Season 30, Day 7 - "Dinner Time"
It's Man week, and today's quiz is inspired by "The Man Who Came to Dinner."
The Man Who Came to Dinner
The Man Who Came to Dinner is a play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. It was one of many collaborations by Kaufman and Hart; notably, the pair won the Pulitzer in 1937 for You Can’t Take It with You. The title character of The Man Who Came to Dinner is a sharp-tongued New York City radio personality named Sheridan Whiteside who is invited to dine at the home of a factory owner in small-town Ohio. As fate would have it, Whiteside slips on a patch of ice before entering, and the resulting injury confines him to the house for an extended period of time. The character was based on and written for Alexander Woollcott, a theater critic and radio star at the time and a member of the Algonquin Round Table with Kaufman. Woollcott was too busy to star in the play on Broadway, so the job fell to white-bearded Monty Woolley. A close friend of Cole Porter (he played himself in the Porter biopic Night and Day), Woolley had found his signature role at age 50; he later starred in the 1942 film adaptation of the same name alongside Bette Davis. The character name of Sheridan Whiteside was used an early nom de plume by Morrissey before he was the frontman of The Smiths.