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Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker was an American poet, literary critic and writer of fiction. Based in New York, she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.
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culture · American poet, writer, critic (1893–1967) · columnist · poet · screenwriter · writer · literary critic · journalist · songwriter · dialogue writer · also Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Rothschild, Dot Rothschild, Dottie Rothschild, Parker
Born 22 August 1893 · Died 7 June 1967 · Q270707
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
American Enterprise Institute: Dorothy Parker’s Hollywood Years, in Focus
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In the television show “Only Murders In The Building,” a character played by Christoph Waltz claims that Dorothy Parker took his virginity
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2024· 3 entries
The Washington Post: The heartbreak behind Dorothy Parker’s wit
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Town & Country: Dorothy Parker Was the Toast of New York City. Then She Moved Into Hollywood's Most Infamous Hotel.
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Wall Street Journal: ‘Dorothy Parker in Hollywood’ Review: Sharp Tongue, Restless Spirit
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2021· 1 entry
Her book Men I'm Not Married To was adapted as an opera of the same name by composer Lisa DeSpain and librettist Rachel J
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2020· 1 entry
Parker was re-buried privately in Woodlawn, with the possibility of a more public ceremony later
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2018· 1 entry
American drag queen Miz Cracker played Parker in the celebrity-impersonation game show episode of the Season 10 of Rupaul's Drag Race
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2014· 4 entries
Awarded New Jersey Hall of Fame (2014).
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Chicago jazz bassist/singer/composer Katie Ernst issued her album Little Words, consisting of her authorized settings of seven of Parker's poems
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By Canadian singer Myriam Gendron to create a folk album of the same title
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Parker was elected to the New Jersey Hall of Fame
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2009· 2 entries
“s Last Call in 2009 in Tucson, Arizona, presented by the Winding Road Theater Ensemble. She reprised the role at the Live Theatre Workshop in Tucson in 2014. The play was selected to be part of the Capital Fringe Festival in DC in 2010. In 2018, American drag queen Miz Cracker played Parker in the celebrity-impersonation game show episode of the Season 10 of Rupaul”
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In Tucson, Arizona, presented by the Winding Road Theater Ensemble
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2005· 1 entry
And a bronze plaque marks the former site of her family house
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1996· 1 entry
The hotel was designated as a National Literary Landmark by the Friends of Libraries USA, based on the contributions of Parker and other members of the Round Table
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1992· 1 entry
The 99th anniversary of Parker's birth, the United States Postal Service issued a 29¢ U
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1988· 1 entry
O'Dwyer brought this to public attention, with the aid of celebrity columnist Liz Smith; after some discussion, the NAACP claimed Parker's remains and designed a memorial garden for them outside its Baltimore headquarter
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1982· 1 entry
Anni-Frid Lyngstad recorded "Threnody", set to music by Per Gessle, for her third solo album Something's Going On, after she offered him a book of poems by Dorothy Parker
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1973· 2 entries
When a revised and enlarged edition of the book was released, the "Publishers' Note" stated that of the 75 volumes in the Viking Portable Library series, Dorothy Parker was one of three—along with Shakespeare and The Wor
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The crematorium sent them to her lawyer's office; by then he had retired, and the ashes remained in his colleague Paul O'Dwyer's filing cabinet for about 17 years
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1970· 1 entry
In a collection titled Constant Reader, and then anthologized again in 2024
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1967· 10 entries
Died 1967-06-07.
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“All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.”
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“It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.”
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“That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say No in any of them.”
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“Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.”
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“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity”
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“One more drink and I'd have been under the host.”
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“It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence—no first draft. I can't write five words but that I change seven.”
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“There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
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“[On being told of Calvin Coolidge's death] How do they know? (Coolidge was known as a man who said very few words.)”
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1961· 1 entry
Reconciled once more with Campbell, and collaborated with him on a number of unproduced projects until Campbell died from a drug overdose in 1963
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1950· 1 entry
Was identified as a Communist by the anti-Communist publication Red Channels
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1947· 1 entry
Remarried in 1950, and then separated again in 1952 when she moved back to New York
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1937· 1 entry
On the Loyalist cause in Spain for the Communist magazine New Masses
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1936· 1 entry
Which the FBI suspected of being a Communist Party front
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1935· 1 entry
Parker contributed lyrics for the song "I Wished on the Moon", with music by Ralph Rainger
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1933· 1 entry
When informed that famously taciturn former president Calvin Coolidge had died, Parker remarked, "How could they tell
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1932· 2 entries
Met Alan Campbell, an actor hoping to become a screenwriter
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And, despite a rocky start (Perelman called it "a scarifying ordeal"), they remained friends for the next 35 years
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1929· 1 entry
Awarded O. Henry Award (1929).
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1927· 1 entry
When she grew concerned about the pending executions of Sacco and Vanzetti
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1925· 2 entries
And Parker wrote drama reviews for the first two issues
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Parker and Benchley were part of a board of editors he established to allay the concerns of his investors
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1920· 1 entry
After her criticisms had too often offended the playwright–producer David Belasco, the actress Billie Burke, the impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, and others
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1919· 1 entry
And the couple divorced in 1927, with Edwin marrying a woman nine years his senior immediately after the divorce
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1918· 1 entry
While she was writing theater criticism for Vanity Fair, filling in for the vacationing P
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1914· 1 entry
And some months later was hired as an editorial assistant for Vogue
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1913· 1 entry
Played piano at a dancing school to earn a living while she worked on her poetry
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1900· 1 entry
Her father married Eleanor Frances Lewis (1851–1903), a Protestant
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1893· 3 entries
Born 1893-08-22.
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“t be at all surprised. Brevity is the soul of lingerie. Caption written for Vogue 1916 Katharine Hepburn delivered a striking performance that ran the gamut of emotions, from A to B. Woollcott writes in While Rome Burns that Parker had”
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The youngest of four children of Jacob Henry Rothschild and his wife Elizabeth Annie (née Marston) (1851–1898), at 732 Ocean Avenue in Long Branch, New Jersey
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1865· 1 entry
Who perished in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912
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