My First Hundred Years in Show Business: A Memoir (32 page)

W
EISSLER
, F
RAN
& B
ARRY
– husband-and-wife producing team. Revivals of
Chicago, Annie Get Your Gun, La Cage aux Folles.

W
EYMOUTH
, L
ALLY
– American journalist, Senior Associate Editor of the
Washington Post.

W
IDDOES
, K
ATHLEEN
– stage, film, television actress, N.Y. Shakespeare Festival star.
Much Ado About Nothing, Franny’s Way
(Lortel Award). Films,
The Group, The Seagull, Savages.

W
ILDER
, B
ILLY
– filmmaker, screenwriter, producer. Career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films,
The Seven Year Itch, Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, The Apartment.

W
ILDER
, T
HORNTON
– playwright and novelist, winner of three Pulitzer Prizes – one for the novel,
The Bridge of San Luis Rey,
two for plays,
Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth
.

W
ILLIAMS
, E
STHER
– swimming actress, star of MGM “aquamusicals.”

W
ILLIAMS
, T
ENNESSEE
– playwright,
The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

W
ILSON
, E
LIZABETH
– actress, stage and film. Stage,
Picnic, Sticks and Bones (Tony), Threepenny Opera, Morning’s at Seven
and
A Delicate Balance.
Film,
The Goddess, The Birds, The Graduate, Catch-22, Nine to Five, Addams Family, Quiz Show.

W
INDSOR
, D
UKE AND
D
UCHESS OF
– former King of England, abdicated throne to marry American divorcée.

W
RAY
, F
AY
– film actress,
King Kong.

W
RIGHT
, D
OUG
– playwright,
I Am My Own Wife
(Pulitzer Prize)
, Grey Gardens, The Little Mermaid, Hands on a Hard Body, Quills
(play and film).

Thanks to John Bowers, Mark Hampton, Vangeli Kaseluris, Susan Krawitz, Duncan Maginnis, Dennis McCarthy, Ron Nyswaner, John Seidman, Laura Shaine, Nina Shengold, Zack Sklar, Mark St. Germain, and Carl Walker.

Mary Louise Wilson
has acted on and off Broadway and in films and TV for nearly fifty years. Roles include Letitia Primrose in
On the Twentieth Century
on Broadway with Kristin Chenoweth and Peter Gallagher, Vera Joseph in
4000 Miles
at Lincoln Center (Obie Award), Big Edie in
Grey Gardens
(Tony Award), Fraulein Schneider in
Cabaret
(Tony nomination), and Diana Vreeland in
Full Gallop
(Drama Desk Award), which she co-authored with Mark Hampton. Her writing has appeared in
The New Yorker
and
The New York Times
and she teaches acting at Tulane. She’s the subject of the documentary,
She’s The Best Thing In It
, directed by Academy Award-winner Ron Nyswaner. She lives in upstate New York.

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