Dorothy Parker Humor Each Loved and Feared
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There are lots of sorts of humor: slapstick, situational, grim, self-deprecating, silly, significant, raw, light hearted, visual, plays on words and rhymes, and on and on. The one issue that most humor has in common is 'the unexpected'. Dorothy Parker's humor was absolutely the unexpected. She played off of every single cat situation and stated or wrote exactly what she was 'thinking' - specifically if it was 'out from the box' of social propriety. Her words have been fast, biting and unexpected - eliciting genuine laughter, and maybe nervous laughter as well.
Dorothy grew up at a time when young ladies were expected to become seen rather than heard. She enjoyed difficult authority by speaking out - at instances inappropriately - to obtain laughs from her fellow schoolmates. Although entertaining her close friends, she would problems the nuns within the private college she attended by saying plays on words like, the "Immaculate Conception" was a "Spontaneous Combustion." For this she was asked to leave the Convent on the Blessed Sacrament on West 79th Street in New York City.
By the time Dorothy Parker sold her very first verse to Vanity Fair magazine in 1914, she was each quick witted and fearless. Her talent for humor was recognized and appreciated by Vanity Fair, hence she was chosen to fill in for their very own humor writer P.G. Wodehouse when he was on trip - rather massive shoes to fill for this petite and by burgeoning feminist beauty.
Dorothy quickly wrote theatrical play reviews for Vanity Fair and became rather well-liked with her readers; whilst ultimately feared by Broadway producers. Her cutting remarks could devastate the accomplishment of a meticulously and pricey mounted play. She once wrote that a actress "... ran the gamut of emotions from A to B." No aspect of a production was safe from her clever and cutting words: from dialogue to casting to wardrobe. In certainly one of her evaluations Dorothy observed, "She wore as actually a horrible dress as I've ever noticed on the American stage. Had she not been strangled inside the Second Act, I really should have produced my approach to the stage and completed her in myself."
With stress mounting from Broadway producers, Vanity Fair terminated Dorothy Parker's employment. Vanity Fair writers and fellow members in the Algonquin Round Table, Robert Benchley and Robert Sherwood, quit in protest - a correct act of loyalty for their eventual lifelong pal. Dorothy's termination from Vanity Fair was a blessing in disguise. She was hired to write for a newly created magazine titled, The New Yorker and at some point enjoyed a thriving profession as a writer of several hundred poems, books, plays, articles, music and screenplays. She became a two time Academy Award nominated screenwriter in Hollywood - and was heralded by fans and friends who both feared and adored her.
Dorothy Parker's spontaneous humor and the capability to speak her mind, carried over to her individual life. She will be type to someone's face, then wait for them to leave the space and say cutting remarks. Dorothy's husband Allan Campbell was usually the brunt of her humor - as well as close friends who knew and loved her - and yes feared her at the same time. One could say that Dorothy Parker was the Don Rickles of her day - a well known contemporary comedian who, each loved and feared, enjoys getting laughs at others' expense.
