a grandfather, plunged into post-war international society at its gaudiest. The Porters' Paris ménage had a room done up in platinum; their Venetian palazzo, once inhabited by the Brownings, was the scene of fabulous parties featuring Porter's crony Edgar Montillion (Monty) Woolley. Porter invented an American couple named Fitch and stuffed the society columns with accounts of their European triumphs. At one point Elsa Maxwell got her licks in by announcing that Mr. Fitch had left Porter's party for hers. During these years Porter wrote many...
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