Sampson Jacob Rothschild was a merchant who immigrated to the USA around 1846, settling in Monroe County, Alabama.
William Henry Theobald; and the youngest, Martin Rothschild, born in Manhattan on December 12, 1865, who perished in the sinking of the Titanic.
Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York; she was best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary works published in such magazines as The New Yorker and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table.
Some of her works have been set to music; adaptations notably include the operatic song cycle Hate Songs by composer Marcus Paus. == Early life and education == Also known as Dot or Dottie, Parker was born Dorothy Rothschild in 1893 to Jacob Henry Rothschild and his wife Eliza Annie (née Marston) (1851–1898) at 732 Ocean Avenue in Long Branch, New Jersey.
Her mother died in Manhattan in July 1898, a month before Parker's fifth birthday. Her father remarried in 1900 to Eleanor Frances Lewis (1851–1903).
Her mother died in Manhattan in July 1898, a month before Parker's fifth birthday. Her father remarried in 1900 to Eleanor Frances Lewis (1851–1903).
(Mercedes de Acosta was a classmate.) Parker once joked that she was asked to leave following her characterization of the Immaculate Conception as "spontaneous combustion." Her stepmother died in 1903, when Parker was nine.
She graduated from Miss Dana's School in 1911, at the age of 18, according to Authur, although Rhonda Pettit and Marion Meade state she never graduated from either school.
Following her father's death in 1913, she played piano at a dancing school to earn a living while she worked on her poetry. She sold her first poem to Vanity Fair magazine in 1914 and some months later was hired as an editorial assistant for Vogue, another Condé Nast magazine.
Following her father's death in 1913, she played piano at a dancing school to earn a living while she worked on her poetry. She sold her first poem to Vanity Fair magazine in 1914 and some months later was hired as an editorial assistant for Vogue, another Condé Nast magazine.
She moved to Vanity Fair as a staff writer after two years at Vogue. In 1917, she met a Wall Street stockbroker, Edwin Pond Parker II (1893–1933) and they married before he left to serve in World War I with the U.S.
Dorothy Parker retained her married name, though she remarried the screenwriter and former actor Alan Campbell, and moved to Hollywood. == Algonquin Round Table years == Parker's career took off in 1918 while she was writing theater criticism for Vanity Fair, filling in for the vacationing P.
(Sherwood is sometimes reported to have done so as well, but in actuality he had been fired in December 1919.) She soon started working for Ainslee's Magazine, which had a higher circulation.
When the group was informed that famously taciturn former president Calvin Coolidge had died, Parker remarked, "How could they tell?" Parker's caustic wit as a critic initially proved popular, but she was eventually dismissed by Vanity Fair in 1920 after her criticisms too often offended powerful producers.
In the 1920s alone she published some 300 poems and free verses in Vanity Fair, Vogue, "The Conning Tower" and The New Yorker as well as Life, McCall's and The New Republic.
Not So Deep as a Well (1936) collected much of the material previously published in Rope, Gun, and Death and she re-released her fiction with a few new pieces in 1939 under the title Here Lies. She collaborated with playwright Elmer Rice to create Close Harmony, which ran on Broadway in December 1924.
She also published pieces in Vanity Fair, which was happier to publish her than employ her, The Smart Set, and The American Mercury, but also in the popular Ladies’ Home Journal, Saturday Evening Post, and Life. When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, Parker and Benchley were part of a board of editors established by Ross to allay concerns of his investors.
writer, Josephine Van de Grift. Parker published her first volume of poetry, Enough Rope, in 1926.
Her reviews appeared semi-regularly from 1927 to 1933, were widely read, and were later published in a collection under the name Constant Reader in 1970. Her best-known short story, "Big Blonde," published in The Bookman magazine, was awarded the O.
What would become a lifelong commitment to activism began in 1927 when she became concerned about the pending executions of Sacco and Vanzetti.
Dorothy Parker filed for divorce in 1928.
Her short stories, though often witty, were also spare and incisive, and more bittersweet than comic; her style is often described as sardonic. Parker eventually separated from her husband, divorcing in 1928.
Henry Award as the best short story of 1929.
Hers is one of three Portable series, including volumes devoted to William Shakespeare and The Bible, that have remained in continuous print. During the 1930s and 1940s, Parker became an increasingly vocal advocate of civil liberties and civil rights, and a frequent critic of authority figures.
