Monty Woolley
Monty Woolley ( born August 17, 1888 in New York City, New York, † May 6, 1963 in Albany, New York; actually Edgar Montillion Woolley ) was an American film and theater actor.
Life
Monty Woolley grew up as the son of a hotelier - his father was the owner of the Marie Antoinette Hotel - on Broadway, and had therefore already at a young age to the then High Society. Due to the property of his parents enjoyed Woolley also a high school education, including the universities of Yale and Harvard. As a young man Woolley began at Yale as a professor of English Language to work, and also taught Thornton Wilder and Stephen Vincent Benet.
Woolley was early to his homosexuality and had with the U.S. actor and musician Cole Porter an intimate relationship. Also a relationship with Clifton Webb, another gay actor, he was accused of. Through these contacts, Woolley could get first theater roles on Broadway, so Fifty Million Frenchmen in 1929 and 1935 in the pieces Jubilee and The New Yorker. In 1936, at the age of 48 years, Woolley was in the film comedy Ladies in Love for the first time in a small supporting role in front of the camera.
Woolley's film career spanned a period of 20 years, and included only 33 films. Nevertheless succeeded Woolley to be ever again nominated for an Oscar in 1943 and 1945. For one, it was the film of the novel, The Pied Piper, for which Woolley was nominated in the category for Best Actor. In 1944 he stood for the film drama as you say goodbye Took front of the camera, and in 1945 it was considered in the category of Best Supporting Actor with another nomination. Parallel to his work in film Woolley could also be obtained for radio productions as speaker.
Woolley died at the age of 74 from kidney and heart failure.
He dedicated a star on the Walk of Fame.