Monty Woolley
Also Known As: Edgar Montillion Wooley, The Beard, Edgar Montillion "Monty" Woolley
Biography: Edgar Montilion "Monty" Woolley (August 17, 1888 – May 6, 1963) was an American actor. At the age of 50, he achieved a measure of stardom for his role in the 1939 stage play The Man Who Came to Dinner and its 1942 film adaptation. Description above from the Wikipedia article Monty Woolley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: August 17, 1888
Age: 136 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 06, 1963
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The Man Who Came to Dinner
Overview: An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-24
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Since You Went Away
Overview: In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-30
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Night and Day
Overview: When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital. He impresses nurse Linda Lee with his creativity, but their budding romance must wait as Cole heads home. Back in New York, he mounts a series of popular shows, and when his work brings him back to Europe, he eventually marries Linda. But success doesn't spare him from marital complications or bad news about a beloved relative.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-02
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The Girl of the Golden West
Overview: A bandit disguises himself as an officer in an attempt to woo a saloon singer.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-18
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As Young as You Feel
Overview: Sixty-five-year-old John Hodges must retire from Acme Printing. He later impersonates the president of the parent company and arrives at his old plant on an inspection tour. Acme president McKinley is so nervous not even his beautiful secretary Harriet can calm him. McKinley's wife Lucille becomes infatuated with Hodges. Many further complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-15
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The Bishop's Wife
Overview: An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-25
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The Pied Piper
Overview: Englishman Mr. Howard is on a fishing holiday in eastern France when the Germans invade in 1940. Setting off to try and get back home he is persuaded to take along the two Cavanaugh children, and as his journey progresses his family keeps growing in size. Once in German-occupied northern France a new problem arises — the risk of being heard speaking English.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-21
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Arsène Lupin Returns
Overview: A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one of the two rivals is none other than Arsène Lupin, the notorious jewel thief everybody thought dead, now living under the assumed name of René Farrand. As for the other suitor he is an American, a former F.B.I. sleuth turned private eye by the name of Steve Emerson. Steve not only suspects Farrand of being Lupin but when someone attempts to steal a precious emerald necklace from Lorraine's uncle, Count de Brissac, he is persuaded Lupin is the culprit. Is Emerson right or wrong? Which of the two men will win over Lorraine's heart?
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-25
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Holy Matrimony
Overview: An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-24
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Live, Love and Learn
Overview: A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can buy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-29
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Irish Eyes Are Smiling
Overview: Climbing to fame, Irish-American composer Ernest R. Ball romances a showgirl, who catches the eye of an underworld character.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-19
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Zaza
Overview: A seductive music hall star falls in love with a married aristocrat.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-29
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Artists and Models Abroad
Overview: Buck Boswell and his all-girl troupe are stranded in Paris, but Buck manages to con the manager of the 'Hotel de Navarre' in furnishing accommodations for his group, but the proprietor's wife locks them out. In his search for funds, Buck meets Patricia Harper, the fourth-richest girl in the world, but he isn't aware of that and thinks she is penniless. Patricia joins his troupe as a lark, and her father, James Harper, also pretends he is broke. Through some chicanery, Buck gets jobs for the girls as models at the Palace of Feminine Arts at the Paris International Exposition. James Harper borrows the priceless Napoleaon necklace to have a copy made for his daughter, but Buck thinks he stole it.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-20
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Man About Town
Overview: Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous; this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-29
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Everybody Sing
Overview: Boisterous teen Judy Bellaire is expelled from her all-female boarding school for convincing her fellow school chorus members to sing a classical piece with a modern swing beat. She returns to her dysfunctional home, dejected, but, with the encouragement of her family's cook, Judy decides to follow her dream and audition for a Broadway musical.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
Overview: Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world, Kathy is delighted to meet fellow tenant Robert. When Madden is offered the lead in a new King Lear and Robert lands a composing job in Hollywood, better times seem for a while to beckon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-09
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Midnight
Overview: An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-24
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Young Dr. Kildare
Overview: A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his knowledge by the hospital's top dog, Dr. Leonard Gillespie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-14
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Miss Tatlock's Millions
Overview: After the accidental death of an idiot heir, a stunt man is hired to impersonate him while the family gathers to determine the dispersment of the estate of Miss Tatlock's millions.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-19
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Never Say Die
Overview: Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her boyfriend Andy Devine, but her father is determined that she marry into royalty. To solve both their problems, Martha Raye and Bob Hope decide to marry, but will they ever find love together?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-08
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Dancing Co-Ed
Overview: After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dance contest to find a new star.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-29
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Honeymoon in Bali
Overview: Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is determined to remain free and independent. Bill proposes, Gail declines and Bill goes home to Bali. But a young girl, Rosie, and Tony the Window Cleaner, who dispels advice on every floor, soon have Gail thinking maybe she was a bit hasty with her no to Bill's proposal. Ere long she discovers that she does love Bill and can't live without him. She goes down to Bali to give him the good news. He learns that he is soon to marry Noel Van Ness. She goes back to New York City.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-29
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Molly and Me
Overview: A vivacious actress needing work becomes a housekeeper for a crusty retired politician, and gives his life the shaking-up that it needs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-25
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Eloise
Overview: It's not so much that Eloise is a mischievous child, but the darnedest things do happen when she's around.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-22
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Nothing Sacred
Overview: When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper columnist turns her into a national heroine.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-25
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The Forgotten Step
Overview: An American art collector, living in France in the 1870s, who loses his fortune in a stock market crash devises a scheme to get back his wealth through insurance fraud with the added consequence of potentially killing hundreds of people. His scheme is to place his art collection aboard a ship, insure the collection far beyond its value, and place a barrel of dynamite with a clock-piece timed to go off when the ship is at sea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-20
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Three Comrades
Overview: A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-02
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Kismet
Overview: A silver-tongued poet and self-proclaimed "King of the Beggars" searches old Baghdad for a rich bachelor to marry his dreamy daughter, Marsinah. Along the way, he poses as the renowned sorcerer Hajj and gets in and out of scrapes with an elderly thief, a dim-witted wazir, and his wife. Meanwhile, his daughter develops feelings for a handsome caliph.
Genres: Music Romance Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-08
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See Your Doctor
Overview: A lecturer tells the audience that it is National Take Care Week. He tells the story of a man who gets stung in his garden and the problems the man has when he seeks treatment at the doctor's office.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-16
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Lord Jeff
Overview: Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops. During a a caper, Geoffrey is caught and is sentenced to a reformatory where young men are trained to be sailors. He is befriended by model in-mate Terry O'Mulvaney but soon starts to get them both in trouble.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-17
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Breakdowns of 1942
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-31
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