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First Name

Dorothy

Last Name

Parker (I)

Height

Build

Average

Place of Birth

Long Branch, New Jersey

Star Sign

Leo

Date of Death

07 June 1967

Place of Death

New York City, New York

Cause of Death

Heart Attack

Ethnicity

White

Hair Color

Brown - Dark

Religion

Jewish

Claim to Fame

A Star Is Born

Nationality

American

Gender

Female

Wikipedia Text

Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 � June 7, 1967) was an American poet and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles.

Couple Profile

Dorothy Rothschild was born on August 22, l893 into a family of comfortable financial means. Raised by her father and Stepmother after her mother`s death, she was given an excellent education for the times. Highly intelligent, she pursued a career after her formal education and proved herself to be one of the early feminists. She started writing poems early and her witty remarks are still alive today. In 1917 she was asked to join the staff at Vanity Fair magazine and to marry Edward Pond Parker II, both of which she agreed to gladly. Eddie Parker soon was stationed overseas and Dorothy became one of the founding members of the Algonquin Hotel "Round Table". Eddie arrived back from the war with an unfortunate drinking problem, and Dorothy decided she loved her new life more than she did him. They were separated far more than together and divorced in 1928. She spent a very dramatic period of time in New York City, doing theater reviews, spending time with her Algonquin friends, drinking far too much. She published poems and short stories and in 1929 won the national O. Henry Prize for the short story "Big Blonde". This established her as a serious writer. She married Alan Campbell when she was forty and he was twenty-nine. He encouraged her to go Hollywood where they became a very successful screenwriting team. Beginning in 1933 they received screen credits for fifteen films, most notably A Star Is Born (1937) which was nominated for an Academy Award. The time spent in Hollywood were the most lucrative years of her career, yet she spent every dime of it. She divorced and remarried Alan Campbell and in 1963 he died. She spent her last years in New York City, in very poor health due to heavy drinking and making do on very little money. Often, she would have to call on friends like Lillian Hellman to help her financially. Dorothy Parker died in 1967 at seventy-three years old in her New York hotel room, all alone. Time magazine devoted an entire page to her obituary, which was considered an amazing tribute. Her estate was left in full to Martin Luther King and the NAACP.

Couple Profile Source

www.imdb.com/name/nm0662213/bio

Full Name at Birth

Dorothy Rothschild

Count - Awards

Friend

Lillian Hellman, John Gilbert, Truman Capote, Robert Benchley, Robert Sherwood, George S. Kaufman

Portrayed In

Julia [1977], Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle [1994], Dash and Lilly [1999]

Date of Birth

1893-08-22

Age