Who is Dorothy Parker?
Dorothy Parker was an American author and critic famous for her caustic wit. She was one of the founding members of the Algonquin Round Table, a regular meeting of writers and actors at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City. Though Dorothy Parker is perhaps best known for her one-liners, she published numerous volumes of poetry and short stories, many inspired by her cynical outlook on life. Dorothy Parker was born Dorothy Rothschild in Long Branch, New Jersey on 22 August 1893, but she grew up on the Upper West Side in Manhattan. She became familiar with tragedy at a young age. Her mother died in 1898, when Dorothy Parker was almost five years old, and her stepmother died four years later. Dorothy Parker attended a Catholic elementary school, and later a finishing school in New Jersey, which she left at the age of 13. Dorothy Parker’s father died when she was 19 years old. In 1917, Dorothy Parker married Edwin Pond Parker II, a broker on Wall Street, but he went into service in World W
From a revue of ‘Thoroughly Modern Millie’ – The multiple plot strands are adeptly juggled by director Michael Mayer who has added numerous campy touches like bringing in a creatively blocked George Gershwin (Noah Racey) and Dorothy Parker (Julie Connors) as the foil for a social faux pas by Millie. The central figure around whom all the plot complications swirl is Millie Dillmount (Sutton Foster).
