Editing Monty Woolley (section)

==Personal life==
Woolley and [[Cole Porter]] enjoyed many adventures together in New York and on foreign travels, although Porter reportedly disapproved of Woolley taking a black man as his lover.<ref name=colebio>{{cite book
 |title=Cole Porter: A Biography
 |last=Schwartz |first=Charles
 |year=1979
 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/coleporterbiogra00schw/page/38 38], 49, 111 & etc.
 |publisher=[[Da Capo Press]]
 |isbn=0-306-80097-7
 |url=https://archive.org/details/coleporterbiogra00schw
|url-access=registration
 |quote=woolley.
 }}</ref>
Woolley has been described in scholarly and other works as gay and [[closeted]].<ref>{{cite book
 |title=The Gay and Lesbian Theatrical Legacy: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures in American Stage History in the Pre-Stonewall Era (Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance)
 |editor1=Harbin, Billy J. |editor2=Marra, Kim |editor3=Schanke, Robert A.
 |pages=11, 321, 393
 |year=2005
 |publisher=[[University of Michigan Press]]
 |isbn= 978-0-472-09858-3
 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zeaFlyP8-CwC&pg=PP11
}}</ref><ref>{{cite book
 |title=The Lavender Screen: The Gay and Lesbian Films--Their Stars, Makers, Characters, and Critics
 |first=Boze |last=Hadleigh
 |year= 2001
 |publisher=[[Citadel Press]]
 |page=213
 |isbn=978-0-8065-2199-2
 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H7u2PmlUDpwC&pg=PA213
}}</ref><ref>{{cite book
 |title=The Columbia Reader on Lesbians & Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics
 |editor1=Gross, Larry |editor2=Woods, James D.
 |publisher=[[Columbia University Press]]
 |year=1999
 |isbn=978-0-231-10447-0
 |page=310
 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bjeJCGF5OiUC&pg=PA310
}}</ref>

Starting in 1939, Woolley was living with a gay companion, Cary Abbott, who had also graduated from Yale in 1911. Abbott was discreetly identified publicly as Woolley's "courier-secretary-traveling companion." In 1942, Woolley and Abbott moved into a house in [[Saratoga Springs]], where they lived together until Abbott's death, at age 58, from lung cancer, in 1948.<ref>{{cite book
 |title=The Gay and Lesbian Theatrical Legacy: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures in American Stage History in the Pre-Stonewall Era (Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance)
 |editor1=Harbin, Billy J. |editor2=Marra, Kim |editor3=Schanke, Robert A.
 |pages=393–394
 |year=2005
 |publisher=[[University of Michigan Press]]
 |isbn= 978-0-472-09858-3
 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zeaFlyP8-CwC&pg=PP11
}}</ref>

According to [[Bennett Cerf]] in his 1944 book ''[[Try and Stop Me (book)|Try and Stop Me]],'' Woolley was at a dinner party and suddenly [[belch]]ed. A woman sitting nearby glared at him; he glared back and said, "And what did you expect, my good woman?  Chimes?" Cerf wrote, "Woolley was so pleased with this line that he insisted it be written into his next role in Hollywood."<ref name="Cerf"/><ref>Cerf, [https://archive.org/details/trystopmecollect00cerf <!-- quote=my good woman. --> p. 57]. (remainder of quote).</ref>

In 1943, [[Alfred Hitchcock]] wrote a mystery story for ''Look'' titled "The Murder of Monty Woolley."<ref>{{cite book| title=Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection: From Sleuths to Superheroes |first= Mitzi M. |last=Brunsdale |year=2010 |page=440|publisher=Greenwood |isbn=978-0313345302 |volume=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p2zTtMxkExgC&pg=PA442}}</ref>

Woolley was portrayed by [[Allan Corduner]] in the 2004 biopic of Cole Porter, ''[[De-Lovely]]''.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20040702%2FREVIEWS%2F407020314%2F1023 | work=Chicago Sun-Times | title=De-Lovely | access-date=July 12, 2010 | archive-date=July 22, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722130150/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20040702%2FREVIEWS%2F407020314%2F1023 | url-status=dead }}</ref>