She and fellow Round Tabler Ruth Hale were arrested, and Parker eventually pleaded guilty to a charge of "loitering and sauntering," paying a $5 fine. == Hollywood == In 1932, Parker met Alan Campbell, an actor with aspirations to become a screenwriter.
Perelman at a party in 1932 and, despite a rocky start (Perelman called it "a scarifying ordeal"), they remained friends for the next 35 years.
Her reviews appeared semi-regularly from 1927 to 1933, were widely read, and were later published in a collection under the name Constant Reader in 1970. Her best-known short story, "Big Blonde," published in The Bookman magazine, was awarded the O.
She also was portrayed as "Daisy Lester" in Charles Brackett's 1934 novel Entirely Surrounded.
She and Campbell worked on more than 15 films. In 1935, Parker contributed lyrics for the song "I Wished on the Moon," with music by Ralph Rainger.
She is mentioned in the original introductory lyrics in Cole Porter's song "Just One of Those Things" from the 1935 Broadway musical Jubilee, which have been retained in the standard interpretation of the song as part of the Great American Songbook. Prince released "The Ballad of Dorothy Parker" in 1987 and was the first song recorded in his Chanhassen, MN studio home.
The song was introduced in The Big Broadcast of 1936 by Bing Crosby. With Campbell and Robert Carson, she wrote the script for the 1937 film A Star Is Born, for which they were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing—Screenplay.
She reported in 1937 on the Loyalist cause in Spain for the Communist magazine, 'The New Masses.' At the behest of Otto Katz, a covert Soviet Comintern agent and operative of German Communist Party agent Willi Münzenberg, Parker helped to found the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League in 1936, which the FBI suspected of being a Communist Party front.
The song was introduced in The Big Broadcast of 1936 by Bing Crosby. With Campbell and Robert Carson, she wrote the script for the 1937 film A Star Is Born, for which they were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing—Screenplay.
She reported in 1937 on the Loyalist cause in Spain for the Communist magazine, 'The New Masses.' At the behest of Otto Katz, a covert Soviet Comintern agent and operative of German Communist Party agent Willi Münzenberg, Parker helped to found the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League in 1936, which the FBI suspected of being a Communist Party front.
Not So Deep as a Well (1936) collected much of the material previously published in Rope, Gun, and Death and she re-released her fiction with a few new pieces in 1939 under the title Here Lies. She collaborated with playwright Elmer Rice to create Close Harmony, which ran on Broadway in December 1924.
Hers is one of three Portable series, including volumes devoted to William Shakespeare and The Bible, that have remained in continuous print. During the 1930s and 1940s, Parker became an increasingly vocal advocate of civil liberties and civil rights, and a frequent critic of authority figures.
She wrote additional dialogue for The Little Foxes in 1941.
Somerset Maugham, the volume compiled over two dozen of Parker's short stories, along with selected poems from Enough Rope, Sunset Gun, and Death and Taxes, It was published in the United States in 1944 under the title The Portable Dorothy Parker.
These included "Lily Malone" in Philip Barry's Hotel Universe (1932), "Mary Hilliard" (played by Ruth Gordon) in George Oppenheimer's Here Today (1932), "Paula Wharton" in Gordon's 1944 play Over Twenty-one (directed by George S.
They divorced in 1947, remarried in 1950, then separated in 1952 when Parker moved back to New York.
Her final screenplay was The Fan, a 1949 adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan, directed by Otto Preminger. Her marriage to Campbell was tempestuous, with tensions exacerbated by Parker's increasing alcohol consumption and Campbell's long-term affair with a married woman in Europe during World War II.
They became neighbors when the Perelmans helped Parker and Campbell buy a run-down farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, near New Hope, a popular summer destination among many writers and artists from New York. Parker was listed as a Communist by the publication Red Channels in 1950.
They divorced in 1947, remarried in 1950, then separated in 1952 when Parker moved back to New York.
They divorced in 1947, remarried in 1950, then separated in 1952 when Parker moved back to New York.
From 1957 to 1962, she lived at the Volney Residential Hotel on Manhattan's Upper East Side and wrote book reviews for Esquire magazine.
