Dorothy Parker and the Vicious Circle: A Birthday Tribute

Yesterday, August 22nd, Dorothy "Dotty" Rothschild Parker (1893-1967) would have been 119 years old. For a woman who tried to commit suicide as many times as she did, it is a wonder that she lived into her seventies. Although Parker is most well known as a wit, theatre critic, poet, and short story writer, she also made some contributions to the Hollywood scene, writing such screenplays as A STOR IS BORN (1937 AND 1954), SABOTEUR (1942), and some dialogue for THE LITTLE FOXES (1941), so I believe she deserves a mention here. And despite the fact that she once said that Katharine Hepburn "runs the gamut of emotions from A to B," she still happens to be one of my favorite 20th century women.