Word: sheridan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What is Tufts?", Miss Lake's comment as reported by the United Press, was: "When Robert Benchley said he could get me some wonderful publicity in the Harvard Lampoon, now that his son was editor, I didn't believe it. But he certainly came through." Lampy bestowed Ann Sheridan the distinction of being least likely to succeed, and Hollywood immediately flooded the nation's presses with actress' alleged scathing remarks...
Earlier this year, Harvard's literary magazine, the Advocate, named Miss Sheridan an honorary editor...
...mischief-making despot fills the house with Chinese, penguins, an octopus, a mummy case, etc. He informs his nurse that she "has the touch of a love-starved cobra" regards his physician as the "greatest living argument for mercy killing"; warns his favorite wayward actress (Ann Sheridan), who arrives to pay her respects, not to "try to pull the bedclothes over my eyes"; dismisses his secretary as a "flea-bitten Cleopatra...
Although there is hardly room for the rest of the cast to sandwich in much of a performance between this fattest of fat parts, Bette Davis, hair up, neuroses gone, is excellent as Woolley's lovesick secretary. Miss Sheridan, without benefit of any noticeable direction, looks as lovely, acts as badly as usual. Jimmy Durante, as himself; Billie Burke and Grant Mitchell, as the insulted and injured hosts; Reginald Gardiner, as Noel Coward, are tops...
...much the possession of Monty Woolley that even its authors' right to a share in it seems questionable. Possessor of the most Edwardian visage of his era, bon vivant, trust-funder, darling of Manhattan's cafe society, onetime Yale English instructor, 53-year-old Actor Woolley plays Sheridan Whiteside with such vast authority and competence that it is difficult to imagine anyone else attempting it. As one of his intimates has remarked: "At last the old party has got the role he's been rehearsing for all his life...