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- Birth nameAlexander Humphreys Woollcott
- Alexander Woollcott was born on January 19, 1887 in Phalanx, New Jersey, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for The Man with Two Faces (1934), The Dark Tower (1943) and Bobbed Hair (1925). He died on January 23, 1943 in New York City, New York, USA.
- "Sheridan Whiteside," the lead character of the Moss Hart/George S. Kaufman play (and later film) The Man Who Came to Dinner, was based on Woolcott, an old friend of Hart and Kaufman.
- Credited with inventing the drink "Brandy Alexander".
- Died while participating in an on-air round-table discussion on the war with Germany.
- Theatre critic for the New York Times.
- Doyen of the Algonquin Round Table. Godfather to Sheridan Morley, elder son of Robert Morley.
- All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening.
- A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.
- I do not know whether George Gershwin was born into this world to write rhythms for Fred Astaire's feet or whether Fred Astaire was born into this world to show how the Gershwin music should really be danced. But surely they were written in the same key, these two.
- [on Harpo Marx] A genius, with a fine sense of double-entry bookkeeping.
- [on the Gershwin brothers] Care must be taken to see that all the wreaths addressed to [George] do not go to the composer, for it is his elder brother Ira who writes the lyrics which helped George Gershwin's tunes in their journey across the land.
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