MONTY "THE BEARD" WOOLLEY - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED CO-SIGNED BY: DONALD WOODS - HFSID 101951

MONTY WOOLLEY, CO-SIGNED BY: DONALD WOODS
Yellow album leaf signed "Good Luck" by Woods and "with best wishes" by Woolley
Autograph note signed: "Good Luck/Sally from-/Donald Woods" and, on verso, "To Sally/with best wishes/Monty Woolley". 5¾x4¼ album leaf with two rounded corners. MONTY WOOLLEY (1888-1963, born Edgar Montillion Wooley in New York City) was an Oscar-nominated American actor and stage director. Woolley was born into privilege at the New York City's Bristol Hotel - which his father owned - and grew up with the glitterati of his age. He became president of the Yale Dramatic Association and later, after serving as an intelligence officer in France during World War I, commandeered the Yale Experimental Theatre until 1927. Cole Porter, one of his high-placed friends, helped him break into professional theatre as a stage director. He had 10 Broadway credits, mostly as a director, between 1929 and 1941. Woolley got onto the big screen with an un-credited role in Ladies in Love (1936) and went on to appear in over 30 movies and TV shows. Woolley was known as "The Beard" for his full beard, which emphasized his intellectualism and easily typecast him. Among his most memorable performances were as the bombastic and authoritarian Sheridan Whiteside in the Broadway production The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939-1941, 739 performances) and its 1941 film adaptation. But he could also display great depth, as shown by his Oscar-nominated performances in The Pied Piper (1942) and Since You Went Away (1944). DONALD WOODS (1906-1998, born Ralph Zink in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada) was an American stage and film actor with over 120 films and TV shows to his credit between 1928, with an un-credited appearance in Motorboat Mamas, and 1976. Most of his films were B-movies, such as Charlie Chan on Broadway (1937) and The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953). But there were exceptions, including The Story of Louis Pasteur(1936), Watch on the Rhine (1943) and The Bridge of San Luis Rey and third billing in Anthony Adverse (1936). His TV appearances include the titular role in Craig Kennedy, Criminologist (1952). Lightly toned, soiled and rippled. Pinholes on one edge from album binding. Otherwise in fine condition.