She returned to Hollywood in 1961, reconciled with Campbell, and collaborated with him on a number of unproduced projects until Campbell died from a drug overdose in 1963. == Later life and death == Following Campbell's death, Parker returned to New York City and the Volney Residential hotel.
From 1957 to 1962, she lived at the Volney Residential Hotel on Manhattan's Upper East Side and wrote book reviews for Esquire magazine.
She returned to Hollywood in 1961, reconciled with Campbell, and collaborated with him on a number of unproduced projects until Campbell died from a drug overdose in 1963. == Later life and death == Following Campbell's death, Parker returned to New York City and the Volney Residential hotel.
Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York; she was best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary works published in such magazines as The New Yorker and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table.
She wrote for the Columbia Workshop, and both Ilka Chase and Tallulah Bankhead used her material for radio monologues. Parker died on June 7, 1967, of a heart attack at the age of 73.
Her reviews appeared semi-regularly from 1927 to 1933, were widely read, and were later published in a collection under the name Constant Reader in 1970. Her best-known short story, "Big Blonde," published in The Bookman magazine, was awarded the O.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970. Marion Meade, Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is This?.
Finally, in 1973, the crematorium sent them to her lawyer's office; by then he had retired, and the ashes remained in the custody of his colleague Paul O'Dwyer's filing cabinet, for approximately 17 years.
The Algonquin Round Table, as well as the number of other literary and theatrical greats who lodged at the hotel, contributed to the Algonquin Hotel being designated in 1987 as a New York City Historic Landmark.
She is mentioned in the original introductory lyrics in Cole Porter's song "Just One of Those Things" from the 1935 Broadway musical Jubilee, which have been retained in the standard interpretation of the song as part of the Great American Songbook. Prince released "The Ballad of Dorothy Parker" in 1987 and was the first song recorded in his Chanhassen, MN studio home.
In 1988, O'Dwyer brought this situation 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 headquarters.
New York: Villard, 1988. S.
"Her legacy means a lot," added representatives from the NAACP. ==Honors== On August 22, 1992, the 99th anniversary of Parker's birth, the United States Postal Service issued a 29¢ U.S.
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1993.
In 1996, 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.
Parker's birthplace at the Jersey Shore was also designated a National Literary Landmark by Friends of Libraries USA in 2005 and a bronze plaque marks the former site of her family house. In 2014, Parker was elected to the New Jersey Hall of Fame. == In popular culture == Parker inspired a number of fictional characters in several plays of her day.
Berkeley, CA: Roaring Forties Press, 2005.
She is the main character in "Love For Miss Dottie", a short story by Larry N Mayer, which was selected by writer Mary Gaitskill for the collection Best New American Voices 2009 (Harcourt). She has been portrayed on film and television by Dolores Sutton in F.
Neuwirth was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance, and Leigh received a number of awards and nominations, including a Golden Globe nomination. Television creator Amy Sherman-Palladino named her production company 'Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions' in tribute to Parker. Tucson actress Lesley Abrams wrote and performed the one-woman show Dorothy Parker's Last Call in 2009 in Tucson, Arizona at the Winding Road Theater Ensemble.
Parker's birthplace at the Jersey Shore was also designated a National Literary Landmark by Friends of Libraries USA in 2005 and a bronze plaque marks the former site of her family house. In 2014, Parker was elected to the New Jersey Hall of Fame. == In popular culture == Parker inspired a number of fictional characters in several plays of her day.
She reprised the role at the Live Theatre Workshop in Tucson in 2014.
Locke as "one of the most engaging works" in recent years; "the cycle expresses Parker's favorite theme: how awful human beings are, especially the male of the species." In 2014, lyrics taken from her book of poetry Not So Deep as a Well were, with the authorization of the NAACP, used by Canadian singer Myriam Gendron to create a folk album of the same name.
The plaque read, In early 2020, the NAACP moved its headquarters to downtown Baltimore and the question about what would happen to Parker's ashes became the topic of much speculation, especially after the NAACP formally announced it would later move to Washington, DC. The NAACP restated that Parker's ashes will ultimately be where her family wishes her to be.
On August 18, 2020, Parker's urn was exhumed.
spoke, and a rabbi who had attended her initial burial said Kaddish." On August 22, 2020, Parker was re-buried privately in Woodlawn, with the possibility of a more public ceremony later.
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